[sclug] capturing audio output of browsers?

[Alex Butcher]

On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, John Stumbles wrote:

> Alex Butcher wrote:
>
>> It seems ALSA can do this all by itself with the right magic:
>> 
>> <http://www.usenet-forums.com/linux-general/80133-how-capture-streaming-audio-alsa-linux.html> 
>
> As far as I can see that only lets you capture from ALSA apps that 
> conveniently let you specify a "-D fileout" option to select a specific PCM 
> device, and then you tell ALSA to redirect that device to a file.
>
> Or am I missing something?

We were talking about this in the context of Flash, right?

If so, it looks as though it might use the $FLASH_ALSA_DEVICE environment
variable.

If we were talking about Realplayer, it has device options in
Preferences->Hardware.

HTH,
Alex.
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