Encoding live audio

I'm new to Tiger, but have two Panthers, all networked. I want to download audio from analog to my hard drive. My old mac 9 did this transparently, creating AIFF files, but I can't figue out how to do it in OSX 10.3.9 or 4. I've tried iMovie, which works, but out paces my hard drive so I can only get about a minute or so per track. Any suggestions? I don't want to buy Quick Time Pro, unless that's my only option.
MacBook, iMac350, Power PC g4 Dual Mac OS X (10.3.9) and 10.4, latest update

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Hi all,
I would like to know how to configure the processor to encode live audio to a-law datasource. I got something like this when I tried to start processor:
Failed to build a graph for the given custom options.
Failed to realize: com.sun.media.ProcessEngine@765a16
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Unable to transcode format: LINEAR, 44100.0 Hz, 16-bit, Stereo, LittleEndian
, Signed
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outputting to: RAW
Error: Unable to realize com.sun.media.ProcessEngine@765a16
Thanks.

I think the format has to be one of those included in the getSupportedFormats().
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Once format is set, the processor can be realized and started
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I think that in your case, transcoding 16-bit to 8-bit was the problem.
Also, capturing at lower than 44100.0hz when transcoding to alaw 8000 could be considered, I mean capturing at 8000.0hz could work too

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Hi sorry for my english,im try to create a radio online, but
don't find what is the best option to transmit single audio in
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FME locks up good ! FME freezes . FME Stops sending streaming audio .
// I hope this is posted in the correct forum.
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I wanted to confirm some steps in order to stream Live Audio from FMS to a mobile device using HTTP Streaming and HTML 5 audio/video tags. I have a system setup like below:
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<manifest xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/f4m/1.0">
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</manifest>
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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well i tried this once for one of my scripts and the final conclusion is its not possible to combine two streams into 1.....how would you time/encode the two voices......there is no know solution to this in flash. If you continue on despite me and find a solution please post it so we can explain to rest of world.

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