Record whole ensemble

[jpuigs]

Maybe some people don't need this, but the ones who mainly use DABlin to hear Satellite DAB feeds, know that sometimes we want to save the whole ensemble (ETI-NI), so we have to close DABlin, and open it again but finishing command line with > file.eti .
Then we can't hear what we are recording.
Would it be posible to add another record button, to record ensemble (.eti file) ?
(I understand it's easy to do, just to copy stdin to a .eti file)
Then, we could record without exiting DABlin.

[andimik]

I don't think this is necessary. You could use a fifo file instead, I guess.

[basicmaster]

A FIFO is equal to a pipe and thus has one input and one output. So a FIFO won't allow to distribute the signal to DABlin and to a file at the same time. Instead the tool tee can be used to split the signal e.g. eti-cmdline-rtlsdr (...) | tee /tmp/test.eti | dablin_gtk.

I agree it could be helpful to start/stop an ensemble recording on demand, while listening via DABlin. In general it should not be that hard. Thinking about it, I tend to restrict such feature to NOT allow to record a service and the whole ensemble at the same time: It would be more difficult to show the status and I don't like the idea to have two recording buttons. So I think, starting the recording with the Shift button pressed (or via a context menu) would do the job here. In addition, the prerecording feature is something I wouldn't implement for ensemble recording, as we are talking about a larger bandwidth, compared to just a single service.

[andimik]

Sorry, you are right.

[andimik]

I guess you can close this issue.

[jpuigs]

???

[basicmaster]

I guess you can close this issue.

For what reason? The desired feature is not yet implemented...