From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tom Watson Subject: Audio only I/O on audio-video things. Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:39:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <874435.46428.qm@web65406.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> Reply-To: tsw@johana.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from web65406.mail.ac4.yahoo.com (web65406.mail.ac4.yahoo.com [76.13.9.26]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with SMTP id 3D0E91038C8 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:39:53 +0200 (CEST) List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org In my musings, I bought a video input device that by its nature also has audio (stereo) inputs (the video was baseband NTSC/PAL). I was wondering if one could configure one of these devices to be an 'audio only' and be used with ALSA? I understand that there might be a conflict with which set of drivers (V4L, or ALSA) latches onto the device, but I could control that thru some configuration file. I just need a "cheap" stereo audio input device for my laptop, and since I already have the video unit, and it HAS audio inputs, I thought it might work. The capture device is USB if that matters. Am I dreaming about this being able to work? Is the audio samples that are generated by such a device other than 16bit PCM? Has anyone done such a thing (I don't see it mentioned much)? Any other thoughts? Thanks. -- Tom Watson tsw@johana.com