[vorbis] [line-in.to.ogg]

[Paul Martin]

On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 07:39:56AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Paul Martin (pm at nowster.zetnet.co.uk) wrote:
> 
> > #!/bin/bash
> > 
> > output=${1:-/tmp/recording.ogg}
> > duration=${2:-1800}
> > 
> > brec -S -s 48000 -b 16 -t $duration -D 1 -r | \
> >  nice -n -10 oggenc -Q -q 6 -r -R 48000 -C 2 -o $output -
> 
> Just out of curiosity, why did you put "nice" in there?  Oggenc will
> use however much CPU it needs to encode the incoming data stream in
> real time, and must not fall behind.

I run this as root (so brec gets realtime priority). The nice makes
sure that nothing else causes oggenc to get starved of CPU. This is
important if you've got a low horsepower PC.


-- 
Paul Martin <pm at zetnet.net> (work)
  <pm at nowster.zetnet.co.uk> (home)


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