I was trying to use recordMyDesktopqt today. The video piece works just fine, but audio wasn’t as easy. I plugged in a usb mic. In the recordMyDesktop setting there is just a text box where one must type in the device name. I didn’t know what to put there. I tried a few things that failed, and then I had an idea. I opened up Audacity and went into the settings. It gave me a dropdown list and I found “ALSA: USB Device 0x46d:0×809: USB Audio (hw:1,0). Now, I’d already tried ’0x46d:0×809′ and that didn’t work. I’d also tried it with USB on the front. Then I tried ‘hw:1,0′ and that did the trick. Looking at the recordMyDesktop documentation would have gotten me there sooner, or maybe not as they imply kmix could fix it, but I don’t think so.
I don’t know what I’m doing or this probably wouldn’t have taken as long as it did — but the one place I’d love to see a concerted effort to make things easier with Linux is sound. A lot of times things just work – but when they don’t it can be really tough to figure out where to go and what to do.
Browsing Posts published on 9/24/2009
Canonical (the maintainers for Ubuntu Linux, based in South Africa) and IBM are planning on selling netbooks in Africa running their software. This looks to be an inexpensive option compared to full powered hardware with MS licensing on top.
