On Sun, 21 Nov 2021 14:37:17 +0100, Hauke Fath wrote: > Has anybody successfully used the pipeline alsa-libs -> > alsa-plugins-oss on NetBSD?
As a data point, an attempt to record 10 seconds through alsa will hang indefinitely, and leave an empty file stub: % arecord -v -N -f cd -t wav recording.wav Recording WAVE 'recording.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo ALSA <-> OSS PCM I/O Plugin Its setup is: stream : CAPTURE access : RW_INTERLEAVED format : S16_LE subformat : STD channels : 2 rate : 44100 exact rate : 44100 (44100/1) msbits : 16 buffer_size : 16384 period_size : 4096 period_time : 92879 tstamp_mode : NONE tstamp_type : GETTIMEOFDAY period_step : 1 avail_min : 4096 period_event : 0 start_threshold : 1 stop_threshold : 16384 silence_threshold: 0 silence_size : 0 boundary : 4611686018427387904 ^CAborted by signal Interrupt... % ls -l recording.wav -rw-r--r-- 1 hauke wheel 16428 Nov 22 11:58 recording.wav % file recording.wav recording.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 16 bit, stereo 44100 Hz % So, while playing audio that way works, it looks like recording through the alsa oss plugin is plain broken. Cheerio, Hauke -- Hauke Fath <ha...@espresso.rhein-neckar.de> Linnéweg 7 64342 Seeheim-Jugenheim Germany