Linux Audio "VCR"?

[Leo Mauler]

There was a source I found (then lost...) which stated
that dropped samples in recorded WAV files could be
the result of lower priority in the multitasking
system.  Run recordings as root and you have a better
quality recording, especially on a much older machine.

As an update, I've swapped out the PII-300Mhz machine
for an 850Mhz Duron so I can try out a solution which
involves creating a WAV stream but then directly
encoding the WAV stream to a MP3 file.  Its an
Ecasound project, I found it here:

http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue94/yan-fa.html

I am altering the original project by using a single
station radio and recording from Line-In (I only have
recording needs on NPR).  Otherwise it will be the
same thing.

--- "Leonard, Phil" <Phil.Leonard at dsionline.com>
wrote:
> > It seems to me that I remember that to be a
> problem
> > with the WAV file format, 
> > and/or the file size reaching the point where it's
> > no longer stored in RAM.  
> > You might try a different encoding.
> 
> I regularly work with multi-track projects where
> each track is over 2G in size, all .wav files.  I
> don't think it is a limitation of the file format.


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