On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 23:39 +0100, David Kastrup wrote: > On another note: it would seem like a simple enough task to let the > recording start with the first non-zero sample. I have been > completely unable to make head or tails of the manual page > descriptions of the arecord options presumably intended for that and > have found absolutely no setting that would not either drop quite more > than just the initial zeros, or not drop anything at all. > > I'd also like to prune trailing zeros at some point of time. arecord > does not seem to have options for doing that, I guess.
Well arecord is more of a debugging tool and a demonstration of the ALSA API than a full featured recording app. Check the list archives, I am pretty sure this was discussed not long ago. Lee
