[lug] Converting RealAudio to MP3

[Tony Dyson]

Check what options your mixer offers for your soundcard. My old SB16 has 
"capture" as a possible recording source in the new mixers. The older 
mixers (pre Alsa) referred to it as "igain".

Chip Atkinson wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I just tried something like this and only succeed in capturing nothing but
> quiet.  Eventually I just tried
> cat /dev/dsp > dspstuff 
> 
> od -xc just shows 
> 0000000 8080 8080 8080 8080 8080 8080 8080 8080
>         200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200
> etc.
> 
> Any ideas why you can do this and I can't?  I tried /dev/audio and
> /dev/dsp as myself and /dev/dsp as root with the same results.
> 
> Thanks in advance!