On Windows you could use Sony Soundforge to capture any sound stream on the system, whether it's Wave, Synth or Line input sound. I can give it to you if you don't have it. WinAMP should be able to encode sound also, but I'm not sure how to set that up. I'm not sure what Linux has available.
What sound stream are you looking to capture, what's the source?
I seem to recall reading about there being some way to do this with Audacity ( which is free/open source, and fairly nice) -- but I can't recall how it was done. I don't believe it's an officially supported feature.
Well, there's a hardware side and a software side to the equation. Soundcards generally have but one dedicated input (line in). If you open the Volume applet in Windows, go to Properties, then Recording... you will see the available inputs for your hardware/software combination.
Consequently you have to connect the sound output with a stereo cable, to the line inputs on the card. Unless you have at least two available stereo outputs, you won't be able to monitor what you're recording (only visual levels).
This is all made simpler if you have two soundcards, of course.
Then, there's the software which needs to grab the audio frames from line in. Like I said, the Sony PC's come with Soundforge and Acid, both of which can record fine.
Consequently you have to connect the sound output with a stereo cable, to the line inputs on the card.
This seems like an unnecessary A/D conversion... which only adds noise to the recording.
I was hoping that I could do something to the driver, so that instead of feeding into digital sound output (the normal thing), it would go into digital sound input instead... without ever going analog.
You can do exactly what you want with the installed SoundMax drivers on the Sony PC. Or are you trying this on a different PC? Because on the Sony, you can go to Volume, Properties, Recording, and enable Wave Out Mix. This captures the Wave stream directly.
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Date: 2005-12-08 11:31 am (UTC)What sound stream are you looking to capture, what's the source?
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Date: 2005-12-08 05:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-12-11 10:24 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-12-11 08:30 pm (UTC)Consequently you have to connect the sound output with a stereo cable, to the line inputs on the card. Unless you have at least two available stereo outputs, you won't be able to monitor what you're recording (only visual levels).
This is all made simpler if you have two soundcards, of course.
Then, there's the software which needs to grab the audio frames from line in. Like I said, the Sony PC's come with Soundforge and Acid, both of which can record fine.
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Date: 2005-12-11 09:13 pm (UTC)This seems like an unnecessary A/D conversion... which only adds noise to the recording.
I was hoping that I could do something to the driver, so that instead of feeding into digital sound output (the normal thing), it would go into digital sound input instead... without ever going analog.
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Date: 2005-12-11 09:26 pm (UTC)You can do exactly what you want with the installed SoundMax drivers on the Sony PC. Or are you trying this on a different PC? Because on the Sony, you can go to Volume, Properties, Recording, and enable Wave Out Mix. This captures the Wave stream directly.
rip streaming media
Date: 2006-01-06 03:24 am (UTC)http://www.wmrecorder.com // shareware
Streambox VCR // freeware
http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/video_capture_tools/streambox_vcr_suite.cfm
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