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On Sunday 13 February 2011 22:10:42 Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:18:40PM +0530, Yohan Pereira wrote |
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> > did you add alsasound to the boot process? |
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> > i went 6 months trying to figure out what was wrong with my microphone |
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> > until i realised that i forgot to do that! |
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> > also unmute the microphones using alsamixer (in alsa-utils) like |
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> > Hung sugested. |
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> I had already unmuted everything before posting my question. With |
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> enough microphone boost, I have a hissing noise. I didn't know about |
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> alsasound being a daemon until today. With alsasound running, mencoder |
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> and ffmpeg and arecord now *THINK* that they are recording a sound |
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> channel. That's an "improvement", because they used to say "noaudio" |
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> before. But still nothing gets recorded. Here is a sample command I |
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> tried. |
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> arecord -f cd -t wav -c 2 -D plughw:0 foobar.wav |
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> Maybe I should go and buy an external microphone already. |
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I do not have your hardware, but on my laptop I could not get the microphone |
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to work until I switched on the digital capture and selected "Digital" under |
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Input Source in alsamixer. For some reason it would not work with any other |
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setting. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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