There is a lot of software out there that can capture realmedia online streams for a fee. I’ve found a way in linux to do the same without buying third party software.
The main motivation for this is I discovered SBS (an Australian broadcaster) provides audio news programs (1 hour length) in a variety of different languages. And if you didn’t know studying languages is yet another hobby of mine.
The problem is their streams are realmedia and meant to be listened to online. I’d rather listen to them using my portable mp3 player. I’ve talked about converting rm to mp3 in a previous post… now let’s look at capturing the rm stream.