Jump to content
The Dark Mod Forums

How To Copy Ram Files

Maximius

By Maximius
in Off-Topic

 Share

Recommended Posts

Maximius

Maximius

Posted
  • Author
Posted
You can't keep a copy of a streamed RAM file AFAIK. The technology required to play it will discard each segment once it's finished playing.

 

AFAIK, reverse enginering this to save it as it goes along has not been very sucessful.

 

:( I have a two hour commute now for work and I want to get web radio shows for my Mp3 player, but a couple good ones are real audio links only. Thanks anyway for the info all.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
OrbWeaver

OrbWeaver

Posted
Posted
AFAIK, reverse enginering this to save it as it goes along has not been very sucessful.

 

There used to be a program called Streambox VCR that would do this, but I think it was shut down due to legal issues.

 

Technologically there is nothing to prevent streamed data from being saved, but software that does this is open to DMCA-style actions.

DarkRadiant homepage ⋄ DarkRadiant user guide ⋄ OrbWeaver's Dark Ambients ⋄ Blender export scripts

Link to comment
Share on other sites
sxotty

sxotty

Posted
Posted
There used to be a program called Streambox VCR that would do this, but I think it was shut down due to legal issues.

 

Technologically there is nothing to prevent streamed data from being saved, but software that does this is open to DMCA-style actions.

It is possible that someone might still have a copy of this program if they happened to know where to send it. Of course that doesn't that the person would know whether it was up to date and would work or not.

 

But you can always simply record your output, especially if you have a digital out and then you are good to go.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Maximius

Maximius

Posted
  • Author
Posted
It is possible that someone might still have a copy of this program if they happened to know where to send it. Of course that doesn't that the person would know whether it was up to date and would work or not.

 

But you can always simply record your output, especially if you have a digital out and then you are good to go.

 

Where would this digital out be located and what would I use to record the data, software or hardware?

 

max the techno-tard

Link to comment
Share on other sites
sxotty

sxotty

Posted
Posted
Where would this digital out be located and what would I use to record the data, software or hardware?

 

max the techno-tard

Well it depends on your sound card. And it depends on your drivers, the game theater XP had a digital out and in, and you could loop a cable between them to record the digital stream, but the newer drivers disabled this at the behest of the powers that be.

 

So to record from digital out you need a digital out and a digital in on your soundcard. Without those you won't be able to do it. There may be some virtual device of some sort, that redirects sound output to a file, but I am personally unaware of such a thing. That would make it so you would not need to do anything complicated.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
obscurus

obscurus

Posted
Posted

If you have a professional soundcard, a lot of them have very advanced ways of piping audio streams around through virtual busses which enable you to basically circumvent any normal copy protection mechanism. It is an expensive way to go though if you have no other use of a pro-audio card though. ESI Juli@ or EMU 1212m would do the job, but they will set you back a fair bit of cash. It will be very intersting to see how TPM based DRM deals with these cards, as the ability to pipe audio streams to different audio applications is an essential feature of these cards, but it breaks all current DRM implementations...

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

×
 Share
Go to topic listing

  • Recent Status Updates

    • nbohr1more

      nbohr1more

      The FAQ wiki is almost a proper FAQ now. Probably need to spin-off a bunch of the "remedies" for playing older TDM versions into their own article.
      · 1 reply
    • nbohr1more

      nbohr1more

      Was checking out old translation packs and decided to fire up TDM 1.07. Rightful Property with sub-20 FPS areas yay! ( same areas run at 180FPS with cranked eye candy on 2.12 )
      · 3 replies
    • taffernicus

      taffernicus

      i am so euphoric to see new FMs keep coming out and I am keen to try it out in my leisure time, then suddenly my PC is spouting a couple of S.M.A.R.T errors...
      tbf i cannot afford myself to miss my network emulator image file&progress, important ebooks, hyper-v checkpoint & hyper-v export and the precious thief & TDM gamesaves. Don't fall yourself into & lay your hands on crappy SSD
       
      · 7 replies
    • OrbWeaver

      OrbWeaver

      Does anyone actually use the Normalise button in the Surface inspector? Even after looking at the code I'm not quite sure what it's for.
      · 7 replies
    • Ansome

      Ansome

      Turns out my 15th anniversary mission idea has already been done once or twice before! I've been beaten to the punch once again, but I suppose that's to be expected when there's over 170 FMs out there, eh? I'm not complaining though, I love learning new tricks and taking inspiration from past FMs. Best of luck on your own fan missions!
      · 4 replies
×
×
  • Create New...