Hi all, I'm writing to you in despair, it's been 5 days I've tried a lot of things, none is working. My soundcard cannot handle recording on just one channel (it's a USB card). I'm running ubuntu Hardy 8.04 with kernel 2.6.24.rt . The problem is that the program I'm running is written to be use with mono audio stream, and I don't want to enter the code too far. I have access to the part of code that implement alsa functions. I was thinking that I can convert the stereo stream into mono stream by using the .asoundrc file and by declaring plug or plughw, but I can't get it to work, I have various error like : ALSA lib pcm.c:6569:(snd_pcm_slave_conf) Invalid slave definition arecord: main:546: audio open error: Invalid argument Here is the .asoundrc : pcm.rate_convert { type plug slave { pcm "hw:1,1" rate 48000 channels 1 } } Can anyone explain me how to write a proper plu or plughw that will do the trick? Thanks so much in advance! Bruno. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user