[ILUG] the mplayer thread revisited

[Frank Duignan]

Sean, all, 
this is my current attempt at solving the problem. The downside is 
that it requires to be run on a logged in workstation that's running X.
#########################
vsound realplay lyric_new.smil &
sleep 30
killall realplay.bin
#########################
vsound grabs the audio output from realplay and dumps it to
a wav file called vsound.wav (this can be converted to mp3 using lame if 
need be)
lyric_new.smil is taken from the rte web site ("save link as" on the listen 
live icon)
The upshot of the above is that about 30 seconds (minus buffering) of audio 
is grabbed.
Scheduling this to run for a particular program should be fairly 
straightforward. 
A text mode version that could be run as a cron job would be much better.
f