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

[Henk D. Schoneveld]

On 04 Dec 2013, at 12:10, Hans J. Albertsson <hans.j.albertsson at branneriet.se> wrote:

> 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.
What is the source of the sound, microphone audio-in, then you need to know how these devices are called in OSX
> 
> 
> 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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