[Functionnality] Personalized non-system pipelines

[FM33]

Hello,
Next to rec-applet's bug 695020 I finally could personalize system pipelines, after finding a non-exhaustive, easy to understand documentation. But i can't find how to add new system pipelines to have two ".OGG" choices with different settings. After tried some vain hazardous manipulations in gconf-editor, i think it is a better idea to ask for another option in "additional settings" : Possibility to set here user pipelines to be used only in audio-recorder.
Is that possible ?

[moma (osmoma)]

Hello
It is a very good idea. We could add a new tab-page to the [Additional settings] dialog.
Please see: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10555504#post10555504

Other people has also asked for a method to change bitrate (or sound quality) .
Please read this this posting on rec-applet (rec-applet was recently renamed to audio-recorder).
https://bugs.launchpad.net/rec-applet/+bug/695020

I just completed a major code-change to audio-recorder and the version number was upgraded to 0.4.
I do not want to add new features before this version has settled and work reasonably well.
Ref: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~osmoma/audio-recorder/trunk/files

[FM33 (foxxm)]

Hello,

I installed audio-recorder 1.4-2 on saucy 64 bits, but it doesn't take the changes in system pipelines (default edited with gconf-editor, or new one created with gnome-audio-profiles-properties).

It works in precise with version 0.9.1

[moma (osmoma)]

Hello,
In the earlier versions of A.r we got the media profiles (audio formats and pipelines) from GNOME's GConf registry. This was a very good and optimal solution. But something happened in Ubuntu 12.x and the old media-profiles package was no longer installed by default. So I dropped it from audio-recorder. Also DConf started to replace GConf as the registry system in GNOME/Ubuntu. So I resolved to hard-code the media profiles in code (in src/media-profiles.c).

Please see this question: https://answers.launchpad.net/audio-recorder/+question/244321

You are right that we should let advanced users to modify and add media-profiles in the [Advanced settings] dialog of audio-recorder. Do you have a good design solution or some code?

Kindly
  Osmo (moma) Antero
  Portugal

[FM33 (foxxm)]

I am not a coder, but i think that is necessary to be able to edit profiles without recompiling.
Adding a tab in advanced settings would be the best solution : Add/remove buttons with list of pipelines and custom names. Setting by pasting a pipeline will allow to record in any format supported by gstreamer (thinking about opus). Will just need to search in doc to elaborate the pipeline. The setting tab could also be completed with a link to a web page with sample pipelines that anyone could tweak to get what he wants.

Otherwise adding a dependency to media-profiles that still exist on ubuntu 13.10.

[FM33 (foxxm)]

Another idea : Storing the profiles in a text config file.

[moma (osmoma)]

This has been implemented in audio-recorder 1.5-2 for Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic).
See: Additional Settings --- Recording commands.
It contains a simple editor.

Please check the PPA .