Re: [linux-audio-user] digital capture from minidisc?

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] digital capture from minidisc?
From: Lincoln A. Baxter (lbaxter_AT_netreach.net)
Date: Thu Dec 20 2001 - 04:23:53 EET

dave willis wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Charles G Waldman wrote:
>
>
>>Where do you find out about the meaning of the "-D" flag in arecord?
>>Where does 0,0 come from? Thanks!
>>
>
> arecord --help 2> /tmp/ar ; less /tmp/ar ; rm -f /tmp/ar
> (not knowing how new you are. i really wish --help went to stdout...)
>
> you can "arecord -L" to list other defined pcm devices. it will include
> your .asoundrc file. 0,0 means the first card, and the first
> interface/device on that card. so, for my second soundcard, it's
> plughw:1,0, and plughw:1,n for its other devices.
>
> -dave
>
>

To get stderr to go to stdout do this:

arecord --help 2>&1 | less

# 2>&1 says: append stderr to stdout once you have done that,
# you can just pipe to less the way you normally would pipe stdout

Lincoln

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