Radio station show logger with VideoLAN/VLM ?

[rjamesd]

I want to use VideoLAN software as a logger to log recordings of the audio programme/show broadcast output of my local community station. I'd like to record the broadcast as an analogue input from the studio into a sound card on a PC and have VideoLAN record this as mp3 files. It would record constantly, 24/7 365 days a year but the resultant files would be 1 hour long each. So for a day there VideoLAN would have generated 24 x 1 hour long mp3 files.

Anyone done this?

This is for 3 reasons 1) we have to by regulation keep full broadcast output logs for 42 days (Ofcom in the UK) in case of complaints (we already have a logger, but this would be a better solution) 2) So that presenters can review shows and improve 3) so that live guest interviews/shows can be archived for replay

I know that VideoLAN can take an audio source from a soundcard and I know that it can record audio to a file, and the VLM scheduler can possibly be used to set the duration, time length of the recording. But I need to know the set up options. Either a settings on the commandline or on the gui version is fine. Perhaps even a scripted command line solution.

I need to delete the oldest files after 42 days to avoid overflow and filling up the hard disc.

I want this for Debian 4 Etch, though if you know about the Windows version I think I would be able to apply your solution because I assume the command line console or windows settings are common across all platforms.

There are commercial packages out there but I'm looking to do this for free - save money as we have little cash and I will share any findings here.

I've already searched all over the VideoLAN pages, wiki, forum and have not quite found what I'm looking for but I'm pretty confident it can be done. Perhaps a combination of several VideoLAN instances running, piping one into the other maybe.

Here are some examples of my searching (just to show you that I have made an effort and tried to find a solution to my problem before asking!)
http://www.videolan.org/doc/streaming-h ... to-en.html

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=34311&p=106005&hili ... rd#p106005

viewtopic.php?f=14&t=39964&p=130735&hil ... rd#p130735

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3760&p=11695&hilit= ... ine#p11695

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=45048

http://wiki.videolan.org/Knowledge_Base