[sllug-members]: vlc question

[Andrew Johnson]

> > So does mplayer and mplayer does a fine job of ripping streams to files.
> >
> What command line options would you recommend for doing this?
> I did try mplayer once to listen to the stream and it did work.  I did
> hear some strange clicking sounds once in awhile though.

-dumpaudio/-dumpstream/-dumpfile might be what you're looking for.

If not, -ao pcm will get you a .wav file that you can then encode
however you like.

If it's a "live" (that is, unseekable) stream you're trying to record,
you may want to use some -cache too.