gnome-sound-recorder voice encoder should be mono

[Noam Yorav-Raphael]

Binary package hint: gnome-media

Hello,

I now used gnome-sound-recorder to record a lesson, using the "Voice, Lossy (Speex audio)" encoding. The resulting file size for about 1 hour is about 20MB. It turns out that the file is encoded in stereo. I think that 99.9% of people recording speech are not interested in stereo, and most chances are that they use a mono microphone. I think that 10MB/hour would be much nicer than 20MB/hour.

By the way, I think that 5MB/hour would be even nicer, if it sounds Ok. If it is understandable but sounds significantly worse, I would add another option - Why not have "voice, lossy, high quality" and "voice, lossy, low quality"?

Thanks,
Noam

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Mar 30 22:57:03 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-sound-recorder
Package: gnome-media 2.20.1-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: gnome-sound-recorder
ProcCwd: /home/noam
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=he_IL.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-media
Uname: Linux paltiel 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 07:42:25 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

[Ernesto Celis (celisdelafuente)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug seems to be more a wishlist candidate than a bug affecting the gnome-sound-recorder normal functioning. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Noam Yorav-Raphael (noamraph)]

I agree it's more a wish than a bug. I clicked "Report a bug" in the
application and there was no place to change the classification into a
wish.

Even though it's not technically a bug, I think it gets close to a
bug. It's a small (design) mistake, probably pretty easy to fix, which
makes the program significantly less useful for recording speech.

Noam

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, the issue seems to be an upstream one, could you open it on bugzilla.gnome.org too?

[Noam Yorav-Raphael (noamraph)]

Ok, I opened bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552420

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for sending the bug to GNOME

[Bruce Cowan (bruce89-deactivatedaccount)]

This was in fact fixed upstream (http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gnome-media/trunk/profiles/gnome-audio-profiles.schemas.in.in?r1=3894&r2=4072), but the GNOME bug hasn't been touched.