Re: [Alsa-user] Sampling Rates

[Jaroslav K. <pe...@su...>]

On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Mirko Horstmann wrote:

> Hello,
>
> just out of curiosity I played with arecord yesterday
> and tried several sampling rates on my M-Audio Audiophile 2496
> (ice1712 chipset). Now I'm confused about two things:
>
> 1. I always thought soundcards are limited two a few
>      fixed sampling rates (8000, 11025, 22050, 44100,...).
>      But arecord seems two record fine with any (odd) value I
>      try with the -r parameter.
> 2. I also made recordings with up to 120kHz which is funny
>      regarding the name of the soundcard and it's specifications.
>      Is this like with, say, processors, which are specified
>      for a certain clock speed but can be overclocked to a
>      certain amount? Or is there some resampling going on in
>      the alsa drivers?

The automatic resampling is available in our library. If you want to see
all hardware constrains, use 'hw:*' devices.

						Jaroslav

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