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Re: why audio recording is so hard in Linux

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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
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why audio recording is so hard in Linux Long Wind <longwind2@yahoo.com> - 2017-08-14 06:20 +0200
  Re: why audio recording is so hard in Linux Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2017-08-14 06:50 +0200
    Re: why audio recording is so hard in Linux <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-08-14 11:30 +0200
  Re: why audio recording is so hard in Linux David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-08-14 07:20 +0200
  Re: why audio recording is so hard in Linux deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-08-14 09:30 +0200
  Re: why audio recording is so hard in Linux Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> - 2017-08-14 09:30 +0200
    Re: why audio recording is so hard in Linux Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2017-08-14 11:10 +0200
    Re: why audio recording is so hard in Linux Long Wind <longwind2@yahoo.com> - 2017-08-14 13:40 +0200

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