From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Oct 7 9:16:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA9F737B401 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 09:16:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sunshine.math.utah.edu (sunshine.math.utah.edu [128.110.198.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EB4643E81 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 09:16:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjs@sunshine.math.utah.edu) Received: from sunfish.math.utah.edu (IDENT:bTBy/BOcmkojM0rTHBqb6f2Ry1tOGdcg@sunfish.math.utah.edu [128.110.198.233]) by sunshine.math.utah.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA23730; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 10:16:44 -0600 (MDT) Received: from localhost (cjs@localhost) by sunfish.math.utah.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA07475; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 10:16:42 -0600 (MDT) X-Authentication-Warning: sunfish.math.utah.edu: cjs owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 10:16:42 -0600 (MDT) From: Chris Staskewicz To: Karl Ewald Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: sound recording problems In-Reply-To: <077097E85A6BD3119E910800062786A90512DD56@muc-mail5.ixos.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Still no luck. However, if I reduce the record rate to 8 bits instead of 16, the sound comes out a little more clearer. This uses the recording program supplied with the Gnome. I think it's called "grecord". But there's still too much static and squeeking. I guess I'm confused about the recording rate. There's a sample rate, which is set to 48000 I believe. "grecord" lets you set this, as well as another parameter with values 8 or 16 (bit is the unit). Thanks, Chris. On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Karl Ewald wrote: > I wrote something along these lines to a different list the other day: > > While the mixer will pick up several sources and mix them to analog output, > to have to select one input for digitizing sound to the dsp interface. xmix > lets you select that and adjust the recording level. It defaults to > microphone input. > > Changing it to line-in and adjusting the recording level to >0 should help. > the other mixer settings are relevant for analog output only. > > Karl > > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Staskewicz [mailto:cjs@math.utah.edu] > Sent: Freitag, 4. Oktober 2002 07:10 > To: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: RE: sound recording problems > > > Hi BSD fans :) > > Right now I can send analog sound (from my mini-disc, stero, microphone, > etc.) into my soundcard (Soundblaster ???) via the Line-in or mic port, > and sure enough, the sound comes out very clear through the PC speakers > attached to the output. I can open a variety of mixer applications (gmix, > xmix, awemix, etc) and tinker with the sound. However, when I try to > record the sound with programs like (audacity, grecord, etc.) I get > nothing but high pitched squelching and ear-popping white noise. All > these programs attempt to read of /dev/dsp, the bit-rates can be set to 8 > or 16, and the sample rates can be set as well. But none of this seems to > work. Any help??? Thanks so much! > > Chris. > > PS when I used Linux in the past, this attempt to record worked just fine. > I've also noticed that a lot of people are coming up with some unique > ideas of their own by piping info off of /dev/dsp to raw files and then > doing some more magic to get the desired sounds. I'm not too savvy to > this... yet... > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Chris Staskewicz > http://www.ZyGob.com/cjs > http://www.math.utah.edu/~cjs > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message > -------------------------------------------------------------------- Chris Staskewicz http://www.ZyGob.com/cjs http://www.math.utah.edu/~cjs -------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message