Re: sound recording questions

2003-11-19 Thread Bill Reid
Since you have a rec option in your mixer  I would go ahead and set 
the record input (which you probably already did)

mixer -f /dev/mixer[device] =rec [ line, mic ]

When you run mixer you should see
...
Mixer videois currently set to  75:75
Recording source: mic
So I got my recording source in mixer output.

Also you could try giving the program the actual device /dev/dspW0.1 
instead of a symlink  Maybe it will like that better.

The only other thing I can say on the topic is that many full duplex 
cards (I am not at all familiar with yours) can do full duplex but may 
only do 8 bit in one direction and 16 bit in the other.
So they may be trying to set AFMT_S16_LE or AFMT_STEREO in both 
directions, which might not work.  They should be doing AFMT_U8 on 
playback and AFMT_STEREO on recording .

Not sure if this helps you.  My only recording interests were to "Tivo" 
Radio talk show Mainly Art Bell.

Um.  So I just have some crappy program and some scripts.  I have not 
been played with anything else related to recording.

Best wishes,

-=Bill

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hello all,

a couple of questions:

1) have any of you had success installing ardour (ardour.sf.net)?  if so, could you
please contact me to review the steps taken?
2) audacity users:  i currently have audacity-1.0.0_2 installed (audacity.sf.net).
even though it invariably hiccups an error message about /dev/dsp not being a
valid playback device, it does provide playback.  i cannot, however, seem to get it
to record.  i've scoured both google and the audacity mailing lists, but no luck.
for what it is worth, i do have 1 recording channel...

 

cat /dev/sndstat
   

FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm)
Installed devices:
pcm0:  port 0x1400-0x14ff irq 5 at device 8.0
on pci0 (4p/1r/4v channels duplex)
i have also fiddled with the mixer settings in pretty much every way imaginable

 

mixer
   

Mixer vol  is currently set to  75:75
Mixer pcm  is currently set to  75:75
Mixer speaker  is currently set to  75:75
Mixer line is currently set to  75:75
Mixer mic  is currently set to  75:75
Mixer cd   is currently set to  75:75
Mixer rec  is currently set to  75:75
Mixer ogainis currently set to  50:50
Mixer line1is currently set to  75:75
Mixer phin is currently set to  75:75
Mixer phoutis currently set to  75:75
Mixer videois currently set to  75:75
when i try to record, audacity complains about not being able to record and
playback simultaneously under unix.  when i try to change the program's
preferences so that it does not try to do both at the same time, i uncheck
a couple of boxes and hit 'ok'.  however, as soon as i hit 'ok', audacity whines
again about /dev/dsp not being a valid device and refuses to accept the changes.
sigh.

any suggestions you might have regarding getting recording working with this program
would be VERY much appreciated.  thanks for your time.
cheers,
epi
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sound recording questions

2003-11-11 Thread epilogue
hello all,

a couple of questions:

1) have any of you had success installing ardour (ardour.sf.net)?  if so, could you
please contact me to review the steps taken?

2) audacity users:  i currently have audacity-1.0.0_2 installed (audacity.sf.net).
even though it invariably hiccups an error message about /dev/dsp not being a
valid playback device, it does provide playback.  i cannot, however, seem to get it
to record.  i've scoured both google and the audacity mailing lists, but no luck.

for what it is worth, i do have 1 recording channel...

> cat /dev/sndstat
FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm)
Installed devices:
pcm0:  port 0x1400-0x14ff irq 5 at device 8.0
on pci0 (4p/1r/4v channels duplex)

i have also fiddled with the mixer settings in pretty much every way imaginable

> mixer
Mixer vol  is currently set to  75:75
Mixer pcm  is currently set to  75:75
Mixer speaker  is currently set to  75:75
Mixer line is currently set to  75:75
Mixer mic  is currently set to  75:75
Mixer cd   is currently set to  75:75
Mixer rec  is currently set to  75:75
Mixer ogainis currently set to  50:50
Mixer line1is currently set to  75:75
Mixer phin is currently set to  75:75
Mixer phoutis currently set to  75:75
Mixer videois currently set to  75:75

when i try to record, audacity complains about not being able to record and
playback simultaneously under unix.  when i try to change the program's
preferences so that it does not try to do both at the same time, i uncheck
a couple of boxes and hit 'ok'.  however, as soon as i hit 'ok', audacity whines
again about /dev/dsp not being a valid device and refuses to accept the changes.

sigh.

any suggestions you might have regarding getting recording working with this program
would be VERY much appreciated.  thanks for your time.


cheers,
epi
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