Record audio only

[Chefboyrc9]

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?

[dougmccrary]

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.

[dougmccrary]

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...

[iconnor]

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.

[dougmccrary]

Isaac, is that to-do list online somewhere?

[iconnor]

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.

[dougmccrary]

Right.
Thanks.

[jameswilson]

Bear in mind in uk audio is a huge issue, recording especially, there are few good usage cases for it

[dougmccrary]

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?