-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 02:44:10PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > 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 :)
Exactly. Much and varied choice - plain ALSA + command line (that's how I swing) - Pulse Audio on top of ALSA + command line - some GUI program on top of that - full desktop goodness (e.g. gstreamer and GUIs on top of *that* ... Choice is good, but not always easy :) Add to that that the above "variants" (which are just a lame attempt from me at categorizing the vast field) come from different epochs and cater to different folks. From time to time someone thinks again his/her Way is the True Way and tries to eliminate everything else (I call that the Highlander Syndrome). Luckily, that doesn't seem to suceed 100% most of the times. As to mencoder (part of the mplayer suite): good choice. Very powerful. But difficult to learn and use. Cheers - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlmRa9YACgkQBcgs9XrR2kbMSwCfTM43Xx2946ryjt1U6akojPXm 0RYAn1/CW3ZWNkrLkG6oZA2uIkGrKyhz =Q1wv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----