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The following work s except that any stream interruption causes VLC to stop even when stream recovers. cvlc -q http://ice41.securenetsystems.net/KFNN --sout=#transcode{vcodec=none,acodec=mp3,ab=32,channels=1,samplerate=44100}:file{mux=mp3,dst=${DIR}${FILENAME} --run-time ${LENGTH} vlc://quit So, I ...

vlc mms://citadelcc-KGO-AM.wm.llnwd.net/citadelcc_KGO_AM --sout '#transcode{ab=32,aenc=vorbis,channels=1}:standard{access=file,mux=ogg,dst="/tmp/brinker.ogg"}' -d The above is my command line which works. It doesn't seem to matter if I use channels=1 or channels=2 I still get stereo report...

I now have the byte count down to 65,000.000 roughly.
I simply dropped the audio bit rate from 128KBPS to 48KBPS.
I would have liked to have taken it down to 24KBPS but VLC
wouldn't deal with that value for some reason.

Thanks to those that responded. I now have it working properly but would have never succeeded without your help. However, here is another mystery. When I used streamripper to record the very same 3 hour program to MP3 the resulting file was around 32,000,000 bytes. VLC recording to an ogg file, whic...

I am using SUSE 10.3 kernel 2.6.22.17-0.1-default #1 SMP VLC media player 0.8.6d Janus Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz Nvidia GeForce 6500 82801G (ICH7 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller I want to record to a file via cron calling a bash script. This has been working for years via streamripper but the...