[Alsa-user] A soundcard to record IEC958_SUBFRAME from MiniDisc

2017-08-21 Thread Mark Hills
I have a large number of personal MiniDisc recordings which I want to preserve as FLAC format. Losing track markers would be a huge inconvenience, so I can't use an analogue recording. After a recommendation, my attack plan is: * Acquire a soundcard that has toslink input, and supports IEC9

Re: [Alsa-user] A soundcard to record IEC958_SUBFRAME from MiniDisc

2017-08-25 Thread Mark Hills
On Mon, 21 Aug 2017, Clemens Ladisch via Alsa-user wrote: > Mark Hills wrote: > > a soundcard that has toslink input, and supports IEC958_SUBFRAME_* > > sample formats > > In practice, PCI cards with a CMI8738/CMI8768 (not CMI878x) chip. Many thanks for this; I acquired a

Re: [Alsa-user] A soundcard to record IEC958_SUBFRAME from MiniDisc

2017-08-25 Thread Mark Hills
On Fri, 25 Aug 2017, chris hermansen wrote: > Mark and list, > > On Aug 25, 2017 04:17, "Mark Hills" wrote: > > > On Mon, 21 Aug 2017, Clemens Ladisch via Alsa-user wrote: > > > > > Mark Hills wrote: > > > > a soundcard that has tosli

Re: [Alsa-user] Streaming audio over home network w/ alsaloop & [m]trx

2018-09-23 Thread Mark Hills
On Sun, 2 Sep 2018, Caelia Chapin wrote: [...] > Anyway, I found a document entitled "Streaming desktop audio on Linux > without PulseAudio or JACK" ( > http://www.pogo.org.uk/~mark/trx/streaming-desktop-audio.html), which > seems to address my need, and I have followed the recipe up to the poi

[Alsa-user] Loopback snd-aloop expected behaviors

2020-05-19 Thread Mark Hills
I'm trying to understand snd-aloop and whether my experiences are of buggy software or I'm doing something wrong. # modprobe snd-aloop # echo "Layla3G,0,0" > /proc/asound/Loopback/timer_source For example; if I try the simplest action of playing some audio and recording it: $ aplay -D hw

Re: [Alsa-user] PCM plugin last

2020-05-27 Thread Mark Hills
On Wed, 27 May 2020, Clemens Ladisch via Alsa-user wrote: > Robert Bielik wrote: > > I’d like to know if there is any way to get the following sound chain > > through ALSA: > > > > Mediaplayer -> dmix -> LADSPA -> plughw:0,0 > > The dmix plugin plays shared-memory tricks with the ring buffer and

Re: [Alsa-user] documentation for error codes?

2020-06-07 Thread Mark Hills
On Fri, 5 Jun 2020, D. R. Evans wrote: > Many functions say about the return value: > 0 on success otherwise a negative error code > > Where is the documentation for the various possible "negative error code"s? I > am seeing a -32 under a specific set of circumstances, but don't know what > tha

Re: [Alsa-user] Digigram VX222v2 no VX-compatible cards found with vxloader

2022-02-01 Thread Mark Hills
On Tue, 7 Dec 2021, Venn wrote: > I picked up a Digigram VX222v2 to play around with and hopefully do a > video on. Curious if anyone has one running on a modern-ish system? [...] Not recently, but I do still own one an original VX222 (not v2), and have a motherboard with a PCI slot. Searching