gnome-sound-recorder voice encoder should be mono

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