[linux-audio-user] Re: sound recording application

[Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen]

Juhana Sadeharju:

>>rec 4hourrecording.wav & sleep 14400; killall -INTR rec
>
>Come on guys!
>
>We need better than that. And the suggestion to use of ardour
>remotely was a good start.

Use jack_capture. Just change the fgets call into a sleep call.
jack_capture should be just as safe as ardour for recording.


>And what if disk comes full? How your simple recorder can switch
>the file? And what is the file size of the largest file? E.g., "ls"
>command in my Linux stops listing files larger than ~2 GB.

If the disk becomes full, the recording is stopped and the recorded
file contains all data recorded upto that point.