i was wondering isnt it best to have a compressed output like ogg or flac? i dont have such experience but how much of GB are we talking about with 4 hours of uncompressed audio? On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 15:33 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 12:57 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 12:49 -0400, Rob wrote: > > > On Thursday 07 September 2006 09:50, Josh Lawrence wrote: > > > > He needs an audio application that will record for a specific > > > > amount of time, say, for 4 hours, without user intervention. > > > > > > rec 4hourrecording.wav & sleep 14400; killall -INTR rec > > > > > > ;) > > > > Suboptimal (requires OSS emulation). Better: > > > > arecord 4hourrecording.wav & sleep 14400; killall -INTR arecord > > > > NB: This will record 8 bit mono at 8000Hz. Use "arecord -f cd" for > > better quality. > > arecord -d 14400 -f cd 4hourrecording.wav > > will leave you with a .wav file that has a correctly formed header. >
