More microphone grief

[Tyler Aviss]

Hmmm.
I've had certain issues with various USB devices when they don't like
either the bitrate or the # of channels that the calling program is
using.
Have you tried something other than 8000Hz and/or perhaps using 2
Channels/stereo?

I usually test with Audacity for this type of thing.

- TJA

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Evan Leibovitch <evan at telly.org> wrote:
> I thought that USB webcams and microphones would be easier to set up
> under Linux than the ones attached to sound cards.
> One attempt last week went very smoothly. This time, not so much.
>
> When I configure Skype to use it the test call fails with "problem with
> Audio Capture". And when I try to use `arecord`, I get this:
>
> $ arecord --list-devices
> **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
> card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: AD198x Analog [AD198x Analog]
>  Subdevices: 2/2
>  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>  Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
> card 1: NX6000 [Microsoft� LifeCam NX-6000], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
>  Subdevices: 1/1
>  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
>
> $ arecord -D hw:1,0 -d 10 test.wav
> Recording WAVE 'test.wav' : Unsigned 8 bit, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono
> arecord: set_params:932: Broken configuration for this PCM: no
> configurations available
>
> Ironically the camera component of this webcam works wonderfully, I just
> can't get any audio out of the mike.
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks!
>
> - Evan
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