On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 09:00:11 -0700 "D. R. Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote these words:
> On 25 Jan 02, at 11:41, Nick Thompson wrote: > > > Just a thought, as I never recorded through arts, have you enabled full > > duplex operation in the kde control center->sound->sound server->sound I/O > > tab? I think you need to do this to play and record at the same time in > > It wasn't. I experienced thirty seconds of hope when I saw this. But > switching it to Yes didn't change anything. > > > arts. I'm assuming that your "artsdsp rec output.wav"command was run while > > you where playing something using real player. > > > > Yes. > > > Try something simple first, like recording a CD track. Click the red LED > > under the CD slider in kmix, play a CD using kscd (or whatever), then try > > "artsdsp rec output.wav". What do you get? (I've also never used rec, so I > > don't know if your syntax is correct. krecord is your friend :) > > > > I get the same as before: a WAV header but no other contents. > > krecord might be my friend if I could get it to do anything :-) After > building and installing according to the README, if I type "krecord" > all I get is a message that says `Xlib: extension "RENDER" missing on > display ":0.0"'. > > > Note that if you have set arts to full duplex mode, it will never > > release /dev/dsp so you will *have* to use arts for all sound I/O. If you > > turn off full duplex and wait for arts to disconnect (60secs by default?) > > the you can try the same as above but just use "rec output.wav". Now what > > do you get? Don't miss-spell and cause a konsole beep, since arts will > > reconnect for the beep and you'll have to wait 60secs again. > > > > I get a file of non-zero length (when trying to record from a CD). When > I play it back with a WAV player, I get no complaints about format or > anything, but all it plays back is silence. I checked it with a Windows > program that displays the actual waveform, and it agrees that the file > is a valid WAV file containing silence. > > This is all going to turn out to be some really stupid, simple > configuration option.... > > FWIW, this is all a stock LM 8.1 installation. Until I started trying > to record, I hadn't messed with any of the sound settings at all. They > are (or at least they were) all as set "out of the box". > > I'll take a look at your URLs over the weekend, when I've recovered a > bit from all this trauma :-) > Have you considered SoundStudio? http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/studio/SoundStudio-1.0.6.tar.gz It has always worked for me since LM 6.x, though I must admit I have never tried it under KDE and 'aaaaaarts' as I use other WM's It used to be inscluded in "contribs" though I have not seen it there in awhile. William Bouterse Talkeetna, Ak
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