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Thread ID: 51811	2004-11-30 09:25:00	Linux - wanted, a simple reliable audio recording program	personthingy (1670)	Press F1

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298257	2004-12-01 04:16:00	Hmm... Perhaps I should look in to krecipe then, sounds useful :D	Chilling_Silence (9)
298258	2004-12-01 09:09:00	Graham L, in answer to your question > Does the microphone appear on the sound mixer? Have you got a sound mixer? Yes and Yes... the input definatly works. i have a baby mixer plugged into the laptop now, with a mic on it. Sounds like a pair of 1¨ speakers, ie bloody awful, but its working. Chill, i tried to install krecord, and it spat the dummy. To be honest i havent the timetonight to figure out what needs to be to make this one a go. heres the output: [hippy@flaptop krecord-1.15.1]$ make WARNING: KDEDIR isn't set, assuming /usr kdedirs: debug: apps is /usr/share/applnk [default] kdedirs: debug: data is /usr/share/apps [default] kdedirs: debug: html is /usr/share/doc/HTML [default] MOC krecord.moc make: /usr/lib/qt3//bin/moc: Command not found make: *** [krecord.moc] Error 127 [hippy@flaptop krecord-1.15.1]$	personthingy (1670)
298259	2004-12-01 10:17:00	Try here (www.google.com)	Chilling_Silence (9)
298260	2004-12-02 00:53:00	I was thinking in terms of a software mixer , rather than an external "mixer with KNOBS", but obviously the input isn't muted . ;-) What level is the computer input: Line, or Mic? If you are feeding a microphone signal amplified up to line level by an external mixer to a "Mic" input, you'll get major distortion . I guess krecord didn't "make" because you haven't got the "KDE debug" package installed . That has a lot of definitions which are needed to compile new packages which rely on it . There might be a few other pacakages needed, but I don't use KDE . Otr, it might want you to do " . . /configure" before the "make" . There should be a README, or INSTALL or . . . file in the krecord directory which will tell you this . Have a browse .	Graham L (2)
298261	2004-12-02 04:53:00	Yes there is a software mixer as well as the baby hardware mixer thats plugged into the laptop . The baby mixer is purely there because its not a toy mic, and i dont have a cannon--->miniture jack for it . The input on the laptop is marked as a mic input, but it copes well with the signal from the hardware mixer,posably because the gains down so low the LEDs of the VU arent even lighting up . I´ll probably have to have some sort of device made to knock the levels back when i use it to record gigs, as this will be done with a feed thats running at the same level as the feed driving the amplifiers of the main PA system, in other words one thats totally over the top . However, back to the issue of recording, or not recording, at whatever possably excessive levels . Heres the instructions . (install) howto compile and install this package ====================================== really short install instructions --------------------------------- $ make $ su -c "make install" the more detailed version ------------------------- Make sure you use GNU make . The file name "GNUmakefile" isn't a joke, this package really requires GNU make . As first step make will do some config checks on your system and write the results to Make . config . If you want to have a look at Make . config before the actual build starts you can run this step separately using "make config" . The Makefiles use the usual GNU-ish Makefile conventions for variable names and default values, i . e . prefix=/usr/local, . . . The values for some frequently adapted variables are initialized from the enviroment . Thus you can change the defaults simply by setting environment variables: $ prefix="/usr" $ CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=i686" $ export prefix CFLAGS Almost any variable can be overridden on the make command line . It is often used this way to install into some buildroot for packaging . . . $ su -c "make DESTDIR=/tmp/buildroot install" . . . but it works for most other variables equally well . There are some exceptions through, it usually does _not_ work for CFLAGS for example . Try "make verbose=yes" if you want to see the complete command lines executed by make instead of the short messages (for trouble shooting, because you like this way, for whatever reason . . . ) . This also makes the config checks performed by "make config" more verbose . If you don't trust my Makefiles you can run "make -n install" to see what "make install" would do on your system . It will produce human-readable output (unlike automake . . . ) . Have fun, Gerd -- Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex . org> and the readme: This is a sound recorder for KDE -------------------------------- Not very powerful . It can just record and playback wav-files, nothing else . Can handle multiple files, you can drop files to it, it can handle large sound files without problems . compile ------- Check out the INSTALL file for build instructions . If you run in trouble make sure you have set the QTDIR and KDEDIR environment variables, like this: $ export QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt3 $ export KDEDIR=/opt/kde3 Of course you have to adopt the values to match the installation paths on your system . . . usage ----- Have a look at the index . html file . Have fun, Gerd -- Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex . org>	personthingy (1670)
298262	2004-12-02 05:00:00	How do i know if i have ¨GNU make¨, and what do i do about it if i don´t? :-) Chris	personthingy (1670)
298263	2004-12-03 02:01:00	I think you'll have GNU make . It's the standard in Linux . That caution is for people who have Solaris or some other flavour of Unix . The warnings are not too much of a problem, though it might be an idea to do those "export" commands . The fatal error you are getting refers to /bin/moc . "moc linux" to Google tells me that moc is a command line programme "music on console" which probably does most of the work for krecord (a suspicion based on the "krecord . moc" line) . You haven't got moc . Get it . :D that Google search will find a link to download it . I think it is the second or third link which you want . It's on sourceforge too . It's all great fun, isn't it? ;-)	Graham L (2)
298264	2004-12-03 02:24:00	fun??????? ;-) Can of worms i think, but one i have opened, and will continue with . . . . . [hippy@flaptop moc-2 . 1 . 3]$ . /configure checking for a BSD-compatible install . . . /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane . . . yes checking for gawk . . . gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE) . . . yes checking build system type . . . i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type . . . i686-pc-linux-gnu checking for gcc . . . no checking for cc . . . no checking for cc . . . no checking for cl . . . no configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH See `config . log' for more details . [hippy@flaptop moc-2 . 1 . 3]$ I must make use of the current daylight, but will continue with this battle tonight FLAPTOP WILL RECORD SOUND ON NEW YEARS EVE!!!!! :-) Chris	personthingy (1670)
298265	2004-12-03 02:26:00	[hippy@flaptop moc-2.1.3]$ make make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. [hippy@flaptop moc-2.1.3]$ me thinks i got to get something else before moc joins the party!!!!!!! :-) Chris	personthingy (1670)
298266	2004-12-03 02:28:00	If you haven't got gcc you have problems. ;-) Mandrake will have it in the Development group. It's not something you compile, especially since you need the compiler to compile it. :D	Graham L (2)
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