[MPlayer-users] invalid VBR header. help, please

[Nico Sabbi]

Mauro Condarelli wrote:

>
> How can I record directly from bt878 audio?
> someone suggested using the btaudio kernel module, but that does not 
> look right, since that's an oss module, while I use (to be precise: 
> "debian sarge uses") alsa and I know the bt87x module is loaded. I can 
> also set for recording using "alsamixer -c1", but I have been unable 
> to divine what to pass to the "-tv ...:alsa:device=" parameter. The 
> fine manual says to look at the "-ao alsa" option, but I found that 
> slightly cryptic :-(.  If it is of any use: my /proc/asound/devices 
> contains:
> ================================
>  0: [0- 0]: ctl
> 20: [0- 4]: digital audio playback
> 27: [0- 3]: digital audio capture
> 26: [0- 2]: digital audio capture
> 25: [0- 1]: digital audio capture
> 16: [0- 0]: digital audio playback
> 24: [0- 0]: digital audio capture
> 33:       : timer
> 32: [1- 0]: ctl
> 57: [1- 1]: digital audio capture
> 56: [1- 0]: digital audio capture
> ================================
>

one of the captures I guess.
My saa7134 has something similar: an onboard audio decoder that passes 
data through pci.
I use oss, not alsa, so my command line is
-tv  ...:adevice=/dev/dsp1: ...

and remember to use aumixer once after module load.