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Re: sound
Erez Doron wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I was wondering if anybody could help me on this:
>
> I wanted to record sound at CD quality (44100hz Stereo 16 bit),
> I'm using SB16PnP.
>
> The problem is that my linux box does not keep the pace and it records
> the sounds while skipping some parts of it, which is very anoying.
>
> I know my linux-box is only a i486DX2/66 with 8 Megs of RAM, but
> i think that asking to write to disk at CDx1 speed (176Kb/sec) is
> reasnable.
>
> I tryed running at single user mode ( the only processes running were
> 'init' and my recording util)
> I tryed running with/without swap.
>
> none of the above helped
>
> is the problem my 'old' cpu (I dont think so ! )
> is it the sound driver ( I'm using wavrec of the wavplay-1.0p2-2 package
> )
> is the problem the sound driver in the kernel ( I'm usning linux 2.0.30
> )
>
> Any suggestions ?
Are you recording directly from the audio to the CD?
You should create a file, then record on the CD (possibly in
single-user mode).
CD's (at least used to) have very small write buffers, and therefore
they are very sensitive to delays in the incoming data.
--Amos
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References:
- sound
- From: Erez Doron <erez@black.scorpio.com>