Re: why audio recording is so hard in Linux
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 02:44:10PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 04:11:31AM +0000, 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
> >
> > maybe alsa is at fault??or because of poor documentation?
> > i had used openbsd, it's easyhttps://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq13.html#confaudiomaybe i shall switch to bsd
>
> This is probably a side effect of (lack of) familiarity, combined
> with your penchant for command line Ultimate Control (TM)(C)(R) (I
> too share this penchant :)
Exactly. Much and varied choice
- plain ALSA + command line (that's how I swing)
- Pulse Audio on top of ALSA + command line
- some GUI program on top of that
- full desktop goodness (e.g. gstreamer and GUIs
on top of *that*
...
Choice is good, but not always easy :)
Add to that that the above "variants" (which are just a lame attempt
from me at categorizing the vast field) come from different epochs
and cater to different folks. From time to time someone thinks again
his/her Way is the True Way and tries to eliminate everything else
(I call that the Highlander Syndrome). Luckily, that doesn't seem
to suceed 100% most of the times.
As to mencoder (part of the mplayer suite): good choice. Very powerful.
But difficult to learn and use.
Cheers
- -- tomás
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux)
iEYEARECAAYFAlmRa9YACgkQBcgs9XrR2kbMSwCfTM43Xx2946ryjt1U6akojPXm
0RYAn1/CW3ZWNkrLkG6oZA2uIkGrKyhz
=Q1wv
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Reply to: