Re: [Dorset] USB Mic works in Skype but not in anything else!

2014-11-25 Thread Peter Merchant
On 24/11/14 19:34, Terry Coles wrote: I will be keeping an eye on these tools, but I think the developers have a way to go before Toc is ready for prime time. To be fair, the commits on Github for Toxcore don't start until June last year, so I would image some of the GUI components are really

Re: [Dorset] USB Mic works in Skype but not in anything else!

2014-11-24 Thread Terry Coles
On Monday 24 Nov 2014 07:43:40 Peter Merchant wrote: I discovered arecord -d 10 test-mic.wav and aplay test-mic.wav to test out my microphones. That works! See my other post. The problem could be QT. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth,

Re: [Dorset] USB Mic works in Skype but not in anything else!

2014-11-24 Thread Terry Coles
On Monday 24 Nov 2014 16:52:05 Terry Coles wrote: I had been there and seen that, but it still doesn't record with QARecord (but it does with arecord (see my response to Peter). I'm not familiar with Tox, but a quick search to find out if it used pulseaudio lead me to

Re: [Dorset] USB Mic works in Skype but not in anything else!

2014-11-23 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday 23 Nov 2014 12:18:26 Peter Merchant wrote: On 23/11/14 09:30, Terry Coles wrote: Since Skype stopped working ...I'm assuming that Skype for Linux has built in support for USB Mics. Hi Terry, I am not so sure about that. I have a trust USB webcam with Microphone, and even though I

Re: [Dorset] USB Mic works in Skype but not in anything else!

2014-11-23 Thread John Carlyle-Clarke
Hi Terry. On 23 November 2014 at 13:38, Terry Coles d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk wrote: The Tox suite of IM Clients would seem ideal, given my bandwidth issue with the latest version of Skype, but at the moment I can only use a poor quality boom Mic, when I have a perfectly good USB Mic. Your

Re: [Dorset] USB Mic works in Skype but not in anything else!

2014-11-23 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday 23 Nov 2014 15:00:47 John Carlyle-Clarke wrote: Your system probably uses pulseaudio, so you might be better with the pavucontrol program since that's the mixer that comes with Pulseaudio. That took me a bit further forward; in the 'Input Devices' tab of the pavucontrol program, I

Re: [Dorset] USB Mic works in Skype but not in anything else!

2014-11-23 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, I still can't get the audio to another piece of software on the computer, other than Skype. Don't know if https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1325282 is relevant and any help. Google just shows me lots of people having trouble getting the microphone to work

Re: [Dorset] USB Mic works in Skype but not in anything else!

2014-11-23 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday 23 Nov 2014 17:10:59 Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Terry, I still can't get the audio to another piece of software on the computer, other than Skype. Don't know if https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1325282 is The symptoms seem the same superficially, but

Re: [Dorset] USB Mic works in Skype but not in anything else!

2014-11-23 Thread Peter Merchant
On 23/11/14 20:29, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote: Hi Terry. If an application is using pulseaudio and is using an input device like a microphone, it will appear in the Recording tab of pavucontrol. In there, you should be able to change which input device it uses. Try making a Skype Test Call while