vox audio recording

[Michael Gargiullo]

On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 15:22, Tom 'Needs A Hat' Mitchell wrote:
> On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 03:07:45PM -0400, Michael Gargiullo wrote:
> > Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> > 
> > I'm looking for a program that will record audio from 'line in', but
> > only record when there is something other then silence. Prefferably
> > saving each instance as an mp3 with a time and date stamp.
> > 
> > I'm trying to record a radio frequency, but only want to save the actual
> > communications, and not tons of dead air.
> 
> Start with /usr/bin/record, (xawtv-3.88-6)
> It does not do mp3 but the -l and -L flag might help.
> 
>    -l     Enable level triggered recording (console mode  only)  with  the
>               default trigger level (1000).
>  
>        -L level
>               Enable  level  triggered  recording  with  the specified trigger
>               level.
>  
>        If level triggered recording is active,  record  will  start  and  stop
>        recording  depending on the signal strength.  Recording will be started
>        if the signal strength is above the trigger level (1000/32768 => around
>        3%).   Recording  will  be  stopped  if the signal is below the trigger
>        level for some time (1.5 seconds by  default,  the  -p  switch  changes
>        this).
> 

Sweet!  Thank you.