Re: [Alsa-user] recording from SPDIF input w/ M-Audio =?iso-8859-15?q?Audiophile=0A=202496?= (thread 2)

[Andreas <an...@hu...>]

Dick Middleton wrote:
>
> Andreas H=FCnnebeck wrote:
> > [..]. Calling arecord with
> >
> >   arecord -D spdif_cap -d 5 xxx.wav
> >
> > results in the error message:
> >
> >   ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1175:(_snd_pcm_hw_open) card is not defined
> >   arecord: main:503: audio open error: Invalid argument
>
> Wow - I've been trying to do this for ages.  Thanks for the pointer.
> What you've just said works for me.  I had to do:
>
> arecord -D spdif_cap:1 xxx.wav
>
> because my 2496 card is #1.    Maybe you need spdif_cap:0 ???

Great, that's it:

  arecord -D spdif_cap:0 xxx.wav

Works wonderful. Thanks a lot. A copy of this mail goes to Karl Fogel who
had the same problem.=20

I use my PC as a time controlled audio recorder using perl scripts started
by 'at'. If someone likes to have these scripts please let me know.

best regards
Andreas
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