patrick keshishian wrote: > I should have been more specific with my question and subject line: I > don't see where aucat's "-f device" values are documented. > I suppose you overlooked sndio(7).
> Googling finds old (google-cached) current.html pages, circa 2009, > suggesting using 'aucat -f sun:1' for /dev/audio1. However, this at > first failed: > > $ aucat -f sun:1 -m rec -o /tmp/test.wav > sio(sun:1|): busy loop, disconnecting > This should work, unfortunately (according to ratchov@) there's possibly a bug in the (obscure) buffering of USB audio devices which makes this fail for some devices. (Mine happens to be 2-ch, 24-bit @ 44100 Hz, in case that matters) > A bit more googling finds this post[1] suggesting addition of "-z 256" > to aucat, which seems to make things work. > > $ aucat -z 256 -f sun:1 -o /tmp/test.wav > ^C > So, yes, in this case it's necessary to specify a buffer size. (in my experience many buffer sizes will work, the one aucat calculates just doesn't)
