On Fri, 02 Aug 2002, Tapan S. Parikh wrote: > > Audio newbie question... Id like to be able to record audio from the > mic at the touch of a button in my Gnome app. Is there a best way to > do this? Are there some standard libs available for something like > this? > > Seems simple but maybe it isnt...
Gnome 1 or 2? It's not really all that easy. If you just want raw audio output (to WAV or something), you could code up a quick recording client using libsndfile. You could use jack, but it's not widespread, esp. not on the desktop. You could use GStreamer, which works quite well for me; it's also going to be relatively standard on Gnome 2 desktops, I think. We'll see where that goes. Another quick option would be to simply invoke arecord or sox or something as a separate process. So no, it's not that simple yet :/ regards, wingo.
