Re: [linux-audio-user] recording with ecasound

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] recording with ecasound
From: jordan muscott (morsecode_AT_blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: Wed Oct 08 2003 - 00:05:59 EEST

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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