[FFmpeg-user] Recording audio to FLAC on Mac OS X

[Hans J. Albertsson]

ffmpeg -codecs | grep -i flac
returns
  DEA..S flac                 FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec)

so there is a flac encoder, and thus ffmpeg should be able to produce a 
flac "recording" if the signal can be gotten to ffmpeg in the first place.

ffmpeg -i ....... -acodec flac out.flac

???

Getting the audio to fdfmpeg, i e what to give as argument to  "-i", I 
suppose, is better answered by Mr. Hoyos.


On 2013-12-04 12:05, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
> Taking the OBVIOUS interpretation as gospel, I'd say Charlie means 
> using audio input to a computer (the microphone input, or some other 
> audio device) and somehow managing to send that as a stream to ffmpeg 
> and have ffmpeg save the data stream as a flac file.
>
> Two parts; first send a stream of data from audio input to ffmpeg, and 
> second have ffmpeg save it as flac.
>
> I suppose at least the second one could be answered w/o needing to 
> know more. Or else one could possibly dream up a clarification 
> question to assist the writer in getting his thought process in better 
> order, if the original question is partly confusing or unclear.
> All with a goal of bringing us all forward, towards better knowledge 
> and clearer understanding.
>
> Which, I suppose, is the actual reason for the existence of a mailing 
> list such as ffmpeg-user.....
>
>
> Just my 3 bits per 15 minutes watermark....
>
>
> On 2013-12-03 19:02, Carl Eugen Hoyos wrote:
>> Charlie Dickey <avid <at> finalcuts.net> writes:
>>
>>> Is there a way to use ffmpeg to record audio and
>>> save it as a FLAC file on Mac OS X?
>> Could you elaborate what you mean with "record"?
>>
>> Carl Eugen
>>
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