recording wavs

[Tim Wunder]

On Tuesday 16 September 2003 6:41 pm, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Squabsy wrote:
> > On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 08:57:35 -0400 (EDT), "Net Llama!"
> >
> > <netllama at linux-sxs.org> said:
> > > On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Squabsy wrote:
> > > > Quoting Tim Wunder <tim at thewunders.org>:
> > > > > Or partition space in any temporary storage location that Audacity
> > > > > (or gnome-sound-recorder, or gramophile) would be using.
> > > >
> > > > How would I check this please ?
> > >
> > > df -h
> > >
> > > i'd also be really curious what the load is on you box while its
> > > encoding (uptime output).
> >
> > OK
> >
> > Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/hdb6             8.8G  4.9G  3.9G  56% /
> > /dev/hda1             6.0G  5.6G  436M  93% /windows/C
> > /dev/hdb1              20G   13G  7.2G  64% /windows/D
> > shmfs                 125M     0  125M   0% /dev/shm
> >
> >
> > I've got 256mb of Ram and an amd k6 processor
> >
> > I've also just noticed that the wavs I'm creating are over 1gb for just
> > few minutes of music (but xmms shows them all asbeing exactly 100 mins
> > long ????
>
> where are you attempting to write them?  You dont' seem to have very much
> free space on any of your partitions, especially hda1.  What
> bitrate/frequency are you using to create the wavs?

FWIW, 20 minutes of 44.1KHz 8-bit stereo recorded from vinyl takes up about 
200 MB of space on my ext3 filesystem. RHL 8.0 on an 1GHz Duron with 384MB 
RAM.

And yes, that /windows/C drive looks mighty full.

I don't believe the problem lies with the K6 processor, although it's been a 
while since I recorded audio from the line in on a K6...bit rate might be a 
reasonable culprit, but *something* is amiss here. The plot thickens, indeed.

Could it be a soundcard module problem?

Regards, 
Tim

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