[linux-audio-user] recording with ecasound
jordan muscott
morsecode at blueyonder.co.uk
Tue Oct 7 17:24:00 EDT 2003
kevin ernste wrote:
>>Is it possible to record from the spdif input? I've been googling
>>quite
>>a bit, and I don't understand if or how I can relate device or
>>subdevice
>>numbers to the spdif input.
>>
>>
>>
>
>First of all, check you alsa.conf (slocate alsa.conf) to see if it
>already has a spdif device listed, mine does. Try:
>
>cat /location/of/your/alsa.conf | grep spdif
>
>Mine says that...
>
>pcm.spdif cards.pcm.iec958
>
>...is available, so to use aplay as an example, this would mean
>something like these:
>
>aplay -D spdif mysound.wav
>aplay -Dplug:spdif mysound.wav
>
Hi,
Yes, I can also do this with aplay and arecord, however, i was having a
few overuns with arecord and so decided to try ecasound instead. My
problem is that I don't know how the "-D spdif" or "-D plug:spdif"
translates to ecasound flags.
Thanks, Jordan
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