On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 04:11:31AM +0000, Long Wind wrote: > even simple task like recording from line in can't be donethough i try very > hard > mencoder has many advanced featuresall seem useless > > maybe alsa is at fault??or because of poor documentation? > i had used openbsd, it's > easyhttps://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq13.html#confaudiomaybe i shall switch to > bsd
This is probably a side effect of (lack of) familiarity, combined with your penchant for command line Ultimate Control (TM)(C)(R) (I too share this penchant :) You know years ago I tried using Red Hat (pre-Fedora) for a couple days, but my frustration with the differences in /etc and the various adminning commands, left me squarely back on Debian (this was also before my CoC fight with Debian CoC too :) I have found that as long as I installed the right packages with an XFCE desktop, sound (e.g. with Audacity and VLC) works just fine, including "basic recording" using the line in. A few years back I was also running a full jackd/ jack-audio stack, Ardour (yum!) and a shirt tonne of sfx plugins - damn I love GNU/Linux! :) Yum yum! But yes, the joy of such an incredibly yummy, fully libre man, fully libre high end audio stack running on a simple line in and headphone out, required a little tinkering. Just made the result more enjoyable though :) Whatever you end up with, the libre journey is indeed a journey - it's not a final answer or "silver bullet on a gold plate handed to you with no thought needed on your part". Compared to 20 years ago, we have truly awesome libre software abarndance, for which I am very greateful to the 1000s of hackers who've made it happen. Cheers,
