Record audio only

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Chefboyrc9
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Record audio only

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I would like to just record the audio of some live streams, no video. It will be a 24/7 live audio recorder. I have searched online and I can't find anything that will work, except by using a dvr software and modifying it to ignore video. Has anyone tried this? Thoughts?
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Re: Record audio only

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I've not actually tried it, but it appears to be trivial with ZM given the device's stream address, and doing as you suggest in the storage section.
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Re: Record audio only

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Well, I tried it, and as the warning notes, it doesn't work.
Bummer.
Maybe vlc could decode and send audio-only out. I'm no vlc expert though...
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I'll work on this in 1.35/1.36.

It has been on my todo list, to add a second url to get the audio from. While I am doing that I will make it possible to not have a video stream. Not sure what ramifications there might be, but logically it should be easy.
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Isaac, is that to-do list online somewhere?
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You could consider the github issues list the todo list... but it's not maintained very well.

My personal todo list involves many other projects and changes depending on funding/emergencies/needs etc.
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Right.
Thanks.
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Bear in mind in uk audio is a huge issue, recording especially, there are few good usage cases for it
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Re: Record audio only

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Curious about that jameswilson.
In this case, the audio can already be recorded with the video; does separating audio from video make the audio more of a problem?
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