piping arecord into lame

piping arecord into lame

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Hey Geoff -

I have a question for you concerning piping arecord into lame. How do you
terminate arecord without also terminating lame? When I record a sound
source I often do not know its duration before I begin, so I have been
terminating arecord with ^c at the appropriate time. However, that seems
to terminate lame also when I pipe arecord into lame on the same command
line... How do you handle that?

Chuck.


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Re: piping arecord into lame

[Geoff Shang]

Hi Chuck:

urrr.  I don't.  Never thought about that one.  hmmm.  yeah and I've seen
some programs get annoyed about files made this way.  It's interesting that
aplay will play files recorded by arecord when it's terminated by
control-C, but the vocoder program I use for example doesn't like them.

I don't know what to do there.  You might do better with say record in the
sox package, but I don't know for sure.  Anyone else with ideas?  Oh I
guess you could kill the arecord process from another console, but I
haven't tried that.

Geoff.


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Re: piping arecord into lame

[Kerry Hoath]

There is a way, use parenthesis to start each process in a subshell, so arecord
runs in one shell, lame in another. Make sure the shell that runs lame has
the sigint signal trapped out so lame doesn't receive it. something like this
(untested untried might not work) might work;
(arecord -M)|(trap 0 1;lame options) might do it. You don't want the sigint
going to lame only to arecord.

Somebody on this list might be better at bash than I am and can work something.

Regards, Kerry.
On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 01:55:36PM +1000, Geoff Shang wrote:
> Hi Chuck:
> 
> urrr.  I don't.  Never thought about that one.  hmmm.  yeah and I've seen
> some programs get annoyed about files made this way.  It's interesting that
> aplay will play files recorded by arecord when it's terminated by
> control-C, but the vocoder program I use for example doesn't like them.
> 
> I don't know what to do there.  You might do better with say record in the
> sox package, but I don't know for sure.  Anyone else with ideas?  Oh I
> guess you could kill the arecord process from another console, but I
> haven't tried that.
> 
> Geoff.
> 
> 
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> 
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Re: piping arecord into lame

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Hi Kerry -

What you suggested did not quite cut it, but I think the concept is
sound. Better hit the books and see what else is needed!

Many thanks for the suggestion.
Chuck.


My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh 
Winter will ask us what we did all summer.

Re: piping arecord into lame

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Perhaps it is more of a problem on this relatively slow system, where lame
takes longer to handle its input than it might on a faster system. This is
a 133 MHz 5x86 with only 16MB memory, and while it does a lot of things
pretty well, it takes its sweet time about it! <g>
Chuck.


On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Geoff Shang wrote:

> Hi Chuck:
> 
> urrr.  I don't.  Never thought about that one.  hmmm.  yeah and I've seen
> some programs get annoyed about files made this way.  It's interesting that
> aplay will play files recorded by arecord when it's terminated by
> control-C, but the vocoder program I use for example doesn't like them.
> 
> I don't know what to do there.  You might do better with say record in the
> sox package, but I don't know for sure.  Anyone else with ideas?  Oh I
> guess you could kill the arecord process from another console, but I
> haven't tried that.
> 
> Geoff.
> 
> 
> 

My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh 
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Re: piping arecord into lame

[Brent Harding]

Terminating lame should be ok anyways.
At 08:37 PM 8/21/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Hey Geoff -
>
>I have a question for you concerning piping arecord into lame. How do you
>terminate arecord without also terminating lame? When I record a sound
>source I often do not know its duration before I begin, so I have been
>terminating arecord with ^c at the appropriate time. However, that seems
>to terminate lame also when I pipe arecord into lame on the same command
>line... How do you handle that?
>
>Chuck.
>
>
>My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh 
>Winter will ask what we did all summer.
>
>
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Re: piping arecord into lame

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Hi Brent,
When I tried it, I lost the last few seconds of input.
Chuck.


On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Brent Harding wrote:

> Terminating lame should be ok anyways.
> At 08:37 PM 8/21/00 -0400, you wrote:
> >Hey Geoff -
> >
> >I have a question for you concerning piping arecord into lame. How do you
> >terminate arecord without also terminating lame? When I record a sound
> >source I often do not know its duration before I begin, so I have been
> >terminating arecord with ^c at the appropriate time. However, that seems
> >to terminate lame also when I pipe arecord into lame on the same command
> >line... How do you handle that?
> >
> >Chuck.
> >
> >
> >My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh 
> >Winter will ask what we did all summer.
> >
> >
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> >
> >
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Piping arecord into lame

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Well I give up!

I have spent the day reading about subshells and trapping the kill signal,
and experimenting with same, and have not been able to successfully
interrupt only the "arecord" process leaving "lame" to finish processing
data sent to it through a pipe.

This is really not a proper thread for this list, but if anyone has been
able to do that, I would appreciate knowing how. Meanwhile I will just
contine to arecord to a file and then as a second and subsequent task I
will process that file with "lame".  Every variation of piping I have
tried always loses the last few seconds of data.

Off it goes to the back burner! 

Chuck.


My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh 
Winter will ask us what we did all summer.