Recording from lin problem

[Gregory Nowak]

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Greg


On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 07:07:24PM +0100, 'Georgina' wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> I wondered if anyone could shed some light what's wrong here.  I'm
> trying to record from a stereo source coming in via the line in of a
> Sound Blaster Live Value.
> 
> Firstly I tried with the latest of alsa release candidate one.  I tried
> many things but for example, if I entered the following:
> 
> arecord -f cd test.wav
> 
> The file would claim to be stereo but be only in one channel.
> 
> I removed alsa and selected the SB Live in the kernel config and built a
> new kernel.  So after playing around with aumix, I got my line in source
> playing and gave it the R record status.  I found that I could not put
> the -c 2 and -r 44100 together.  The version of sox requires that
> effects are stated after the filename.  So successful commands are:
> 
> rec -c 2 -f s -s w test.wav
> 
> rec -f s -s w test.wav -r 44100
> 
> rec -c 2 -f s -s w test.wav -r 22050
> 
> In other words I can record in cd quality only in mono.  Or stereo
> recordings will only work at a rate of 22050 and not at the cd quality
> that I wish to use.
> 
> The fact that the alsa and the sox route aren't working suggests that it
> is a hardware problem but it seems odd.  I'm confident that I have
> enough resources to make stereo recordings.  As it is a Athlon 1.4
> processor 256 RAM and I've plenty of free disk space somewhere 10 Gb.
> BTW:  How do you establish exactly how much disk space is free?
> 
> We know also that the sox version is dodgy too as the rec script is
> currupt, so this could be the problem as I've borrowed the rec script
> from the previous version.  I'm using:
> 
> sox: Version 12.17.3
> 
> All I want to do is to make a stereo cd quality recording.  Any
> suggestions of what the cause of my problems are please?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
> Gena
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