[linux-audio-user] recording with ecasound

[jordan muscott]

kevin ernste wrote:

>>Is it possible to record from the spdif input? I've been googling
>>quite 
>>a bit, and I don't understand if or how I can relate device or
>>subdevice 
>>numbers to the spdif input.
>>
>>    
>>
>
>First of all, check you alsa.conf (slocate alsa.conf) to see if it
>already has a spdif device listed, mine does.  Try:
>
>cat /location/of/your/alsa.conf | grep spdif
>
>Mine says that...
>
>pcm.spdif cards.pcm.iec958
>
>...is available, so to use aplay as an example, this would mean
>something like these:
>
>aplay -D spdif mysound.wav
>aplay -Dplug:spdif mysound.wav
>
Hi,

Yes, I can also do this with aplay and arecord, however, i was having a 
few overuns with arecord and so decided to try ecasound instead. My 
problem is that I don't know how the "-D spdif" or "-D plug:spdif"  
translates to ecasound flags.

Thanks, Jordan