Dennis Filder <[email protected]> writes: > On Sat, Jun 19, 2021 at 02:49:00PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: > >> That was an unfamiliar extensions, so: >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matroska >> >> and that's philosophically great, but a lot of complexity for what could >> be just a single audio file. I started to build mkvtoolnix, but it >> seems to take hours, and audacity worked, so I stopped. >> >> So this is only sort of a bug report, but through it might be helpful to >> people dealing with trying to record. > > Matroska was a reasonable choice given that Linphone is also a video > phone, and needs to be able to record both. At the time of > implementation it was one of the few unproblematic container formats > wrt. to intellectual property shenanigans and that can also support > new codecs easily.
Certainly a fair point. I guess I would suggest that a recording of an audio call just be the bare file, but I guess the point is that you can start out audio and then turn on audio later. I think really the bug is that there isn't a simple, command-line only way to pull the streams out as separate files, where "simple" means "not a lot of dependencies", "can be built on a 10 year old computer in a few minutes", and "needs at most C++11, nothing newer, no boost, no qt". In all seriousness, I was amazed at how beastly mkvtoolnix was. I use pkgsrc, a portable packaging system, and it was included, so it was just "make pakcage-install" to recurse to building dependencies and then it, but it was seeming like it was going to take hours, on a computer that can build firefox in an hour or two. I do not understand why.
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