Recording Sound in Windows?

[Devin Asay]

Sharon,

If you have a reproduceable recipe for this I'll help you post it as  
a bug to Bugzilla.

Devin

On Jun 21, 2005, at 4:34 PM, Sharon Stamps wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I went searching the archives to find out if anyone had encountered  
> the same problem I've had with the "record sound" feature in Rev on  
> Windows.  Each time I go to record, Windows pops up with "Low Disk  
> Space."  In previous posts, I read suggestions to check my disk  
> space (plenty; 108GB +) and swap space and also my Commit Charge.   
> Everything looks hunky-dory.  I am a Mac user attempting to cross- 
> platform my stacks :) and so I could easily be missing something.
>
> No matter what settings I use with "record sound," when I start  
> recording, I have 108GB free space.  While recording, however, I go  
> immediately go down to 172KB!  Throughout the duration of the  
> recording, the free disk space says 172KB.  As soon as the  
> recording stops, I shoot back up to 108GB.  My "Commit Charge"  
> starts at 316M/2965M and while recording, changes to 328M/2965M.  I  
> don't think that the recording should be causing such a problem!   
> The stack I am converting is used for ESL oral testing and each  
> student will be recording about 30 minutes of sound files  
> simultaneously on different computers (saved to a server).  The  
> current plan for the stack is for it to be built as a standalone  
> and taken to Hong Kong, so I won't be there to monitor the  
> computers while the test is being administered.
>
> Any help here?  If I'm stuck with this "bug", is there another  
> recording possibility?  Also, I am interested in knowing which  
> quickTime compression type would be best for my purposes.  Up to  
> this point, the stack has been used for recording about 10 minutes  
> of sound files and we put them in "pureVoice" because we have a  
> decent sized server, but I really need to conserve space with this  
> new stack.  I don't seem to be able to find a compression that  
> doesn't either sound horrible or take up too much disk space.  Any  
> ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Sharon
>
>
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> Sharon Stamps
> English Language Center
> Brigham Young University
>
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Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University