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On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, janne halttunen wrote:
> Levi Burton  wrote:

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>> extremely usefull.  My question is do any other software packages support

>> this feature?  For those who are not familiar with it (or cannot infer its

>> meaning), it essentially just waits until the audio level reaches a specified

>> threshold, then starts recording.  I would love to know if ecasound can do

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> I guess the closest thing in ecasound is this:

> -ge:open-threshold-%, close-thold-%,volume-mode

Yup, it does just the right thing. As a bonus, you can also

stop recording based on a volume level trigger (the 'close-thold-%'

param).
Simple use (peak/rms):
ecasound -i alsa -o foo.wav -gc:5,0,0

ecasound -i alsa -o foo.wav -gc:5,0,rms
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