[Freevo-users] Recording through alsa

[Zeratul]

I updated the wiki with some info on recording through Alsa without OSS 
emulation in the btaudio page .

You have two options: use snd-bt87x (which is the alsa equivalent of 
btaudio) or use the line-in.
mencoder doesn't support btaudio (yet?) and the same problems arise with 
snd-bt87x, but it should work with mp1e with the patch from the wiki.
Access the snd-bt87x mixer through alsamixer -c 1 or alsamixer -D bt87x

For analog loopback cable recording add option 'alsa' to -tv options 
list, and take as adevice your soundcard (emu10k1 in my case)
adevice=/dev/adsp did NOT work for me (records only silence).

I have the following /etc/asound.conf:

pcm.emu10k1 { 
          type hw 
          card 0 
       } 

       ctl.emu10k1 { 
          type hw 
          card 0 
       } 

pcm.bt87x { 
          type hw 
          card 1 
       } 

       ctl.bt87x { 
          type hw 
          card 1 
       } 

Recording from line-in with the sound MUTED works, so I can use 
mplayer/mencoder for timeshift recording (of course, seeking doesn't 
work then).
Hope this is of any help for someone.

Zeratul



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