On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 5:53 AM, Paul Davis <p...@linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Arnold Obdeijn <arnold.obde...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I am using mplayer, sox and tee to capture streaming internet radio >> and send it both to an audio recognition program and to a file >> (recording). >> This is how I do it: >> >> mplayer -playlist {url} -nocache -af volnorm -msglevel all=1 -nolirc >> -vc dummy -vo null -ao pcm:file={$fifo1} & >> >> sox -S {$fifo1} -c 1 -r 8000 -t wav - resample | tee {$recording} | >> tee {$fifo2} & ...... >> >> $fifo1 and $fifo2 are named pipes, $fifo2 is processed by an audio >> recognition program. The idea is that the audio is converted to low >> quality wav (8000Hz mono) after which it is fed to the program and >> simultaneously recorded. > > Not that I want to suggest anything to massively off-topic, but I hope > you realize that this is a perfect example of the kind of scenario > that JACK was designed to handle. > > Sharing streaming data between programs via pipes is not a great idea > - the buffer associated with a pipe is rather small, and scheduling > delays for the programs reading from the pipe can cause data loss etc. > This doesn't matter if both the writer to the pipe and the reader can > both run "as needed", but when one of them is connected to an i/o > source (eg. the network , or an audio interface) which doesn't buffer > very much and has real deadlines, the whole design is almost destined > to fail or at least be very fragile. > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-dev mailing list > Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev >
Seconding the jack recommendation, I would recommend using xmms with the jack output plugin, and record its output with jack_capture. Mplayer also has a jack output plugin, but xmms has better playlist support and onscreen controls. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev