Howto capture and record anything going to your soundcard with linux+jack+oss2jack
Moving from primarily print to radio journalism I’ve been relearning how to tell stories. I’ve also been forced to add some computer skills to my toolbox.
Some time back I was working on a piece where I wanted to use a sound clip from a movie. This turned out to be a lot harder than I thought. I knew that some rerouting in qjackctl must be the right way to get it done, but I couldn’t get any of the video players to output to jackd. I realized that the development snapshots of mplayer had jack support so I tried to compile that but gut stuck in dependency hell and gave up.