Hallo, Stephen Cameron hat gesagt: // Stephen Cameron wrote: > --- Josh Lawrence <hardbop200@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [...] > > He needs an audio application that will record for a specific amount > > of time, say, for 4 hours, without user intervention. He needs to be > > able to say, begin recording conference at 9:00 AM and stop at 4:00 PM > > and walk away without ever thinking about it again. [...] > > I think ecasound can do what you want. > > Here's the man page: > http://eca.cx/ecasound/Documentation/ecasound_manpage.html > > the -t option looks relevant. Ecasound is the perfect tool for this. We have used it for several years (six or so) to do several unattended recordings *a day* with only a handful of broken recordings through all these years (which weren't ecasound's fault generally, but more like: Someone stepped on an important cable etc.) Besides -t also the -z option is useful to switch on double buffering and of course "-rt" should be used to have ecasound run at realtime priority to further reduce the risk of dropouts. You start ecasound through crond then. It's also a good idea to somehow set the clock in advance. We just used netdate some minutes before starting to record to synchronize the clock. Ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__
