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Hi All,
I have been learning about streaming in the last 48 hours. Quite a lot but not enough to solve my problem... I would like to be able to record radio programs from the BBC Radio 3 to my hard drive (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/). The format is irrelevant; what ever you think would provide the best quality. What I am trying to record specifically is:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/networks ... icshow_sat

I tried all options, but being a novice means I don't know enough about to find the answer; hopefully you will.

I followed the Wizard and also tried through the FIle > "Open Network Stream" options to no avail. When I can get a file to be recorded it is blank, no sound.

What am I doing wrong? I am enclosing a past from the Messages Window from my last attempt.

Many thanks in advance.

"main debug: creating new input thread
main debug: set input option: demux to dump
main debug: set input option: demuxdump-file to C:\My Radio\(2005-03-26) Sacred music of Orlandus Lassus.wav
main debug: waiting for thread completion
main debug: `http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/networks ... icshow_sat' gives access `http' demux `' path `www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/networks/radio3 ... icshow_sat'
main debug: demux2_New: access='http' demux='dump' path='www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/networks/radio3 ... icshow_sat'
main debug: looking for access_demux module
main debug: probing 0 candidates
main debug: thread 3500 (input) created at priority 1 (src/input/input.c:228)
main warning: no access_demux module matched "http"
main debug: access2_New: access='http' path='www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/networks/radio3 ... icshow_sat'
main debug: looking for access2 module
main debug: probing 6 candidates
access_http debug: http: server='www.bbc.co.uk' port=80 file='/radio/aod/networks/radio3/aod.shtml?radio3/earlymusicshow_sat
main debug: net: connecting to 'www.bbc.co.uk:80'
main debug: looking for network module
main debug: probing 2 candidates
ipv4 debug: connection in progress
main debug: using network module "ipv4"
main debug: unlocking module "ipv4"
access_http debug: protocol 'HTTP' answer code 206
access_http debug: Server: Apache/2.0.51 (Unix)
access_http debug: stream size=22563
access_http debug: Content-Type: text/html
main debug: using access2 module "access_http"
main debug: pre buffering
main debug: received first data for our buffer
main debug: prebuffering done 6440 bytes in 0s - 55 kbytes/s
main debug: demux2_New: access='http' demux='dump' path='www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/networks/radio3 ... icshow_sat'
main debug: looking for demux2 module
main debug: probing 1 candidate
demuxdump: dumping raw stream to file `C:\My Radio\(2005-03-26) Sacred music of Orlandus Lassus.wav'
main debug: using demux2 module "demuxdump"
main debug: `http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/networks ... icshow_sat' sucessfully opened
main debug: control type=1
main debug: EOF reached
main debug: closing input
demuxdump: closing C:\My Radio\(2005-03-26) Sacred music of Orlandus Lassus.wav (22 Kbytes dumped)
main debug: unlocking module "demuxdump"
main debug: unlocking module "access_http"
main debug: thread 3500 joined (src/input/input.c:290)"

When I tried the link, it looks like it's a Real stream, with Real audio -- proprietary.

Thank you for the reply.
I take it that is it? It cannot be done at all? Not even with another application perhaps?
Thank you.

You can run a program that records whatever is going to your soundcard main output while playing a realaudio or any stream, for instance Audio Playback Recorder from http://www.tongsoft.com will do. There are other ¨stream¨ recorders out there as well.

when you dig into the html source you will find tha the actual stream played is

[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/shows/rp ... ow_sat.rpm[/url]

is that of any help?

i am trying to capture these streams as well, but whatever i get onto my harddrive seems rubbish. so if you've got a tip on that side i'd be glad.[