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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Need help on getting raw audio stream from a
	dummy	sound card
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:25:03 +0100
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At Thu, 5 Mar 2009 08:34:03 -0800 (PST),
Santo Chow wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone :)
> 
> I'm currently assigned to a task that requires me to capture raw audio stream from a dummy sound card. Is this even possible?

You can use aloop driver in alsa-driver tree for such a purpose.
Then you can capture streams freely from the currently running playbacks.


Takashi