How to capture audio with FreeBSD?

[Jan Beich]

"Onno K." <onno.k at gmx.com> writes:

> # aplay -l
> aplay: device_list:273: no soundcards found...
> # arecord -l
> arecord: device_list:273: no soundcards found...

ALSA on FreeBSD doesn't support direct hardware access, it uses plugins
such as OSS, Jack, PulseAudio. Try instead:

$ pkg install ffmpeg
$ ffmpeg -f oss -i /dev/dsp foo.wav
<Type Q or Ctrl+C to quit>
$ ffmpeg -i foo.wav -f oss /dev/dsp
<Type Q or Ctrl+C to quit>