From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Takashi Iwai Subject: Re: How do create a dummy device for recording audio? Does it exist already? Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 12:41:04 +0200 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: References: <4087CC4B.80402@crome.org> <1082665995.2539.28.camel@deeli.eee.strath.ac.uk> <4088380E.7070004@crome.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.5 - "Awara-Onsen") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4088380E.7070004@crome.org> Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Caleb Crome Cc: Arek Korbik , ALSA Devel List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org At Thu, 22 Apr 2004 14:24:30 -0700, Caleb Crome wrote: > > Arek, > That looks like what I want. However, I'm sorry to be such an > ignoramus -- what do I do with that bit of configuration data? I found > the /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf, and there is a similar pcm.file entry in > that, but it seems to take parameters. Since I have no sound card, how > do I configure my system to use the dummy PCM driver and use the > pcm.file plugin? you can specify the filename as the parameter of file plugin. for example, % aplay -Dfile:foo.raw bar.wav will dump bar.wav as the raw sample data to a new file foo.raw. Takashi ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The Robotic Monkeys at ThinkGeek For a limited time only, get FREE Ground shipping on all orders of $35 or more. Hurry up and shop folks, this offer expires April 30th! http://www.thinkgeek.com/freeshipping/?cpg=12297