Re: [Alsa-user] FIle plugin and format change

[Lee R. <rlr...@jo...>]

On Dec 21, 2007 9:39 PM, Carlos Hernandez <dsp...@gm...> wrote:
> Here the "format", "rate" and "channels" are set up, and these are the
> same as the original audio file.  Then I suppose I would not have to
> specify these parameters with arecord.
> running arecord:
>
> carlos@chaos:~$ arecord -D plugfile out.wav
> Recording WAVE 'out.wav' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono
>

arecord does not do any kind of format detection on its input.  It
records with whatever format you tell it to (in this case, the default
of 8Khz 8-bit mono)

Lee