[Klug-general] Linux Sound Programming

[Thomas Edward Groves]

So much for having a yard of books on Linux!

Why is *all* documentation so out-of-date / wrong / misleading?

Thanks for the tip, that will help (I hope) with one of my problems too.

Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Childs <peterachilds at gmail.com>
To: Kent Linux User Group - General Topics <kent at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 3:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Klug-general] Linux Sound Programming


> On 19 March 2010 15:40, Thomas Edward Groves <teg451013 at freeuk.com> wrote:
> > I've been thinking about Peter Childs' problem which seems to be to
carry
> > out a long recording
> > and then chop it into files each containing 15 minutes' worth of audio.
> >
> > One tactic would be to launch an instance of rec recording into a large
ogg
> > file and then use
> > ogg123 to chop this into 15 minute long chunks in wav files (ogg123
won't
> > output to ogg or mp3)
> > and then do a bulk convert to ogg or mp3.
> >
> > Problems with this are: it's going to be big file and how do you stop
the
> > recording.
> >
> > Another tactic would be to have a program which spawns instances of rec
> > recording into mp3 and
> > then kills them every 15 minutes.
> > Problems here are: timing between instances and, as before, what's the
> > stopping rule.
> >
> > All of this follows from the fact that rec runs until it's hit over the
head
> > with cntrl-C.
> >
> > Audio is a mess.
> >
> > Tom Groves
> >
> > Incidentally if this isn't the right way to respond to a thread then
> > a) I apologise and b) just let me know.
> >
> >
> >
>
> arecord has a -d switch that means record the x seconds, Rather a pain
> is that parec does not.
>
> Peter
>
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