kevin ernste wrote: >>Is it possible to record from the spdif input? I've been googling >>quite >>a bit, and I don't understand if or how I can relate device or >>subdevice >>numbers to the spdif input. >> >> >> > >First of all, check you alsa.conf (slocate alsa.conf) to see if it >already has a spdif device listed, mine does. Try: > >cat /location/of/your/alsa.conf | grep spdif > >Mine says that... > >pcm.spdif cards.pcm.iec958 > >...is available, so to use aplay as an example, this would mean >something like these: > >aplay -D spdif mysound.wav >aplay -Dplug:spdif mysound.wav > Hi, Yes, I can also do this with aplay and arecord, however, i was having a few overuns with arecord and so decided to try ecasound instead. My problem is that I don't know how the "-D spdif" or "-D plug:spdif" translates to ecasound flags. Thanks, Jordan
