Re: why audio recording is so hard in Linux

[David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>]

On 08/13/17 21:11, Long Wind wrote:
> even simple task like recording from line in can't be donethough i
> try very hard mencoder has many advanced featuresall seem useless

I prefer Audacity, but it has a graphical user interface.


> maybe alsa is at fault??or because of poor documentation?

Perhaps if you cut and pasted your mencoder commands and their output
into a reply, somebody familiar with mencoder could help you.


> i had used openbsd, it's
> easyhttps://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq13.html#confaudiomaybe i shall
> switch to bsd

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it".


David