On 24.04.2013 19:04, Bill Unruh wrote: > I have a Behringer uca222 soundcard, which handles 44100, 48000 and 16 bit > output/input. However if I run arecord, or aplay with "illegal" rates or bits, > they simply proceed as if nothing is wrong. > Eg > arecord -D default:CARD=CODEC /tmp/t -r96000 -c2 /tmp/t -N -d 2 -t raw -f S24_BE This is because by default, the plughw plugin will take over and do the sample rate and bit depth conversion for you. If you use "-D hw:X", ALSA will only allow formats that are supported by the hardware natively. Best, Daniel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, & servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_apr _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user