Re: [gentoo-user] Screenrecording with audio from firefox

[Daniel Sonck]

Yes, I realize it might not have been clear, as I got a bit confused by my own 
thought process as well.

I will also answer in pieces related to your questions

On Wednesday, June 3, 2020 5:31:43 PM CEST tuxic@××××××.de wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> sorry for not understanding the whole setup ...
>
> Please see my inserted questions below:
>
> On 06/03 04:44, Daniel Sonck wrote:
> > It might be that your Qt5 is perhaps partially updated or out of date
> > even,
> > but not sure. I do know that it can be a pain to compile due to Qt5
> > changing. If it's too much of a hassle to get it to work, Catia could be
> > replaced by QJackCtl, however then you will need to have the tweaks
> > Cadence does for you manually applied. Which, according to my system, is:
> >
> > pcm.!default {
> >
> >     type plug
> >     slave { pcm "jack" }
> >
> > }
> >
> > pcm.jack {
> >
> >     type jack
> >     playback_ports {
> >
> >         0 system:playback_1
> >         1 system:playback_2
> >
> >     }
> >     capture_ports {
> >
> >         0 system:capture_1
> >         1 system:capture_2
> >
> >     }
> >
> > }
> >
> > ctl.mixer0 {
> >
> >     type hw
> >     card 0
> >
> > ( In case you want to entirely not bother with pulseaudio )
>
> The above setup is for alsa/jack/obs...right.
> Since jackd does not start (it crashes) and I am currently not in
> the mood to fix an error which helps to fix a problem which should
> fix a problem for an application which in first place was there to
> help me to fix an issue to record from Firefox...I will try
> pulseaudio -- despite the fact, that I really don't like it.

The crash might be due to it not getting exclusive access to alsa or the sound 
card not properly selected. Yes that configuration is for alsa -> jack -> obs/
simplescreenrecorder

>
> > Or, like me where I have it set to pulseaudio mode which creates:
> Ok...the following is for alsa/pulseaudio/obs
>
> > pcm.!default {
> >
> >     type plug
> >     slave { pcm "pulse" }
> >
> > }
> >
> > pcm.pulse {
> >
> >     type pulse
> >
> > }
> >
> > ctl.mixer0 {
> >
> >     type hw
> >     card 0
> >
> > }
> >
> > This would go into a file .asoundrc in your $HOME and force ALSA native
> > programs to actually hook up as Jack clients,
>
> ...sorry...why jack? Do I need jack for pulseaudio?

Here I actually meant "using the first config file will force alsa native 
programs to connect to jack. Incidentally, the second solution will (usually) 
also work for alsa as it would do "alsa -> pulseaudio -> jack -> obs/
simplescreenrecorder", which is my default as I'm more accustomed to 
pulseaudio and jack (some programs like Discord really want pulseaudio)

>
> > so you can manage your audio.
> > Note that you would still need to go into QJackCtls settings to setup the
> > correct main audio device
>
> Pulseaudio->pavucontrol....right?

this was still related to the first asoundrc file.

>
> I am......irritated......at least....;)
>
> HEEEELLLLLLPPPP! :)

Well, I will make sure it eventually works one way or another :) as I know how 
frustrating sound can be sometimes. As I said, I create music, as such I want 
Jack, but I also want to watch youtube without having to tear down my music 
setup. And I stream from time to time, so I use Jack/Alsa/Pulseaudio all at 
the same time and have picked up some things along the way.

>
> Cheers!
> Meino
>

Regards,

Daniel

> > On Wednesday, June 3, 2020 4:30:11 PM CEST tuxic@××××××.de wrote:
> > > ‘QPainterPath ballPath’ has incomplete type and cannot be defined