Re: [Alsa-user] Recording a playback stream

[Jonathan L. <jon...@gm...>]

Sorry about that, Bill.  Maybe you are in text only mode.

http://programmablebrain.us/wiki/index.php? 
title=HOWTO:Record_a_Skype_Conversation/Linux

Best,

jonathan


On Aug 12, 2007, at 5:13 PM, Bill Unruh wrote:

> On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, Jonathan Leonard wrote:
>
>> I found this how-to for linux/skype/alsa users here.
>
> Would probably be more useful if you actually told us where you  
> found it.
>
>
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>
>> jonathan
>>
>> On Aug 10, 2007, at 10:32 PM, Edward Coffey wrote:
>>
>>> Is there any plugin or asoundrc trick that I can use to record a  
>>> playback stream?
>>> My situation is this: I'm using a USB headset with Skype 1.4 and  
>>> I'd like to record the conversation, but Skype provides no way of  
>>> doing this. The USB audio device doesn't provide any "mix" input  
>>> that I can record, the only capture stream it appears to produce  
>>> is the one from the microphone (which I _can_ record during a  
>>> Skype conference, but it's not all that useful without the other  
>>> voices). I have managed to record the two streams directly to raw  
>>> files using the File plugin, but this is less than ideal because  
>>> they then need to be manually aligned, and it appears that if  
>>> Skype is interrupted and re-opens the sound device, it will start  
>>> overwriting the output files from the start.
>>> What I'd like is to be able to set Audacity recording from a  
>>> virtual "mix" device, then start the Skype conference and have  
>>> Audacity record both my voice, and the voices of the others in  
>>> the conference.
>>> I'm using ALSA 1.0.14 in Debian (Lenny) for i386.
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ed.
>>