> I would like to record directly from my DAT recorder (48 kHz) via SPDIF. > As a greenhorn in harddisk recording I expect that there should be a way > to get an exact copy of the data on the tape with no input level / mixer > and no DA-AD conversion in between?! > > Unfortunately so far I did not succeed in recording from the SPDIF-input > at all. I am just able to route the DAT signal to the analog line out by > setting its volume using alsamixer. But the SPDIF-in does not appear in > other mixers like kmix and the signal is not available in recording > programs like audacity or krecord. :-( > > I am using: > > - SuSE 8.2 / kernel 2.4.20 / i86 > - alsa 0.9.0 > - emu10k1 > - Soundblaster live! rev. 4

i don't have an spdif source, so i can't test, but it used to work on my sblive when i set the capture flag in alsamixer on "IEC958 Coaxial" *and* the "capture" channel.