[LAU] Record from M-Audio 2496 S/PDIF input

[Fons Adriaensen]

On Sat, Aug 02, 2014 at 11:40:48PM -0700, Len Ovens wrote:
 
> So, after you have jack running try running:
> zita-a2j -d hw:0,1 -r 48000 -p 256 -n2 -c 2
 
> This assumes your USBDualTubePre is set to 48000... and you have set
> Jack that way too :) Change the 48000 to 44100 otherwise. This would
> show up in qjackctl as zita-a2j capture_1 and 2 (does here)

Just use 

   zita-a2j -j spdif -d hw:0,1 -r 48000 -p 256 -n2 -c 2

to get correct port names.
 
> if you don't have zita-a2j (you should download it) you can test
> with alsa_in instead.

Wouldn't recommend that, and zita-a2j is included as an internal
client with recent Jack1 releases anyway. It can even be started
in one command together with Jack.

> The -p value (with zita-a2j) can be one step less than you have jack
> set (I may get corrected :) and -n should be the same.

There are no such restrictions.

Ciao,

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