[vorbis] Encode on fly from device?

[Lorenzo Prince]

If running under Linux, you can simply use the < redirect symbol on the oggenc
command line to redirect the recording device to stdin.

Lorenzo

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jared Anderson" <jared at ieee.org>
To: <vorbis at xiph.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 7:09 PM
Subject: Re: [vorbis] Encode on fly from device?

<p>> I have a little function for recording from my radio (connected to line
> in) that uses alsa's mixer and arecord, you might find it useful:
>
>   function radiorec()
>   {
>     amixer sset Line,0 85%,85% unmute captura
>     arecord -f cd -t wav - | oggenc -q 3 -o $1.ogg -
>   }
>
> To use it I just issue radiorec filename at a prompt.
>
> Cheers,
>   J
>
>
> * Bryan Koschmann - GKT <gktnews at gktech.net> [2003-02-13 10:04]:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm looking for ideas here. I'm sure it's easy, but cant quite get what I
> > need.
> >
> > I am looking for a way to encode everything from the soundcard into a
> > .ogg, on the fly. Basically I want to be able to record and convert
> > directly to a compressed file. Since this will be running constantly, I
> > would also like to be able to listen to the file during this time.
> >
> > I know oggenc can use stdin, but I'm just not sure how to get the audio
> > directed to it.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> > Bryan
> >
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