On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Carlos Hernandez wrote: > I know... and that's the reason why I can specify that, using the asound.conf. > > The source audio file is in 16 bit, 44100, stereo... but when I > record with arecord, it does with 8bit, 8k, mono. > > So I must change this before arecord "record" the audio... where? .. I > suppose this should be in asound.conf (or .asoundrc)... setting in the > plug parameters "format", "channels" and "rate"... this way : arecord -f cd >outfile > > pcm.plugfile{ > type plug > slave { > pcm infile > format S16_LE > channels 2 > rate 44100 > } > } > > but this does not work... > > > thanks anyway > > > > On 22/12/2007, Lee Revell <rlrevell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Dec 21, 2007 9:39 PM, Carlos Hernandez <dspcarlos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Here the "format", "rate" and "channels" are set up, and these are the >>> same as the original audio file. Then I suppose I would not have to >>> specify these parameters with arecord. >>> running arecord: >>> >>> carlos@chaos:~$ 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 default >> of 8Khz 8-bit mono) >> >> Lee >> > > > -- William G. Unruh | Canadian Institute for| Tel: +1(604)822-3273 Physics&Astronomy | Advanced Research | Fax: +1(604)822-5324 UBC, Vancouver,BC | Program in Cosmology | unruh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Canada V6T 1Z1 | and Gravity | www.theory.physics.ubc.ca/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user