On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 17:03:05 +0100 Christian von Rützen <c.vonruetzen@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > I need a simple command line tool which returns the current amplitude / volume of the microphone. > I tried "arecord -d 1 -vv /dev/null" , but arecord or an underlying device driver has a memory leak which stops my machine after an hour. > > Can anyone help? > > Thanks, > Christian > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-user mailing list > Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user > If there is a memory leak file a bug. If you can live with some drops in level management, write a script that would kill and restart 'arecord', say, each 15 minutes. ... I've tried your command line myself, it terminates almost immediately. --Sergei. -- Visit my http://appsfromscratch.berlios.de/ open source project. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
