Re: audio recorder on etch?
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 10:54:03AM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> Scheduling an audio recording with sound-recorder failed on my etch box.
> Only about the first 3 hours were recorded, resulting in a file just 2.0
> GB large. (This was a recording of an opera production, so it is
> difficult / impossible to predict suitable breaks in order to record
> smaller chunks.)
>
> I cannot find any hint in the documentation to sound-recorder claiming a
> limit on file size / maximum recording time.
>
> I use ext3 and routinely record videos of larger size than 2.0 GB.
>
> Is this a bug in sound recorder?
> Are there any (better) command line tools available for recording audio,
> that allow for longer recordings?
>
> Thanks for any suggestions!
regular wav files have a 2GB limit. If you want to record longer than
this you need to use a program that can record to wav64. 2 that I know
that can do this are timemachine and ecasound. I'm sure there are
others. ecasound is a commandline app and is suitable for running from
cron. timemachine, I think, can also be run without its gui.
-Eric Rz.
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