recording sound

toyfactory toyfactory at xsmail.com
Wed May 25 11:32:32 UTC 2005


Hi, I want to use my USB webcam to record sound (it's the closest I have
to an external microphone right now) but I can't get it to work with the
Gnome sound recorder.  It appears in the list of devices in the Gnome
mixer but doesn't show any sliders to adjust.  It seems that the device
has no mixer controls - is it possible to use it as an input source for
sound recording in Gnome?

I can use the thing to record sound directly from the device by doing
"cat /dev/dsp1 > recording", I can play back by doing "cat recording >
/dev/dsp" but I have no control over the recording volume.  I also have
no idea how to use the file in other programs - is it 'raw' audio?

Any suggestions?

Nick




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