[FFmpeg-user] I'm playing audio on my Linux PC from the WWW. Can I record it to a file with ffmpeg?

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

James Board <jpboard2 <at> yahoo.com> writes:

> > > > FFmpeg can record from alsa, oss, jack and pulse (and 
> > > > this is of course documented).
> > 
> > > can you please show me where it's documented
> > 
> > http://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-devices.html
> > Where did you search?
> 
> Yes, that's where I looked.  But none of the examples worked.

You did not test FFmpeg...

> > > ffmpeg -f alsa -i hw:0,2 alsaout.wav
> > > ffmpeg version 0.8.9-4:0.8.9-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
> > 
> > This is not FFmpeg but an intentionally broken version 
> > with several hundred known bugs not present in FFmpeg, 
> > some of them security-relevant. 
> 
> I don't understand.  Why do you think it isn't ffmpeg?

The version as such does not exist in FFmpeg.

> I installed it on ubuntu with 'apt-get ffmpeg'. 

Yes, the Ubuntu maintainer of the package called 
"FFmpeg" is unable to see his conflict of interest (and 
holds you and all other Ubuntu users hostage), see 
http://blog.pkh.me/p/13-the-ffmpeg-libav-situation.html 
for more information.

> > Please understand that  we therefore cannot support it 
> > here, see  http://ffmpeg.org/download.html for
> > supported versions.
> > (Do NOT use the PPA, it is horribly outdated.)
> 
> What is PPA?

I don't know (I don't use Ubuntu for obvious reasons), 
but please don't use it, it is outdated.

Carl Eugen