From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 8 17:40:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CBE937B400 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 17:40:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E490043E75 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 17:40:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76D832900D; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 20:40:16 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 20:40:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: Richard Tobin Cc: FreeBSD LIST Subject: Re: recording from line input In-Reply-To: <200208082254.XAA10247@rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Message-ID: <20020808203723.S84785-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Richard Tobin wrote: > I want to record audio from my sound card's line in. I'm then going to > record the output onto a CD. I'm familiar with writing CDs, but what's I would assume third party software would be the way to go. I know for Windows RealAudio has (or had a while back with v.2.0) an Encoder freeware program. > the easiest way to get the input? (To my surprise, cat seem to work: when I send the result back to /dev/dsp I just got noise.) > -- Richard If I recall correctly, /dev/dsp is the mic input -- and the quality isn't going to be very good. The command you tried won't work because cat can't make sense of the data stream, i.e. the input has to be redirected to an application that recognizes what is going on. Hope this helps some. -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message