[LAU] Capturing ALSA

Nigel Henry cave.dnb at tiscali.fr
Thu Oct 25 14:39:38 EDT 2007


On Thursday 25 October 2007 20:14, Leslie P. Polzer wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 10:34:39AM +0200, leslie.polzer at gmx.net wrote:
> >> I'm sure there must be a way to capture audio being played via ALSA.
> >> Can anyone tell me how?
> >
> > see http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Record_from_pcm
>
> Whoo, thanks! Works like a charm.
>
> Interestingly, it doesn't work with Audacity; PortAudio might be
> the culprit here. I can't seem to use hw0:2 devices at all.
>
> Out of curiosity, is there an equivalent for OSS?
>
>   Leslie

If your asking about using audio apps that use OSS, and not Alsa, you need to 
install the alsa-oss package.

Nigel.



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