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Features
=========
* little system dependencies: python2 and ffmpeg
* The interface is extremely simple to use
* You can have nested recording (ie: to record an interview inside of a whole
show)
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does it all. It also means that authorization must be done on another layer
(for example, your webserver could add a Basic Auth)
How does it work
================
We suppose that you have a continous recording of your radio broadcasting.
What techrec does is taking files from this directory and "cutting/pasting"
parts of them. This can boil down to something like
```sh
ffmpeg -i concat:2014-20-01-00-00.mp3|2014-20-01-00-01.mp3 -acodec copy -ss 160 -t 1840 foo.mp3
```
Implementation details
======================
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possible.
The encoding part is delegated to `ffmpeg`, but the code is really modular so
changing this is a breeze.
changing this is a breeze. To be quicker and avoid the quality issues related
to reencoding, the codec "copy" is used: this means that input and output must
have the same format.