[Alsa-user] arecord overrun, what do the numbers mean?

2016-06-01 Thread Andrew Bryant
My system is recording from a dsnoop device. The output is a cd/wav file, 40 minutes long. There are occasional errors: overrun!!! (at least 1254345987.621 ms long) My assumption is that the buffering is insufficient to catch all the audio all the time. Question 1, what does the number mean?

[Alsa-user] arecord overruns & buffers

2016-03-10 Thread Andrew Bryant
I am a little puzzled by the following error reported by arecord. overrun!!! (at least -1601693626.382 ms long) The record command is a line is a shell script: nice -19 arecord -D $DEVICE -t wav -c 2 -f cd -d $TIME $OUT/$1 2>> $LOGS $DEVICE is plug:dsnoop $TIME is 2400 $OUT and $LOGS are local

[Alsa-user] Alsa: Simultaneous recordings

2016-03-02 Thread Andrew Bryant
I wish to record three continuous streams of audio plugged to soundcards on a non-X Linux server. The recordings should dat format files, nominally of 30 minutes length. So far, so easy. For ease of subsequent editing, there needs to be overlap of, say, 2 minutes between consecutive files. S

[Alsa-user] No /etc/init.d/alsa

2007-05-13 Thread Andrew Bryant
I have a Fedora Core 6 system, which has no /etc/init.d/alsa file, although it claims to have all the alsa rpms installed. yum install alsa-base returns with "Nothing to do" yum remove alsa-base returns "No Match for alsa-base" Can anyone shed any light on this? Thanks, Andrew.

[Alsa-user] documentation for snd-hda-intel module

2007-02-21 Thread Andrew Bryant
appen when the system is using WinXP. Is there any documentation with the source code? Do I need to install the entire kernel source tree to get to it? Andrew Bryant. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT