On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:49:52AM +0100, Jan Stary wrote: > This is yesterday's current. Trying to record a _mono_ > sound with 'aucat -C 0:0 -o file.wav' seems to always > result in a _stereo_ file, whether I specify -u or not, > whether the aucat server is running or not > (see script and dmesg below). > > I used file(1) to look at the resulting file, > but also play'd it with sox and ffplay - it is > indeed stereo, with one chanel silent (and one channel > containing what I wanted to record into a mono file). > > Am I missing something obvious? >
no, this is a bug in aucat (it uses -c instead of -C for recording, which is wrong). This should fix the problem -- Alexandre Index: aucat.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/aucat/aucat.c,v retrieving revision 1.79 diff -u -p -r1.79 aucat.c --- aucat.c 11 Jan 2010 13:06:32 -0000 1.79 +++ aucat.c 14 Jan 2010 12:45:58 -0000 @@ -542,7 +542,7 @@ aucat_main(int argc, char **argv) fa = SLIST_FIRST(&ofiles); SLIST_REMOVE_HEAD(&ofiles, entry); if (!wav_new_out(&wav_ops, fa->name, - fa->hdr, &fa->ipar, fa->xrun)) + fa->hdr, &fa->opar, fa->xrun)) free(fa); } while (!SLIST_EMPTY(&sfiles)) {