Re: [ecasound] Help me troubleshoot my recording.

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Avuton Olrich <avuton@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I record Sirius Satellite Radio daily 24 hours / 7 days a week over
> optical toslink cable. I've been doing this for over 2 years now.
>
> About 2 months ago my recordings started failing, in the range of 7
> to 24 hours. At the end it sounds like the stream gets corrupted.
> After the corruption anything I try to rip from this raw files is all
> blank (or maybe it's quit recording completely). I have attached a
> link[1] to a sample of when it goes bad (less than 1MB in FLAC). It
> seems most obviously a ALSA problem, but I'm not sure. This problem
> started on 6-8-2008, though nothing obvious appears in my logs as to
> why this started happening then. No strange ecasound output appears
> before this happens.
>
> My execution line is:
> ecasound -r -i alsa,hw:Audigy2 -z:db,1000000 -z:intbuf -o
> /realtime/2008-08-18/blah.raw
> It was this way since before this started happening.
>
> This is reproducable with ecasound 2.4 and 2.5
>
> [1] http://avuton.googlepages.com/end.flac

Forgot to mention an important detail that after ecasound is restarted
things record correctly again 100% of the time. I usually reset
ecasound for recording every 24 hours at midnight PST, unless I find
out earlier that it has stopped recording (which happens >95% of the
time now).

-- 
avuton
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