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[Marco Calistri <marco.calistri@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jos van Kan ha scritto:
> Marco Calistri schreef:
>  it in kmixer. Maybe your webcam does the same.
> > >
> >
> > Hi Jos,
> >
> > It sounds very interesting.
> > Confess that I manipulated into Yast-->Sound  a bit, in order to see if
> > my webcam is behaving as a sound card, but I am far to find the correct
> > settings and how to be sure that it is really being seen as a separate
> > sound card by the system.
> >
> > How did you proceed to make work your webcam?
> > Which webcam model is it?
> > Which Linux Distro / kernel are you using with this webcam
> >
> > BTW in kmix I see USB Video Camera window separate settings and I am
> > able to select the available options and adjust the input gain.
>
> I have a Trust 6250X webcam and I'm still on 11.0 (kernel 
> 2.6.25.20-0.7-default)
> for reasons I won't go into right now. :-)
>
> To make the microphone work I plug in the camera and restart kmix (if kmix 
> -the
> speaker icon- is not in your system tray you just start it). Click on 
> kmix>mixer
> to bring up the big mixer panel. In the top right hand corner you will see a
> drop down arrow next to the make of your current sound card. Click on it and 
> you
> get a drop down menu with all soundcards present. Choose your webcam, unmute 
> the
> input, raise the volume to 80% and Bob is your proverbial uncle. For reasons
> unknown to me the volume is always reset to 0 when I unplug the camera.

I see exactly what you reports about kmix settings.
USB Video Camera is showed, along with its controls; but no chances to
see any sound through kmix level meter, nor to ear recorded audio
through krecord.

TOTAL FAILURE!

-- 
Marco Calistri <amdturion>
One thing they don't tell you about doing experimental physics is that
sometimes you must work under adverse conditions... like a state of
sheer terror.
        -- W.K. Hartmann

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