Hi, It will depend on your sound card. I am able to select the "capture" to be the output mix using the alsa mixer (intel8x0). But this means (in my case) the signal goes into the analog domain and is not as clean as I would like. There are other ways to capture the sound, for example http://www.vsound.org/ It might not suit your case if several programs are generating the sound opening and closing /dev/dsp. Why not physically connect the output of your sound card to the input :-) You just need the right cable ? (Make sure the output is not monitoring the input to avoid feedback) cheers Paul Quoting Paul Fox <pgf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > hi -- googling, i can find quite a few people asking about this, > but no clear answers. > > is it possible to capture the mixed output? i.e., capture what i hear? > most people seem to want this in order to capture streamed sources, but > in my case it's simply to record the output of a script that generates > sound snippets separated by silence -- i need to preserve the overall > timing of the sequence. > > i'm guessing that the answer is "no", given that alsamixer won't let > me select the output channel as the capture device, but perhaps there's > a trick i don't know. > > thanks, > paul > =--------------------- > paul fox, pgf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (arlington, ma, where it's 59.7 degrees) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-user mailing list > Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
