On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, janne halttunen wrote: > Levi Burton <donburton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> extremely usefull. My question is do any other software packages support >> this feature? For those who are not familiar with it (or cannot infer its >> meaning), it essentially just waits until the audio level reaches a specified >> threshold, then starts recording. I would love to know if ecasound can do [...] > I guess the closest thing in ecasound is this: > -ge:open-threshold-%, close-thold-%,volume-mode Yup, it does just the right thing. As a bonus, you can also stop recording based on a volume level trigger (the 'close-thold-%' param). Simple use (peak/rms): ecasound -i alsa -o foo.wav -gc:5,0,0 ecasound -i alsa -o foo.wav -gc:5,0,rms -- http://www.eca.cx Audio software for Linux!