Arecord produces silence.

[Janina Sajka]

Check your sample and bit rates. When I lest messed around with arecord I could get it to work with higher sample rates, but not at 8kHz.

On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Toby Fisher wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm sure this has been covered somewhere before, but the archives didn't
> unearth anything.
> 
> I'm trying to get arecord working.
> 
> I'm assuming I've plugged the mike into the correct socket on the sound
> card as
> 1.  I get the same result (see below) for all available sockets, and
> 2.  I can hear the input to the microphone through my speakers when not
> recording.
> 
> I'm using a Soundblaster Live Value, the Alsa sound drivers seem to be
> working fine, I can use both play and aplay to listen to wav files I
> already have.
> 
> The problem is, whenever I play back the files I've created, I'm greeted
> with just silence.  I've used alsamixer to set the input from the mike and
> the line in, just to make sure, both to capture and unmuted, set the
> volume to around 75%.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Btw, as an aside, it helps if subject lines say something about the
> subject matter, not just "question" etc, as it means that there is some
> chance of the archive serving its purpose.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> 

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