On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 15:44 +0200, Frank Barknecht wrote: > 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: Yep - arecord is not meant to be very useful - it's a reference implementation for ALSA application developers and for testing drivers. Lee