In article , Davey
wrote:
On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:23:03 +0000 (GMT) Jim Lesurf
wrote:


You should be able to investigate that with the arecord command as
outlined in earlier postings. First by using -l and -L to find its
card identification numbers or strings. ... [snip]

Most of that we tried, and I got a silent recording, which led me to
agree with you that it probably doesn't provide a suitable format.

Thanks. OK, that's what I thought I recalled, but wasn't sure. Lacking
that, there isn't much point in delving into alsa until such time as the
EZCap might be shown to provide LPCM by some appropriate method. The
problem may not be with alsa, but the (possibly undefined in open info
terms) format it uses.

Some devices (e.g. the FUNcube I'm happily using) does provide the data
stream fine via alsa, despite the values not actually being audio. The
details are open, so easy to deal with.

At the moment, I have a system that will record using the desktop's
sound card, and then I can just move the file over to the laptop for
working with Audacity. The laptop's location is much more comfortable
than the desktop's! But I will try again, just to be sure.

OK. Sorry I can't help with this, but it looks like being a matter of the
device info being unknown and proprietary.

Slainte,

Jim

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