8 Sep
2006
8 Sep
'06
9:57 p.m.
Hi,
If you use ecasound as I recommended (and not the much
less reliable
arecord that's all the rage in this thread's recent mails), you can
just replace .wav with .ogg in your command line and you will get a
compressed ogg-file recording instead. Same with mp3, if you have
configured an encoder in ecasoundrc.
Could you explain what you mean with "much less reliable" ?
I often use arecord, and find it very reliable.
I have never used ecasound, and since I often use arecord and oggenc
in different settings, piping them together was the logical solution
for me... And frankly, I find my arecord / oggenc oneliner (even
simpler than I wrote in the first place, thanks to Paul Davis pointing
out the -d flag) rather clear and straightforward. So, rather than
learning a new application, I combine two I already know, including
their command line arguments. And I could easily add other applications
to the chain.
arecord -f cd -d 14400 | oggenc -q 6 -o 4hours.ogg -
arecord -f cd -d 14400 | lame -q 6 - 4hours.mp3
Anyway, as often, many ways to accomplish the same task!
maarten