On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 11:07:19 +0000
Davey wrote:

On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 15:37:01 +0000
John Legon wrote:

Jim Lesurf wrote:

I don't have an EZCap. So can't do any tests. Davey reports the
EZCap as giving alsa device ID numbers and strings. But then says
he gets 'empty' streams (0 values) when using these with arecord.
Which indicates something somewhere isn't set up correctly by him.
But I can't tell what the problem may be from here. :-)

If things are not correctly set then it's certainly possible for
the device to initialize OK but to give a completely blank
recording...

Jim and John and Andy,

Ok, back after yesterday's alcoholic birthday party (not mine).
I've also had some time to do some thinking:

Thought 1. Since this laptop, for whatever reason, doesn't want to run
Audacity, which is the one editing programme I am familiar with, and
it is having all these problems getting audio using either the EZCap
or the Hauppauge, I think I will abandon this approach. I have other
things to fix, such as no audio when playing a video clip in Firefox,
so this one I will lay aside.


I fixed the no-audio with video clips by disabling the .asoundrc file!


Thought 2. The old Desktop, which is now used for Zoneminder in a
different room, used to run Audacity, AND it has a real soundcard.
Using it would mean moving the (quite large) cassette player down
there, and finding somewhere to put it, but it is likely to work. I
will be loading Audacity back onto it later this morning.

It certainly loads Audacity, and appears to be ready to do something if
I had a connection line-in.

Thought 3. I have an old HP/Compaq laptop, which just sits keeping
cardboard boxes anchored to the floor, so I might just try that in
the same way that I was trying to get this laptop to work, with the
dongles. Since it has no other duties, I can do whatever I like with
it, without worrying about messing anything up.


It loads Audacity, and appears to be ready to do something if
I had a connection line-in. Later on.

Now to work out how to have the benefit of the .asoundrc file, without
having the disadvantage of having the .asoundrc file.

--
Davey.