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Topic: VLC Tutorial

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drling0Jan 16, 2011
 

 
Streaming a show to your hard drive using VLC can be a little "complicated" the first time you do it. However, as with most things practice makes perfect.

Here is a tutorial that showed me how to do it:

http://stream-recorder.com/forum/record-wma-wmv-asf-streaming-mms-rtsp-t4789.html?s=2dfa2fc364a4768765c215cdd5375b34&

The weekly URL for Just a Minute ISIHAC etc is:

mms://wm.bbc.co.uk/wms/radio4fmcoyopa/radio_4_fm_-_monday_1830.wma

This may be useful for folks like me who are outside the UK.

Just a reminder that whichever format you use to save your files it will not improve the original quality of the file that you received. If you receive a low quality wma stream (like me) it will always stay like that. Of course I can make it worse by re-encoding it with a low bitrate.

I hope this is useful to folks.

Love, David

 
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Topic: Re: VLC Tutorial

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Don JudgeJan 18, 2011
 

 

 
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Topic: Re: VLC Tutorial

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drling0Jan 18, 2011
 

 
I am terribly sorry for posting so much about software rather than the show. I am not an expert but for my sins I do teach a couple of multimedia editing classes.

If you have a wma file and want to convert it to mp3 while top and tailing it at the same time may I recommend a free program called File Factory

Open Format Factory

Choose Audio - Select All to MP3

Click Add File

Click Set Range

Set Start Time and End Time

Then Click Okay

Click Output Setting to set the bitrate

This will convert the section of your wma file that you set to an mp3 file. Therefore, you can do the two jobs at the same time.

Again I hope that this helps.

Love, David

--- In just-a-minute@..., Don Judge <don@...> wrote:
>
> Thanks David
>
> I see where I went wrong now - I tried to save it as an MPEG mp3 sound file.
> It obviously cannot do that, I may suggest that as a future upgrade to the
> developers.
>
> Looks like I have to save as WMA and transcode afterwards.
> There are lots of free tools to do this - Google for 'convert wma mp3'--Cheers
>
> Don __o
> -\<,
> ..... O/ O
>
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: drling0 <drling0@...>
> To: just-a-minute@...
> Sent: Monday, 17 January, 2011 1:51:21
> Subject: [just-a-minute] VLC Tutorial
>
>
> Streaming a show to your hard drive using VLC can be a little "complicated" the
> first time you do it. However, as with most things practice makes perfect.
>
> Here is a tutorial that showed me how to do it:
>
> http://stream-recorder.com/forum/record-wma-wmv-asf-streaming-mms-rtsp-t4789.html?s=2dfa2fc364a4768765c215cdd5375b34&
>
>
> The weekly URL for Just a Minute ISIHAC etc is:
>
> mms://wm.bbc.co.uk/wms/radio4fmcoyopa/radio_4_fm_-_monday_1830.wma
>
> This may be useful for folks like me who are outside the UK.
>
> Just a reminder that whichever format you use to save your files it will not
> improve the original quality of the file that you received. If you receive a
> low quality wma stream (like me) it will always stay like that. Of course I can
> make it worse by re-encoding it with a low bitrate.
>
>
> I hope this is useful to folks.
>
> Love, David
>