Hallo, Maarten de Boer hat gesagt: // Maarten de Boer wrote: > Could you explain what you mean with "much less reliable" ? > I often use arecord, and find it very reliable. arecord doesn't have a realtime priority mode, nuff said. If arecord works for you, that's cool, but as I needed something that would work daily, automatically and for years, I felt much better with ecasound. And the command lines are just as simple as with arecord: Record an ogg file from the "default" ALSA device: $ ecasound -i alsa,default -o some.ogg Record with realtime mode and double buffering: $ ecasound -rt -z:db -i alsa,default -o some.ogg Record this way for an hour: $ ecasound -t 3600 -rt -z:db -i alsa,default -o some.ogg Ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__