On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 01:24:24AM +0200, Alexandre Ratchov wrote: > On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 12:40:30AM +0200, Rico wrote: > > Hi > > > > Anyone who can recommend a good and "easy" to use tool for recording > > audio (mic) from the packages? It doesn't need to have any gui but build > > in compression like MP3 is preferable. > > > > I know there are a couple of different tools but what are the best ones? > > > > hi, > > to record raw audio, my prefered tools are cat(1) and audioctl(1) > > i use audioctl(1) to set the enconding, rate, precision and number of > channels and then > > cat /dev/sound >filename > > to record. I'd suggest you not to use emulated encodings (those > tagged with '*' in the output of 'audioctl -a'). See also audio/sox > and audio/audacity from ports
you may also need to set the mixer to record from the mic, $ mixerctl record.source=mic no GUI, direct to MP2 via ffmpeg (from ports): $ ffmpeg -ad /dev/audio out.mp2 no GUI, direct to MP3 via transcode (from ports): $ transcode -p /dev/audio -y null,lame -m out -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

