On 25 Jan 02, at 11:41, Nick Thompson wrote:

> Just a thought, as I never recorded through arts, have you enabled full
> duplex operation in the kde control center->sound->sound server->sound I/O
> tab? I think you need to do this to play and record at the same time in

It wasn't. I experienced thirty seconds of hope when I saw this. But 
switching it to Yes didn't change anything.

> arts. I'm assuming that your "artsdsp rec output.wav"command was run while
> you where playing something using real player.
> 

Yes.

> Try something simple first, like recording a CD track. Click the red LED
> under the CD slider in kmix, play a CD using kscd (or whatever), then try
> "artsdsp rec output.wav". What do you get? (I've also never used rec, so I
> don't know if your syntax is correct. krecord is your friend :)
> 

I get the same as before: a WAV header but no other contents.

krecord might be my friend if I could get it to do anything :-) After 
building and installing according to the README, if I type "krecord" 
all I get is a message that says `Xlib: extension "RENDER" missing on 
display ":0.0"'.

> Note that if you have set arts to full duplex mode, it will never 
> release /dev/dsp so you will *have* to use arts for all sound I/O. If you
> turn off full duplex and wait for arts to disconnect (60secs by default?)
> the you can try the same as above but just use "rec output.wav". Now what
> do you get? Don't miss-spell and cause a konsole beep, since arts will
> reconnect for the beep and you'll have to wait 60secs again.
> 

I get a file of non-zero length (when trying to record from a CD). When 
I play it back with a WAV player, I get no complaints about format or 
anything, but all it plays back is silence. I checked it with a Windows 
program that displays the actual waveform, and it agrees that the file 
is a valid WAV file containing silence.

This is all going to turn out to be some really stupid, simple 
configuration option....

FWIW, this is all a stock LM 8.1 installation. Until I started trying 
to record, I hadn't messed with any of the sound settings at all. They 
are (or at least they were) all as set "out of the box".

I'll take a look at your URLs over the weekend, when I've recovered a 
bit from all this trauma :-)

  Doc Evans

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