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

[Hans J. Albertsson]

On 2013-12-04 12:18, Henk D. Schoneveld wrote:
> 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

Of course, but OSX is a sort-of unix, so some sort of indication could 
probably be provided if someone feels absolutely certain that there 
actually are audio-in devices that can be specified as input for ffmpeg.

I have a nasty feeling there might be more to it than just specifying a 
device name, one should probably add something to tell if it's alsa or 
jack (under linuxy environs) or what. Or whatever the audio in channel 
protocols are in Mac 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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