Webcam - sound

[Basil Chupin]

On 12/03/12 20:40, Neil Winchurst wrote:
> On 12/03/12 04:55, Basil Chupin wrote:
>> It would be nice to know that after asking a question here and getting
>> responses whether the help you were given solved your problem. Getting a
>> feedback as to success or otherwise makes it worthwhile providing help
>> to others.
>>
>> BC
>>
> You are quite right and I apologise. Yes I did get it sorted. In the end
> I found a video on the internet which showed how to sort it with pulse
> audio.
>
> http://www.matthartley.com/audio-problems-with-skype-for-ubuntu/
>
> I followed the suggestions on the video and it worked. I now have sound
> with my webcam. Please note that this refers to pulse audio only.
>
> By the way, I also have a laptop running Mint 9 Xfce. I tried the webcam
> on that and it just worked. Then I found that the laptop was using Alsa
> and not pulse audio!! So it seems that if you are using alsa for sound
> there should not be any problems.
>
> Thanks for the nudge about feedback. I will remember in future,
>
> Neil

Thanks for this.

But the only hassle with the last para re Mint n the laptop: as I 
already mentioned in my earlier suggestions to you re getting the mic 
working is that pulse sits *ON* *TOP* of alsa - without alsa there is no 
pulseaudio. Once you get alsa working then you can use pulseaudio and 
its pavucontrol to control the audio.

BC

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