Greetings: FWIW I recently tried recording the audio from a Flash animation at joecartoon.com. No joy, I couldn't do it. If I armed the record channel the audio failed from the animation and would not start again until I disarmed the channel and restarted the Flash show. Audio was fine and available for everything else during all this, it just wasn't available from the Flash stuff. Best regards, ++ dp Ed wrote: > Hi LAU, > > OK, after 4 hours on this and enough Googling to break my keyboard, I > have to admit defeat. > > What I Want To Do: > > 1. Load a web page containing a Flash Film > 2. Play the Flash Film > 3. Record any sound the Flash Film delivers to a WAV file. > 4. Maybe post-process the WAV into Ogg, MP3, etc. > > What I Have (Hardware + Software): > > 1. SB Audigy > 2. Alsa kernel drivers, 1.0.0 RC2 > 3. Alsa libs, 1.0.0 RC2 > 4. Jack, compiled with the above Alsa libs > 5. Ecasound, compiled with the Alsa libs and Jack > > What works: > > 1. Sound from CD, System beeps, etc. works > > What doesn't work: > > 1. Alsa: arecord -f cd -o test.wav, when playing an Ogg file, e.g. > 2. Ecasound: ecasound -i:alsahw,0 -o test.wav, when playing an Ogg > file, e.g. > > Am I missing something fundamental here? I can't imagine that this is > an especially arcane wish, simply wanting to record and play at the > same time, yet I can't find anything on this which helps. I have > played with alsamixer for about an hour, but I simply get silence all > the time. All the 'capture' devices are things like Mic, CD, Line-In, > etc., which is, obviously, NOT what I want. I simply want to record > what I am currently hearing -- although I'm testing this with playback > of Ogg, actually I clearly want to record the sound from the Flash > Film mentioned. > > I have read the various docs for Alsa, Ecasound and Jack, but I have > to admit that sound on Linux is *very* confusing. I am not really sure > whether I'm supposed to be using /dev/dsp, alsahw, or some other > arcane terminologies -- kernel compilation is easy in comparison! I'm > not getting any errors, by the way, everything *seems* to work, but > when I stop playback and check the output, all I hear is dead air. > > I can (joyfully!) send the output of amixer if that would help, hope > to get a reply on this one soon. In Windows, this is a 5-minute > no-brainer. Install Total Recorder, and that's that. I can't imagine > that it must be so complex in Linux? First time I've really hit a wall > in Linux -- which clearly shows that sound is something which needs to > be clarified a *LOT* in Linux. (Having alsamixer start with everything > mute is a good example of this!) > > Thanks a million if anyone can help: otherwise I'm rebooting into > Windows for now, since there's no other way of doing this at the moment. > > Ed > >
