[Sugar-devel] New Dextrose 2 build: os438dx

[Art Hunkins]

Bernie,

I wish I had the technical wherewithall to offer a (partial) fix for Record.

Unfortunately, it's beyond me; sorry.

Art Hunkins

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bernie Innocenti" <bernie at codewiz.org>
To: "Art Hunkins" <abhunkin at uncg.edu>
Cc: "Sugar Devel" <sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 7:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] New Dextrose 2 build: os438dx


> On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 13:04 -0500, Art Hunkins wrote:
>> Bernie,
>>
>> Thanks for this info. I can report that Record-87 acts like v86 in that 
>> it
>> does not allow for audio recording. In both cases, when you hit Stop
>> following recording, the activity seems to get lost during the save 
>> process
>> and never reemerges. You can close the activity, but that's all.
>>
>> FWIW, I've copied the logs for both v86 and v87. One difference I noted 
>> is
>> that the v87 activity icon gets stuck in "Starting..", whereas I don't 
>> think
>> this is the case with v86. It looks like both versions saved correctly 
>> and
>> then got sidetracked. (I gave both runs several minutes or more time to
>> "recover" from saving.)
>>
>> I continue to be very concerned about Record because, to my knowledge, 
>> *with
>> versions of SoaS higher than Strawberry*, no Record produces Ogg Vorbis
>> sound recordings (one or two produce Ogg Speex, which of course are both 
>> of
>> lower sound quality, and are not handled by Csound). For certain, 
>> starting
>> with Record-76, *all* should produce Ogg Vorbis.
>
> If you come up with a patch, we'll include it in Dextrose. We already
> have a forked version to fix the UI layout, it can't hurt to have this
> bug fixed as well.
>
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