[Alsa-user] are cheap USB cards with analog line input supported by ALSA ?

2012-04-29 Thread Juha Heinanen
i bought this last year and it has worked ok with alsa: http://www.dealextreme.com/p/virtual-5-1-surround-usb-2-0-external-sound-card-22475 probably not good for hifi use, but not a bad deal at USD 2.14! -- juha Apr 30 07:04:34 siika kernel: [ 1502.540355] usb 5-1: new full-speed USB device nu

Re: [Alsa-user] .asoundrc advice on recording format, rate, and channels

2012-04-08 Thread Juha Heinanen
Clemens Ladisch writes: > Juha Heinanen wrote: > > both speaker and mic work fine if i choose ALSA:default. > > what i would like to achieve is that i can use some other device than > > default for mic > > "default:x", where x is the card number or ID. so

Re: [Alsa-user] .asoundrc advice on recording format, rate, and channels

2012-04-08 Thread Juha Heinanen
Clemens Ladisch writes: > Don't these applications allow to set the sample rate/format? clemens, thanks for your reply. in one application i can only choose driver/device. the choices for speaker and mic are: ALSA:default ALSA:plughw:0,0 ALSA:other device if i choose the last option, i can w

[Alsa-user] .asoundrc advice on recording format, rate, and channels

2012-04-08 Thread Juha Heinanen
this kind of arecord command produces good quality output file on my laptop: arecord -D plughw:0,0 -f S32_LE -c 2 /tmp/test-mic.wav how should my .asoundrc look like in order to get the same effect without -D, -f and -c parameters? i have tried: pcm.internal { type hw card 0 format