On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 01:07:55PM +0000, Richard Fitzgerald wrote: > On Wed, 2016-11-16 at 18:35 +0530, Vinod Koul wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 11:44:09AM +0000, Richard Fitzgerald wrote: > > > This patch adds a -I command line option to set the codec ID, > > > either from a defined set of string values or as a number. > > > > Can you explain why you want to add this? The utility cant really record a > > mp3 file! > > > > > > You need to be able to pass a codec ID that the driver supports, and to > indicate which codec you're trying to use. It's not useful to only be > able to open the "PCM" codec. It doesn't really matter whether crec > understands the content of the data, we're just pulling raw data, most > likely for test/debug. > > The wm_adsp driver on Wolfson/Cirrus codecs uses the new BESPOKE stream > ID so we need a way to pass that. And we'd also need it for any drivers > that had streams using other codec IDs. > Is the objection here not that crec is wrapping the data with a WAV file? Should we perhaps just expand this so that if you request a different format it uses the raw data mode that it uses when you let the output go to stdout. Thanks, Charles _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
