[alsa-devel] IEC958 / SPDIF raw capture

[Jaroslav Kysela]

On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, Donald Tournier wrote:

> Thanks Clemens, that very helpful. We'll try to source one of these
> C-Media cards as soon as possible.
>
> Also nice to know about the "hw:x" trick, although I'm not too sure
> how to use that in practice. I've just tried this command, with no
> success:
>
> $ arecord -D hw:x -t raw output.raw
> ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1435:(_snd_pcm_hw_open) Invalid value for card
> arecord: main:608: audio open error: No such device
>
> How exactly should this be used?

Note that 'x' means card number or name. Just use 0 if you have only one 
card in system or use 'arecord -l' to list cards.

 						Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex at perex.cz>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, Red Hat, Inc.