Hi,

In message , Jonas
Eckerman writes

For some reason it seems very difficult for many programmers to simply let
the recorder close the first file, open a new file (using the same base
filename with a number added to the end), and keep recording. This would
allow the recording to go for longer than either the file system or file
format allows, meaning the total length of the recording would only be
limited by the amount of available space on the disk. Maybe that's the
problem. The programmers don't like long recordings. :-/

This problem was solved a few years ago by vendors of video capture
cards, in exactly the way you describe. They just create a sequence of
files with a 0, 1, 2... suffix on the filenames, then recreate the whole
file within the application.

Early generations of such software suffered occasional glitches, such as
the odd lost frame, but that seems to have been sorted out by the use of
sensible caching methodologies. Matrox, Pinnacle and a few others have
all implemented this type of approach, so maybe it's a case of educating
the programmers. If they can do it with 30(ish) Megabytes per second of
4:2:2 video, there doesn't seem to be any reason why they couldn't do it
with audio at similar data rates.

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Glenn Booth