Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Microphone input filter

2009-06-06 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Tue, 02.06.09 13:35, Toby Collett (tcollett+li...@plan9.net.nz) wrote: Now I am new to pulse audio so I could be misunderstanding how things are configured a lot. Is there anyone on the list that is able to provide some guidance about how I can apply a filter to an input stream, or

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Microphone input filter

2009-06-03 Thread Maarten Bosmans
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Toby Collett tcollett+li...@plan9.net.nz wrote: I am trying to use the internal microphone in my laptop to make VOIP calls (actually skype mostly). The quality of the sound is not good at all with large amounts of background noise when I have the levels up high

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Microphone input filter

2009-06-03 Thread Toby Collett
Hi Maarten, There seem to be three levels that affect the mic, the 'Front Mic Boost' which is 0,33,66 or 100%, the capture input level and a mysterious input labeled digital. I have played with many combinations of the levels and cannot find any where my voice is audible but has an acceptable

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Microphone input filter

2009-06-03 Thread Jud Craft
Your microphone should have the same capability under ALSA that it does under Windows. It's the same hardware, it's just a little harder to configure. While it's possible that it has special only make good sound under Windows drivers, you could still give Linux a shot. With my laptop mic, I

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Microphone input filter

2009-06-03 Thread Toby Collett
Unfortunately with all the playing I have done in the past with mixer levels (several hours at different times) I have been unable to get an acceptable quality. Hence I have been considering the brute force filter approach. Toby P.S. my main laptop is a toshiba dynabook RX1/T7E (portege r500),