On 10/09/15 01:26, Ruben Safir wrote:

On 09/09/2015 11:20 AM, auxsvr wrote:

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On Monday 07 of September 2015 22:12:28 Istvan Gabor wrote:

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Hello:

I would like to record sound from a stream. I use pulseaudio's pacat with pavucontrol. When I change to recording tab in pavucontrol it shows the volume meter and the source I record from: pacat: pacat from Monitor of Internal Audio Analog Stereo. Sound recording works but I can't change the output volume for recording. Even if I move the slider to the left or right in the recording tab the volume is not changed, the volume meter shows the same amplitudes. How can I change the output volume for recording? One can change it using alsamixer: select the soundcard, set the volume on capture, line in and microphone in.

that might be less than idea because your bypassing the pulse audio server and your not using and occupying a device with a single application.

Pulseaudio sits ON TOP of alsa. You use alsamixer to control alsa and use pavucontol for pulseaudio (pavucontrol is not automatically installed when you install openSUSE-anything - don't know why but that's the way the devs work. However, if you want to use alsamixer you first must DISABLE pulseaudio (I used to simply uninstall pulseaudio but now use YaST>Sound>Other>(?)Disable Pulseaudio). Once puseaudio is disabled/uninstalled then running alsamixer will give you ALL the available channels you have on your sound card or chipset: press F6 to select your card/ship then F5 to see all the channels; then unmute/mute the channels you want and adjust their volume. Because I do not a sound freak and use input this and input that and produce multiple soundtrack musicals, just using alsa is enough for me :-) . But as far as I am concerned, get alsa set up first and then stuff around with pulseaudio/pavucontrol - although I have to add that my most recent experience with pulseaudio/pavucontrol left me in a total state of angst because whereas previously pavucontrol would show the available options for my sound card (eg, 5-1 channels, 7-1 channels, stereo, etc etc) now it doesn't even recognise that I have ANY sound device at all :-) . Because I use openSUSE 13.2 but play around with tumbleweed the problem I just mentioned must have occurred in one of the "daily" releases of TW (13.2 is fine) - but I have not a clue which one. BC -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org