[Linux-users] audatcity

[Vu Pham]

On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 10:43 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> On 8/2/07, Vu Pham <vu at sivell.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 09:55 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > > On 8/2/07, Vu Pham <vu at sivell.com> wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 09:38 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > > > > Exactly how are you trying to capture sound?
> > > > >
> > > > > On 8/2/07, Vu Pham <vu at sivell.com> wrote:
> > > > > > This is my lost message when we had server problem.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I installed audatcity into my Fedora x86_64 box but I cannot capture any
> > > > > > sound. I tried all the listing devices that audacity shows, but none of
> > > > > > them work.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Is it because of my platform x96_64 or something else ?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I installed audacity by yum and it loaded all the related packages.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > >
> > > > I have an on-line class and I would like to record it.
> > > >
> > > > In a Windows PC, I log in the class, listen to the class and run
> > > > audacity at the same time. audacity then captures the sound and save to
> > > > files. I am able to save these files and listen to them again.
> > > >
> > > > In my office, there is no Windows, just Suse and Fedora. So I install
> > > > audacity and try to do the same thing. The installation went fine and
> > > > audacity starts without any error but it just cannot capture anything.
> > > > It still runs but the output file has no sound at all.
> > > >
> > > > Under Windows, audacity lists one sound input device.
> > > > Under Fedora, it lists several of them:
> > > > OSS: /dev/dsp
> > > > ALSA: HDA NVidia: ALC883 Analog (hw:0,0)
> > > > ALSA: HDA NVidia: ALC883 Analog (hw:0,2)
> > > > ALSA: front
> > > > ALSA: surround40
> > > > ALSA: surround51
> > > > ALSA: surround71
> > > >
> > > > I selected each of these devices but none of them works.
> > > >
> > > > The onlince class still works fine under Fedora, i.e. video, sound are
> > > > all ok.
> > >
> > > Do you have an audio capture device specified in alsamixer ?
> > >
> >
> > For capture device, alsamixer shows
> > Card: HDA NVidia
> > Chip: Realtek ALC888
> > View: Playback Capture All
> > Item: Capture [ db Gain=12.00,12.00]
> 
> Sorry, i have no clue then.  I've never tried to do this.  What format
> are you trying to save/capture in?  Note that the audacity that ships
> with Fedora has no MP3 support.
> 

Thanks for bearing with me, though :) . At least I know something new : 
alsamixer. Never used it before. audacity shows it can export sound in
WAV and MP3 format. On Windows, I tried those two and they are fine.


Vu