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import sys
import time
import getopt
import alsaaudio
def usage():
sys.stderr.write('usage: recordtest.py [-c <card>] <file>\n')
sys.exit(2)
if __name__ == '__main__':
card = 'default'
opts, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], 'c:')
for o, a in opts:
if o == '-c':
card = a
if not args:
usage()
f = open(args[0], 'wb')
# Open the device in nonblocking capture mode. The last argument could
# just as well have been zero for blocking mode. Then we could have
# left out the sleep call in the bottom of the loop
inp = alsaaudio.PCM(alsaaudio.PCM_CAPTURE, alsaaudio.PCM_NONBLOCK, card)
# Set attributes: Mono, 44100 Hz, 16 bit little endian samples
inp.setchannels(1)
inp.setrate(16000)
inp.setformat(alsaaudio.PCM_FORMAT_S16_LE)
# The period size controls the internal number of frames per period.
# The significance of this parameter is documented in the ALSA api.
# For our purposes, it is suficcient to know that reads from the device
# will return this many frames. Each frame being 2 bytes long.
# This means that the reads below will return either 320 bytes of data
# or 0 bytes of data. The latter is possible because we are in nonblocking
# mode.
inp.setperiodsize(160)
loops = 1000000
while loops > 0:
loops -= 1
# Read data from device
l, data = inp.read()
if l:
f.write(data)
time.sleep(.001)
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