Check your sample and bit rates. When I lest messed around with arecord I could get it to work with higher sample rates, but not at 8kHz. On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Toby Fisher wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm sure this has been covered somewhere before, but the archives didn't > unearth anything. > > I'm trying to get arecord working. > > I'm assuming I've plugged the mike into the correct socket on the sound > card as > 1. I get the same result (see below) for all available sockets, and > 2. I can hear the input to the microphone through my speakers when not > recording. > > I'm using a Soundblaster Live Value, the Alsa sound drivers seem to be > working fine, I can use both play and aplay to listen to wav files I > already have. > > The problem is, whenever I play back the files I've created, I'm greeted > with just silence. I've used alsamixer to set the input from the mike and > the line in, just to make sure, both to capture and unmuted, set the > volume to around 75%. > > What am I doing wrong? > > Btw, as an aside, it helps if subject lines say something about the > subject matter, not just "question" etc, as it means that there is some > chance of the archive serving its purpose. > > Thanks. > > > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org
