You wouldn't replace the file sink. Just call
wavefile_sink.open(new_file_name)
which will also automatically close the old file for you.
Instead of using a work function to count items, add a separate timer
thread to the python code that calls open() every 5 mins. Much simpler.
On Mon, Jan 1, 2024 at 11:44 PM Sreejith RK Nair <
sreejithrknair...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I have created a FM receiver using GNU and the output is fed to an audio
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> to edit the recording time in GUI, so I edited the python code to record
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> *current_time = datetime.datetime.now() elapsed_time = current_time
> - self.start_time if elapsed_time.total_seconds() >= REC_TIME_SEC:
> self.blocks_wavfile_sink_0.close() filename =
> 'E:\\Record\\{}.mp3'.format(current_time.strftime("%Y%m%d_%H%M%S"))
> self.blocks_wavfile_sink_0 = blocks.wavfile_sink(filename, 1, 48000,
> 8) self.start_time = current_time def
> check_and_create_file(self): current_time = datetime.datetime.now()
> elapsed_time = current_time - self.start_time if
> elapsed_time.total_seconds() >= REC_TIME_SEC:
> self.create_new_file() def work(self, input_items,
> output_items): current_time = datetime.datetime.now()
> elapsed_time = current_time - self.start_time
> self.total_items_written+=len(output_items[0]) # Call
> create_new_file multiple times if enough time has elapsed if
> elapsed_time.total_seconds() >= REC_TIME_SEC:
> self.create_new_file() current_time = datetime.datetime.now()
> elapsed_time = current_time - self.start_time return
> len(output_items[0])*
> Thank you in advance..
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