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Record Live Streaming Radio to MP3

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Sometime you want to record Live Radio Stream to MP3 file, you can find many online linux tools for recording radio stream to server and then download to your local computer. You can use Linux “wget” or “curl” CURL # curl -sS -o stream.mp3 –max-time 150 http://Radio-Server:Port/stream Bitrate: 128 kb/s [it will make approx 2MB … Read more

VLC is not supposed to be run as root. Sorry

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Today I need to install VLC Media player on CentOS 5.x to capture remote live event from VLC client as HTTP stream. So, I have installed that using # yum install vlc But VLC can not be run as root privileged user 🙁 # vlc VLC is not supposed to be run as root. Sorry. … Read more

How to check RTMP source stream is live or not?

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Dear Friends, You can check RTMP Source is live or not using socket programming, but that will not give you exact output. Today I have tried Linux utility “rtmpdump” to test & check RTMP Source it produced quite interesting results on command line…. # rtmpdump -v -r rtmp://giraldatvlivefs.fplive.net/giraldatvlive-live/stream001 -o /tmp/rtmp-checker.log <?php /*  *  * RTMPChecker … Read more

Couldn’t find video filter ‘x264’

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x264 is a free software library for encoding video streams into the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC format. It is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License. x264 itself provides a command line interface as well as a library-level interface. x264 is used to encode video files in mp4, m4v, h.264 (HD) output format. Install … Read more