[linux-audio-user] Recording from SPDIF with Audiophile

[Frank Barknecht]

Hallo,
lau at hippie-online.de hat gesagt: // lau at hippie-online.de wrote:

> Hm, I am a bit averse from upgrading because I am afraid that this may
> result in conflicts with all that YaST stuff (and actually I do not need
> dmix for recording). Do I also have to build a new kernel to upgrade
> ALSA?

Maybe not the whole kernel. I do't know how SusE does this, but you
might get away with just recompiling your ALSA modules.

> Sounds like a good idea to me. Anyhow I think that arecord is the
> perfect tool for recording from DAT - if it works... ;-)

Yes, arecord is the reference. If arecord doesn't work, probably
nothing else wiill work. But the perfect (command line) tool for
recording is ecasound!

ciao
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 Frank Barknecht                               _ ______footils.org__