[Openal] Re: Re: capturing audio from line in

[Chris Robinson]

On Saturday 25 October 2008 12:31:06 pm Daniel Chaves Toscano Dantas wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> I'm using OpenAL Soft 1.5.304.
> It's available at http://kcat.strangesoft.net/openal.html as a tarball
> distro. Is this version stable for capturing purposes ?

It should be, relatively. The thing that stands out to me though is that the 
names aren't formatted like 1.5 would format them:
snprintf(name, sizeof(name), "ALSA Capture on %s [%s]",
         cname, dname);
but your list is conspicuously missing the [] section. You can use ldd to make 
sure the executable is loading at the right lib.

If it is, you can run:
arecord -l
to get a list of capture devices. Then in ~/.alsoftrc, you can try setting:
[alsa]
default = plughw:x,y
where x,y are the card and device numbers respectively of the listed devices. 
Opening "ALSA Capture on default" will then open the named device, which 
hopefully one of them will be the mic.