On 08/13/17 21:11, Long Wind wrote:
even simple task like recording from line in can't be donethough i try very hard mencoder has many advanced featuresall seem useless
I prefer Audacity, but it has a graphical user interface.
maybe alsa is at fault??or because of poor documentation?
Perhaps if you cut and pasted your mencoder commands and their output into a reply, somebody familiar with mencoder could help you.
i had used openbsd, it's easyhttps://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq13.html#confaudiomaybe i shall switch to bsd
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it". David