-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 09:15:04PM +1000, Mark Constable wrote: > I'm fiddling with some tools for my own needs and to see what may > be useful for collab interaction. Ecasound, in theory, could be > very useful because it's readily availble, gui/distro agnostic, > and howto usage is easy to paste in email/im/wegpage etc which > are good qualities for a general purpose tool. I've never had the > patience to give it a fair go and frankly, every time I try, I end > being frustrated (just like with Jack but that's ano...) > > Anyway, I found a snippet that had this recipe... > > 1. Start jack from qjackctl ( http://qjackctl.sourceforge.net/ ) > > 2. ecasound -G:jack,eca,recv -c -a:1 -i jack_generic,eca -o output.wav > ecasound> engine-launch > > 3. Open qjackctl and connect the ports. > > If you don't want to do 3. every time, then use the patchbay feature of > qjackctl and have it do it automatically. > > Pretty close to one thing I would like to do but I get this > error no matter what -i (or -o) combo I try... > > ecasound: ERROR: [ECA-SESSION] : "Audio object 'jack_generic' > does not match any of the known audio device types or file formats. > > and the same with jack_alsa and other similar options. Is it possible > that my particular ecasound is compiled without jack support ? > > Would anyone have any comments about the usefulness of ecasound > as a general purpose audio manipulation tool ? > > Is there another option that could be better ? > I use jack_capture. I love it. Would that be OK? - -ken -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHPjBUe8HF+6xeOIcRAmyrAKCV5miN6cDwQSGlOHTBsI5C7de2owCgmw52 g9k6CqGCHQZ1DeG/GNmkqG8= =sCNB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
