Tips And Tricks

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Recording sound output of a program:

  1. Many onboard card offer a 'vol' mixer control. If this is used as a recording source, than the current sound output will be recorded. Note that this is the mixed total of all sound played, not of a single program.
    ossrecord -ivol blah.wav
  2. vmix loopback driver can record the output of a program. Set vmix_numloops to 1 (or more) in vmix.conf, and make the program output to the newly created /dev/oss/vmix0/loop0 device. Than record from that device. e.g.
    ossplay test.wav -d/dev/oss/vmix0/loop0 &
    ossrecord test2.wav -d/dev/oss/vmix0/loop0
  3. OSS wrappers can be used to record the output of a program. vsound is one such wrapper. (vsound can't handle output to /dev/oss/* device nodes).
    vsound ossplay test.wav