Re: Recording from Media Player

On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 11:16:02 -0700, Robert McN
<RobertMcN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi. It's been a while since you posted this, so maybe my question is coming
too late, but I'll try anyway. I still haven't been able to do what is being
described. I'm working on a laptop and the Windows Recorder records that
which is spoken directly into the laptop microphone. I tried downloading the

OK so far.... that's what that tool does.

ASFRecorder, but that asks me to open a file. What I'm doing is clicking on

Yep, check to that too (that's what it does)

a button at a news website and the audio streams. The Windows Recorder
doesn't record directly what is being streemed. Maybe, I could put the
speaker up to the microphone, but I thought there would be a more direct way.
The ESFRecorder seems to want me to open a file. But I can't do that, since
what I'm doing is simply to listening to a news report that is archived on

This news report ? Is it a file or not ? If it's a file then ASF
recorder ought to be able to record it. You have to provide it with
the location of the file. To determine that, download the Roku radio
snooper from http://www.rokulabs.com/support/rokuradiosnooper.php

Install the snooper and Etherial (contained in the package). Run the
snooper program, *then* connect to your radio station in media player.

Stop media player and check the list of URLs, yours will probably end
in .wma or begin with mms:// or rtsp://

Copy and paste that as the filename in ASFRecorder.

HTH
Cheers - Neil


the radio. (I'm interested in a tape that is in the public domain, that
appeared widely on many news channels.) If it isn't too late, and you have
some ideas, that would be great. Thanks, Bob

"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" wrote:

On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:05:02 -0700, Robert McN
<RobertMcN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks very much for your reply, Michael. I opened the Windows "Sound
Recorder" while playing the audio tape from the internet on Windows Media
Player. The recorder faintly picked up some of the sound that was picked up
by my laptop's mike, but it wasn't audible. I suspect you are doing


In that case, you have plugged the microphone into the Line-In socket
on the back of the sound card, rather than the (usually Pink)
Microphone socket, which accepts a different, lower signal level.

Either that, or there's a volume slider on the headset or microphone
which is turned right down, or your windows Volume Control is set to
almost no input level (look at setting for Recording rather than
Playback to see the correct mic input volume slider)

Windows media encoder 9 series can also record from Mic to a file :
https://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/encoder/default.mspx

ASFRecorder might be able to record the stream content directly for
later use (assuming it's a windows media file format they're
streaming) : http://sourceforge.net/projects/asfrecorder/


HTH
Cheers - Neil


something else, but I can't figure out what it is. I went to the
"properties" opetion on the toolbar, but there didn't seem to be any specific
options that allowed me to do what you are suggesting.
In any case, thanks very much for your help.
Bob

"Michael Walraven" wrote:

If the sample you want to record is less than 60 seconds you can use the
Sound Recorder app that is part of the XP install.
You will want to select the 'WAV' device for recording.

I just tried it with a video file from the web (of course only recorded the
sound this way) and worked fine.

Michael


"Robert McN" <RobertMcN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:8A4E268B-CCF9-4827-839B-587396AF45D8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks for the information, Mike. I'll look into that product. I presume,
since you recommended it, that you consider it to be the best one. I
don't
want to sound cheap (... "broke" is more accurate), but can you recommend
an
add-in or stand alone program that is free?

In any case, thanks. It looks like this will solve the problem.
Bob

"Mike Lowery" wrote:

WMP doesn't support recording in this way. You'll need a 3rd party app
like
this one:
http://www.highcriteria.com/

"Robert McN" <RobertMcN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I will be giving a lecture and would like to incorporate into my
powerpoint
presentation a audio clip from a newscast that is available online. At
the
site, there is a button that says "listen" and when I click on it, the
recording plays on the Windows Media Player (I have the newest version,
#11).
I can listen to this, but I'd like to record portions of the newscast
on my
PC and drop a segment into my presentation. The portions I'd like to
comment
are statements that are part of the public record and, though I'm not
an
expert, I'm quite sure that I wouldn't be violating any copyrights.
However,
I don't see any way for me to record the audio that is playing. Can it
be
done? If there is not straightforward way of doing this within Media
Player,
is there another way? Finally, do you know, how I could incorporate
the
recording from the Media Player to the Powerpoint presentation? Thanks
very
much.






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