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From: Christopher Butler <chrisb@sandy.force9.co.uk>
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Subject: New Feature Idea
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Hi!

I spotted the following in the Linux Gazette (issue 26):

|   Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 08:25:32 -0500 (EST)
|   From: Michael Stutz, stutz@dsl.org
|   Subject: Help Wanted: recording audio data
|
|   Is there any way to read and save the data that is currently being
|   played by the soundcard, regardless of the sound source?
|
|   (There is a program in alpha which does this called paudio, at
|   http://web.syr.edu/~jdimpson/proj/. It creates a readable /proc/audio
|   -- but I haven't yet gotten it to work with the OSS-compatible driver
|   produced by the Linux Ultrasound Project which I use.)
|
|   Michael Stutz

Perhaps we should implement this into the driver?

On another matter: Is anyone working on the C++ version of the ALSA
library? I'd be willing to have a go, mostly basing things on the C
version, at least until they're both the same functionality-wise.

Oh, and what is it that means that the 0.0.6 driver only works with
2.1.89? I'm running 2.1.88 here, as 2.1.89 doesn't want to boot for
me. :( Its just a bit of a pain that I can't use the latest driver.

--
Chris Butler <chrisb@sandy.force9.co.uk>

