On Wed, 02 May 2007 00:19:06 +0100
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> Hi,
>
> It will depend on your sound card. I am able to select the "capture"
> to be the output mix using the alsa mixer (intel8x0). But this means
> (in my case) the signal goes into the analog domain and is not as clean
> as I would like.
>
> There are other ways to capture the sound, for example
>
> http://www.vsound.org/
>
> It might not suit your case if several programs are generating the
> sound opening and closing /dev/dsp.
>
>
> Why not physically connect the output of your sound card to the input :-)
> You just need the right cable ? (Make sure the output is not
> monitoring the input to avoid feedback)
>
>
> cheers Paul
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Quoting Paul Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > hi -- googling, i can find quite a few people asking about this,
> > but no clear answers.
> >
> > is it possible to capture the mixed output? i.e., capture what i hear?
> > most people seem to want this in order to capture streamed sources, but
> > in my case it's simply to record the output of a script that generates
> > sound snippets separated by silence -- i need to preserve the overall
> > timing of the sequence.
> >
> > i'm guessing that the answer is "no", given that alsamixer won't let
> > me select the output channel as the capture device, but perhaps there's
> > a trick i don't know.
> >
> > thanks,
> > paul
> > =---------------------
> > paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (arlington, ma, where it's 59.7 degrees)
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This a very frequently asked question - can't ALSA developers provide
a generic solution that would work with any card ?
I've been thinking about 'ecasound' and JACK, for example, to use such
a chain (if I'm not mistaken):
ALSA -> JACK -> ecasound --+--> JACK -> ALSA
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Regards,
Sergei.
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