Bug 494059

Summary: recorded sound is defective
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: James Bridge <james>
Component: gnome-mediaAssignee: Bastien Nocera <bnocera>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description James Bridge 2009-04-03 21:58:06 UTC
Description of problem:
recorded sound (ogg file, from mic) has rapid alternation of sound and silence - the sound appears to be the actual recorded sound, but it is constantly interrupted. Sounds like machine gun fire!

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
F11 beta livecd

How reproducible:
very

Steps to Reproduce:
1. try to record!
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Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info: similar problem with F10, reported as bug 482932. However, in that case it only happened if the PA volume control was not open. Now it happens all the time.

FWIW, I don't see it as progress that you now have to use the terminal in order to select input from line input. How else do you get stereo input?

Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2009-04-29 10:46:32 UTC
Version of gnome-media? Did you test with 2.26.0?

Does the same problem happen when using arecord to record the audio?

Comment 2 James Bridge 2009-04-29 22:59:17 UTC
I just used the F11 live CD. That has gnome-sound-recorder 2.25.92.

Haven't tried yet with arecord. Will get back to you

Comment 3 James Bridge 2009-04-30 17:44:52 UTC
arecord works, as does sound-recorder when making a wav file. But using the live cd I haven't found any way of recording from line input. I can only record from the mike. I tried playing with alsamixer, but couldn't find anything relevant.

Comment 4 Bastien Nocera 2009-05-05 14:12:44 UTC
Does this work:
gst-launch-0.10 pulsesrc ! audio/x-raw-float,rate=44100,channels=2 ! vorbisenc name=enc quality=0.5 ! oggmux ! filesink location=foo.oga
And then play the "foo.oga" using ogg123?

Or this:
gst-launch-0.10 pulsesrc ! wavenc ! filesink location=foo.wav
And then playing foo.wav using paplay?

Is it the playback that's broken, or the recording itself?

Comment 5 James Bridge 2009-05-07 17:07:41 UTC
Both work, though only from the microphone. I can't find any way of enabling line input. System > Preferences > Sound and Applications > Sound & Video > PulseAudio Volume Control both simply refer to "Internal Audio". Alsamixer just has one control for input volume.

Comment 6 Bug Zapper 2009-06-09 13:14:08 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

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Comment 8 Bug Zapper 2010-06-28 11:41:15 UTC
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