Re: [Alsa-user] arecord default settings

2007-12-22 Thread John Haxby
Mark Constable wrote: On 22 December 2007 13:24, Lee Revell wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ arecord -D plugfile out.wav Recording WAVE 'out.wav' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono [snip] Seems weird to have default settings for a format that I have never ever seen in practical

[Alsa-user] arecord default settings

2007-12-21 Thread Mark Constable
On 22 December 2007 13:24, Lee Revell wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ arecord -D plugfile out.wav Recording WAVE 'out.wav' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono arecord does not do any kind of format detection on its input. It records with whatever format you tell it to (in this case, the

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord default settings

2007-12-21 Thread Bill Unruh
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Mark Constable wrote: On 22 December 2007 13:24, Lee Revell wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ arecord -D plugfile out.wav Recording WAVE 'out.wav' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono arecord does not do any kind of format detection on its input. It records with whatever

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord default settings

2007-12-21 Thread Mark Constable
On Saturday 22 December 2007 14:41:39 Bill Unruh wrote: Why couldn't the arecord defaults be what would most likely be the most common settings of 16 bit, Rate 44,100 Hz, Stereo ? Because then your counterpart would complain that since his sound card was 48KHz, 24 bit, why did they not

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord default settings

2007-12-21 Thread Roman Haefeli
On Sat, 2007-12-22 at 16:27 +1000, Mark Constable wrote: On Saturday 22 December 2007 14:41:39 Bill Unruh wrote: Why couldn't the arecord defaults be what would most likely be the most common settings of 16 bit, Rate 44,100 Hz, Stereo ? Because then your counterpart would complain