Re: [ecasound] important recording broke. why?

Subject: Re: [ecasound] important recording broke. why?
From: Kai Vehmanen (kai.vehmanen_AT_wakkanet.fi)
Date: Fri Mar 21 2003 - 16:10:13 EET

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On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, The Eye wrote:

> Yesterday I had an important recording (a radio-show I did) ... I had it
> scheduled via at, the same command I always use, i.e.
> ecasound -b:2048 -z:intbuf -z:db,200000 -r -ev -t:8400 -f:s16_le,2,44100
> -i:alsa,default -o:laermraw.raw
[...]
> (audioio-alsa) Read error! Stopping operation.

It seems that newer ALSA versions sometimes return an error code it
should not be doing according to documentation and that causes the above.
As a quick fix, bypass the ALSA plugin layer ('alsahw,0' instread of
'alsa,default'). I'll post a message about this to alsa-devel.

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