[Klug-general] Linux Sound Programming

[Peter Childs]

I'm trying to figure out how to do some relatively simple stuff with
sound under Linux. I'm drawing a bit of a blank.

There seams to be about 10 different ways of doing it, all of them
with relatively poor docs and near no examples.

I'm using Qt and C++ so Phonon looks like the best answer, however I
need to record and phonon can't do that.

GStreamer is looking like a good answer but its tied me in knots already.

Pulse like it should do what I want and looks like the text book answer.

Alsa and Portaudio are other options.

I'm currently trying to write a small program that records, writes
does what what it records and archives in into 15 minute time
segments. (so MP3 or ogg encoding would be handy too) (This small
program can be written in anything, it does not really need to link
into the main Qt program....)


I'm really just trying to work out where to start, and I've been
trying for the last week now!

Peter.