That's exactly what is happening on my system

On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 10:11 PM, Ted Felix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Sound Recorder appears to work fine in 8.04.1, but not in 8.10 beta.
> Here are the details:
>
> *** Sound Preferences dialog (System | Preferences | Sound)
> Settings:
>
> Sound Events, Sound Playback: Autodetect.
> Music and Movies, Sound Playback: Autodetect.
> Audio Conferencing
>  Sound playback: Autodetect.
>  Sound capture: ALSA
> Default Mixer Tracks, Device: Intel 82801DB-ICH4 (Alsa mixer)
>
> The above settings are the same for me for 8.04.1 and 8.10 beta.
>
> 8.04.1: All the Sound Preferences dialog "Test" buttons work fine, but the
> "Sound capture" "Test" button launches a "Testing Pipeline" dialog that does
> nothing and dismisses immediately with "OK".
> 8.10 beta: The "Sound capture" "Test" button launches the "Testing
> Pipeline" "Testing" dialog which hangs for quite some time when you hit OK.
>  "top" indicates "gnome-sound-pro" is using 90% CPU during this time.
>
> *** Volume Control (Mixer)
> Double-clicking on the speaker icon in the upper right corner of the screen
> gives me the "Volume Control: Intel 82801DB-ICH4 (Alsa mixer)" window.
>
> 8.04.1: Mic working. I can turn up the microphone level here and hear
> myself in the headphones.
> 8.10 Beta: Mic working. I can turn up the microphone level here and hear
> myself in the headphones.
>
> Going into the Volume Control preferences (8.04.1: Edit | Preferences;
> 8.10 beta: Preferences button) allows me to check "Capture" in the list
> which then gives me a "Recording" tab in the volume control dialog and a
> capture control.
>
> 8.04.1: The capture control lets me adjust the recording level from low to
> high and there is a capture mute button to turn off recording.
> 8.10 beta: The capture microphone icon indicates mute.  Not sure if this
> was by default.  I've unmuted this and turned it all the way up.
>
> *** Sound Recorder
> 8.04.1: Sound Recorder plays back the four formats fine.
> 8.10 beta: Sound Recorder plays back the four formats fine.
>
> 8.04.1: With Sound Recorder I was able to record a small 2-3 second sound
> file in each of the four possible formats.
> 8.10 beta: When recording with Sound Recorder, the time goes by far too
> quickly in the "Length:" field.  E.g. when recording an .oga format file for
> 10 seconds, the Length shoots up to "35 minutes and 44 seconds".  The speed
> at which it shoots depends on the format.  It appears to be writing out a
> fixed number of silent bytes per second.  Once you press stop, Sound
> Recorder hangs for a while with "top" showing 90% cpu for gnome-sound-rec.
>  Playing back the resulting recording yields silence for the unusually long
> duration of the recording.
>
> --
> sound recorder: false recording duration
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/279572
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>
> Status in "gnome-media" source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> OS: Ubuntu 8.10
> I record in the default Sound recorder just for some seconds, but the
> length is shown to be several minutes. Furthermore, I can record normally
> with Audacity, while I cannot hear playback in sound recorder.
>

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