On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 19:05:48 +0100 lachata <lachata@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello. I'd like to rec from the microphone from my code. What I've done > is to call "sox -t ossdsp -s -r 44100 -c 1 /dev/dsp -t .wav melodia.wav > &" from my code (GUI). The problem is that I need to add the "&" at the > end, because in other case, the sistem doesn't respond. But in this way > I need to send a kill signal. This run ok in most of the cases, but not > in all of them. Sometimes, sox takes a wrong header (wrong size of the > file), which doesn't ocurr at all if i run sox from the command line > without the "&" at the end. > > Does anyone have any idea that what can i do? Thinking outside the box, is there anythng that you want from sox that can't be supplied by libsndfile and libsamplerate? Using these libraries means you wouldn't have to worry about spawning and controlling another process. http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/ http://www.mega-nerd.com/SRC/ Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Yes it's valid) +-----------------------------------------------------------+ "Linux is produced to be used, whereas the others are produced to be sold" -- Bobby D. Bryant