Re: [linux-audio-user] xrun madness

Hi, Joel Roth suggested "simplifying" my xrun problem by recording with ecasound and see if I get xruns (rather than with jackd and ardour - thanks, Joel!). I've built ecasound and am trying to get a simple multitrack recording happening, while monitoring at the same time. I don't know much about ecasound, so here's what I've tried: ecasound -r -b:256 -a:1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 -f:16,8,48000 -i alsa,default \ -a:1 -o mono-1.wav \ -a:2 -o mono-2.wav -erc:2,1 \ -a:3 -o mono-3.wav -erc:3,1 \ -a:4 -o mono-4.wav -erc:4,1 \ -a:5 -o mono-5.wav -erc:5,1 \ -a:6 -o mono-6.wav -erc:6,1 \ -a:7 -o mono-7.wav -erc:7,1 \ -a:8 -o mono-8.wav -erc:8,1 \ -a:all -o alsa,default I can hear the inputs, but the mono-*.wav files are essentially empty (44 bytes each). If I remove the last line, the mono-*.wav files record ok. But, of course, I can't hear it while recording. Can anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong (I suspect it is something about opening alsa,default twice, but I don't really know). I want to get this working with ALSA (if possible), then try it jack. I will then see what happens with xruns at each step of increasing "complexity." Thanks! Joel