RTMP: Is there such a linux command line tool?

linux shell command-line utilities rtmp
Abs picture Abs · Jun 21, 2009 · Viewed 30.7k times · Source

I have looked everywhere to find a linux utility that will allow me to download rtmp streams. Not flv video but MP3 streams. The location of the streams I want to download are in this format.

rtmp://live.site.com/loc/45/std_fc74a6b7f79c70a5f60.mp3

Anyone know of such a command line tool? Or even anything close to what I am asking for?

I do not want full software applications and it would be great if it worked on Linux via Shell or something.

Thanks all

Answer

ephemient picture ephemient · Jun 21, 2009

One of the following should do, if you have mplayer or vlc compiled with RTMP access.

mplayer -dumpstream rtmp://live.site.com/loc/45/std_fc74a6b7f79c70a5f60.mp3

This will generate a ./stream.dump.

vlc -I dummy rtmp://live.site.com/loc/45/std_fc74a6b7f79c70a5f60.mp3 \
    --sout file/ts:output.mpg vlc://quit

This will generate a ./output.mpg. You'll have to demux it to extract just the audio stream out.

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