Re: [SoX-users] Newbie questions: recording win32

[D. S. <new...@gm...>]

(in Cygwin)

$ rec  t.mp3

Input File     : '/dev/dsp' (ossdsp)
Sample Size    : 8-bit (1 byte)
Sample Encoding: unsigned
Channels       : 1
Sample Rate    : 8000

Expected... Now try to make it 16 bit:

rec -2 t.mp3

Input File     : '/dev/dsp' (ossdsp)
Sample Size    : 8-bit (1 byte)
Sample Encoding: unsigned
Channels       : 1
Sample Rate    : 8000

Time: 00:02.05 [00:00.00] of 00:00.00 (0.00%) Samples out: 8.19k Clips: 0

Same ... dang.  Let's try sox, directly, and see if we can get 16 bit like that:

sox -2 -t ossdsp /dev/dsp t.mp3

Input File     : '/dev/dsp' (ossdsp)
Sample Size    : 16-bit (2 bytes)
Sample Encoding: signed (2's complement)
Channels       : 1
Sample Rate    : 8000

Ah ha!  Ok, I'm not sure how you might set that with sox rec.

But as a workaround, try sox directly. Here's another example on Cygwin:

sox -2 -r 44100 -c 2 -t ossdsp /dev/dsp myrec.wav

Input File     : '/dev/dsp' (ossdsp)
Sample Size    : 16-bit (2 bytes)
Sample Encoding: signed (2's complement)
Channels       : 2
Sample Rate    : 44100



On Feb 9, 2008 3:08 PM, Andreas Mock <And...@we...> wrote:
> When I start recording with rec.exe I'm not able to change the
> sample size to 16 bit. It always remain on 8 bit.
> Is this changable or something that has to do with the cygwin port?