[OpenIndiana-discuss] Microphone and pulseaudio

[Tony Brian Albers]

On 01/12/21 04:34 PM, Gary Mills wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 03:10:03PM +0000, Tony Brian Albers wrote:
>> I'm having issues getting an analogue (using a 3,5mm jack connector)
>> microphone to work properly.
> 
> I've never tried a microphone so I'm of no help there.  Audio devices
> usually have two inputs (line and microphone) and one output (line).
> I wonder if it's listening on the wrong input?
> 
>> It shows up in the mate-volume-control window, but even when it's at
>> 100% volume, there's no sound level indication. The mic works, because
>> when I test it with
>> $ cat </dev/audio >>/tmp/foo.au
>> $ cat /tmp/foo.au >>/dev/audio
> 
> Pulseaudio is not involved here, since you are accessing raw devices.
> You could use the audioplay command to replace the second command.
> I'd expect the same result, but it's worth trying.
> 
> The volume on illumos-based systems is always quite low.

Hmm.. I get the exact same results with audiorecord -v 100 and 
audioplay. I'm going to try with another mic(headphones actually because 
I have only the one mic)

/tony


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