[Alsa-user] arecord with snd_hda_intel

2009-01-18 Thread Bernd Butscheidt
Hello, my sound card is a Realtek ALC888 onboard Chip. I want to use arecord to record the sound by another programme, eg. mplayer using alsa as output device. I wonder if this works at all. Should it? Every time I make something like: arecord -f cd -D hw:0,0 test.wav or arecord -f dat

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord with snd_hda_intel

2009-01-18 Thread Jim Cuzella
Bernd Butscheidt wrote: Hello, my sound card is a Realtek ALC888 onboard Chip. I want to use arecord to record the sound by another programme, eg. mplayer using alsa as output device. I wonder if this works at all. Should it? [...] Though I'm not an expert at doing this... I know it's

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord with snd_hda_intel

2009-01-18 Thread David McCloskey
Playing should not interfere with recording. I do the same thing with similar chipset. Make sure you go in to alsamixer, hit tab, and use spacebar and up and down to turn one of the capture volumes on and up, and set the capture source using up and down over on the right where it says line or

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord with snd_hda_intel

2009-01-18 Thread Bernd Butscheidt
Von: David McCloskey davemcclos...@gmail.com Playing should not interfere with recording. But this means on the other hand: I cannot record what I play?! Kind regards Bernd

Re: [Alsa-user] arecord with snd_hda_intel

2009-01-18 Thread David McCloskey
Oh, I misunderstood. You should look in to the programs Jim mentioned. I've never tried to do that either. On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Bernd Butscheidt bbutsche...@yahoo.de wrote: Von: David McCloskey davemcclos...@gmail.com Playing should not