Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder.usenetexpress.com!feeder-in1.iad1.usenetexpress.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2019 21:03:46 -0600 From: ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) Subject: Re: Low audio in recorded videos with desktop screen recorders. Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware References: User-Agent: tin/2.4.2-20171224 ("Lochhead") (UNIX) (Linux/4.19.13-300.fc29.x86_64 (x86_64)) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2019 21:03:46 -0600 Lines: 69 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 71.103.224.66 X-Trace: sv3-dPol+0dv6qdJ1WdMnijFhL0g6+7BgAxjWvTX9LGuwDHNEZmjRtr5dXFNUbSLcmzuXMCR9kGUlArvFhN!Trv8geCyxBC5xxX3ahZG64gt0h3lgpIBF2CBQMvaKxtNeNTSVRbNbW+8VWnwRMy8hwy9rPYgXWXg!mL9iZxojgHpoq7UMNnJI6DFhy6oN434= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 4692 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.hardware:3379 Ant wrote: > J G Miller wrote: > > On Sun, 17 Feb 2019 17:24:30 -0600, Ant wrote: > > On Sunday, February 17th, 2019, at 17:24:30h -0600, Ant explained: > > > I tried changing so many mixer volumes in ALSA, Pulse Audio, etc. in KDE > > > v4. It's confusing! My recorded videos' audios are always low. > > You should only change one thing at a time. > > And in order to track down the problem, the following points must be > > addressed: > > 1) Which application are you using to playback videos? Some applications > > have their own volume control which can sometimes (eg mplayer) be difficult > > to find how to adjust. > Many players like VLC, MPC-HC, etc. on multiple computers when I try to play the > recordings back. > > 2) Are you running pulseaudio? If so, when you fire up pavucontrol and > > go to the "Playback" tab (the first tab in fact), do you see in addition > > to System Sounds, your application name and a volume control slider? > > 3) If you fire up alsamixer, does it show pulseaudio as the first (default) > > device with volume control? The hitting F6, can you select the sound card > > device for your Intel onboard output. Warning, on changing the alsamixer > > volume control for the real sound card hardware device, some older pulseaudio > > setups had a habit of resetting the level by themselves, so attempting to > > change it manually actually served no purpose. > > Old versions of pulseaudio at times had major problems messing with > > sound levels and upgrading to a recent version (8.0 at least) would be > > a sensible course of action. > Hmm, maybe that's why: > $ dpkg -l |grep pulseaudio > ii gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio:amd64 0.10.31-3+nmu4+deb8u2 amd64 GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio > ii gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio:amd64 1.4.4-2+deb8u3 amd64 GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio > ii pulseaudio 5.0-13 amd64 PulseAudio sound server > ii pulseaudio-esound-compat 5.0-13 amd64 PulseAudio ESD compatibility layer > ii pulseaudio-module-x11 5.0-13 amd64 X11 module for PulseAudio sound server > ii pulseaudio-utils 5.0-13 amd64 Command line tools for the PulseAudio sound server > > The other issue is, are you actually recording the videos with a sensible > > audio level for playback? > Yes. When I just do my normal playing, it is fine. It's just my recordings' audio > volume isn't. > Now, the bad news. I lost the audio completely in my recordings. Argh. I need to > figure how to get it back even if it is low. I forgot to share my http://screenshot.cz/F5/F55QQ/audiomixers.gif screen capture if it helps. -- Quote of the Week: "As a thinker and planner, the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man..." --Mark Twain Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://aqfl.net & http://antfarm.home.dhs.org / / /\ /\ \ http://antfarm.ma.cx. Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail. | |o o| | \ _ / ( )