[ecasound] Help me troubleshoot my recording.

is the playtime of the file the expected time or is it shorter? i never
heard some corrupt file like this, but it sounds for me a little like
fast forwarding on a cd player. or the samples are just shuffled
around. the first thing i would try is recording from analog input and
see if that changes anything. if your problems disappear it's not
ecasound, could still be alsa, but most probably the problem is
outside of the computer. maybe:

- replace the optical cable
- try non-optical output, if you have coax (RCA) digital out
- test another receiver
- update firmware of receiver if thats possible

if it still happens with analog in, it's ecasound or alsa or
combination of both:
- try another recording software
- you could put jack before ecasound. this shouldn't make any
difference, but who knows

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 5:13 AM, 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
> --
> avuton
> --

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