Thread: [Announce] Orecchiette - an all-purpose audio recording app
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2013-06-11 , 21:03
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Originally Posted by Kossuth View Post
I could not get the AAC recording to work. It onle recorded two clicks and nothing else.
Hmm. I have to admit, I don't have a good handle on the workings of the GStreamer encoders yet. I haven't seen this particular behavior myself, but I have been having a lot of trouble with some of the encoders producing bad data. It could be that I just don't have them set up right; or, there could be something environmental that is affecting the GStreamer pipeline.

If I can ask, were you running anything else at the same time as Orecchiette? Since GStreamer consumes so much CPU, I would guess that other CPU-intensive apps might affect it...

Other thing I noticed is that if I adjust the output volume to zero (muted) the output is no longer recorded. The output volume does not have other effects on the recording only the mute.
Hmm. I'm using something called "sink.hw0.monitor" to access the output data stream. So far as I know, none of the GStreamer elements themselves currently react to the volume controls, so I would guess that this muting effect must be built in to hw0 in some manner. I'll investigate.
 

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