[pulseaudio-discuss] Microphone no longer recording

[Terry]

Thank you.  I have tried recording in a different user account with no more success.

When you say to "play with the headset microphone volume" do you mean to try different volumes on the Input Devices tab?  Is louder better or less loud?

Thanks for replying.

Regards, Terry



----- Original Message -----
> From: Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi>
> To: Terry <terauck-pulse at yahoo.com.au>
> Cc: "pulseaudio-discuss at lists.freedesktop.org" <pulseaudio-discuss at lists.freedesktop.org>
> Sent: Monday, 21 January 2013 5:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Microphone no longer recording
> 
> On Sun, 2013-01-20 at 20:33 -0800, Terry wrote:
>>  Hello.  I have been unable to find a solution to this problem.
>> 
>>  At first I thought it was a problem with Skype because I was able to
>>  hear callers but they couldn't hear me.  I tried adjusting the PA
>>  controller in various ways, none of which resulted in a successful
>>  Skype test call in that each time my message was not played back to
>>  me.
>> 
>>  Subsequently, however, I discovered that recording to Audacity does
>>  not work.  I am able to create a create a .wav file using a script
>>  created by a member of my distro's forum.  The file should have
>>  contained a record of what I spoke into the microphone.  I tried
>>  several times selecting either the headset or its monitor as the
>>  recording device and played the files with VLC.  No message was
>>  audible during playback.
> 
> Don't bother with the monitor. From the headset monitor you get the same
> audio that you play to the headset.
> 
>>  There are a number of PA files relating to microphone configuration
>>  and they all seem to state that the microphone volume is off.  Of
>>  course, I don't know whether to or how to alter those files.
>> 
>> 
>>  I have snapshots taken during several attempts to record messages.  To
>>  avoid this email being treated as spam, this is a broken link to the
>>  folder containing the snapshots: http:// xanthon.minus.com/m7lGta1kR
> 
> It's visible in the "PA input tab" and "Skype-recording" 
> pictures that
> the headset microphone is working: the volume meter contains a blue bar,
> so at least pavucontrol is getting data from the microphone. In the
> "script-recording" image the volume meter is all-gray, so either in 
> that
> case there's no audio coming from the microphone, or the screenshot is
> just taken when the signal happens to be zero.
> 
> I don't have much else to say. Things seem to mostly work. Watch that
> volume meter: if it stays all-gray, you can immediately see that there's
> no signal. Play with the headset microphone volume: it should affect the
> length of the blue bar (i.e. signal loudness).
> 
> -- 
> Tanu
>