[linux-audio-user] recording with ecasound

[jordan muscott]

Tommi Sakari Uimonen wrote:

>>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.
>>    
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>-i alsa,spdif
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>for input, if spdif is defined in your .asoundrc
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>Tommi Uimonen
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Ah! Thankyou very much, you lead me to the answer. I haven't got an 
.asoundrc set up, but by looking at /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf whilst 
trying to set up my asoundrc, I noticed the following:

# some links for easy use
[snip]
pcm.spdif cards.pcm.iec958

so i try:

ecasound -i alsa,pcm.spdif -o test.wav

and I think it works. Now I just need to hope I get better recording 
results with this compared to arecord, and that the ****ing dat tapes 
that I am trying to make copies of stop their random glitching behavour 
:=( .

regards,  Jordan.