[Debian]Voice recorder - ecasound --> Help

[Rask Ingemann Lambertsen]

On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 01:30:52PM +0100, kimaidou wrote:
> Hi guys
> 
> I have a question : why not just pass the good parameters to arecord so that
> it recors in 8bit, Mono, 8kHz as :
> arecord -D hw -f S16_LE -t wav -c 1 -r 8000 myfile.wav

$ arecord -D hw -f S16_LE -t wav -c 1 -r 8000 myfile.wav
Recording WAVE 'myfile.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono
arecord: set_params:923: Channels count non available

$ arecord -D hw -f S8 -t wav -c 2 -r 8000 myfile.wav
Recording WAVE 'myfile.wav' : Signed 8 bit, Rate 8000 Hz, Stereo
arecord: set_params:918: Sample format non available

$ arecord -D hw -f U8 -t wav -c 2 -r 8000 myfile.wav
Recording WAVE 'myfile.wav' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 8000 Hz, Stereo
arecord: set_params:918: Sample format non available

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