From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail01.tacticuscommunications.net (mail01.tacticuscommunications.net [74.2.138.133]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3F61109E1 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:07:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail01.tacticuscommunications.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 004E1108C4 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:54:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail01.tacticuscommunications.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail01.tacticuscommunications.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id EnUzqasv1D59 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:54:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [10.0.10.20] (unknown [10.0.10.20]) by mail01.tacticuscommunications.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id CB8AD108C2 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:54:08 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:08:55 -0400 (EDT) From: luke To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: text console tools for audio processing In-Reply-To: <20080616215006.GA18486@cq.ftml.net> Message-ID: References: <20080616091142.GA12854@cq.ftml.net> <18518.15071.596427.625229@ccs.covici.com> <20080616173227.GD6592@sonata.rednote.net> <20080616194440.GA11074@cq.ftml.net> <20080616215006.GA18486@cq.ftml.net> Organization: Tacticus Communications, Inc. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:07:58 -0000 On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > Wedit uses 16 bit signed samples, one or two channels, in memory. So > much of what you need to do is beyond the scope of wedit, I'm afraid. I > have a system with a GB of memory and sometimes run into things I can't > handle too. But most of my work is much less demanding than you > indicated. Got ya. Still, I can see some uses for it in non-huge jobs. > So, if wedit can't handle it, there's always the underlying standard > apps to fall back on. But as you know, when sox works on a huge file > you may as well take a nap until it finishes. If you can put your task > in memory, it is instantaneous. Indeed. Sox won't always work on files that big (I forget its upper limit, but it's somewhere around 2 gig), and I often have to pull files off of DVD in pieces of about 2 hour length, just so sox can handle them. A pita, that, but what'ya gonna do? Yes, I have often had to put a long series of pull, edit with sox, flac encode, rsync jobs in a nice big && sequence in bash, and then go to bed for the evening, so that it could be finished in the morning, and then worry about did I screw up one of the title numbers in all that?:) Sudoing to root's bash, and running with a niceness of -18 can help to speed things along from time to time, if I remember to do it. Luke