On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:18:40PM +0530, Yohan Pereira wrote > did you add alsasound to the boot process? > > i went 6 months trying to figure out what was wrong with my microphone > until i realised that i forgot to do that! > > also unmute the microphones using alsamixer (in alsa-utils) like > Hung sugested.
I had already unmuted everything before posting my question. With enough microphone boost, I have a hissing noise. I didn't know about alsasound being a daemon until today. With alsasound running, mencoder and ffmpeg and arecord now *THINK* that they are recording a sound channel. That's an "improvement", because they used to say "noaudio" before. But still nothing gets recorded. Here is a sample command I tried. arecord -f cd -t wav -c 2 -D plughw:0 foobar.wav Maybe I should go and buy an external microphone already. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
