Re: Not sure if this is the right spot, but... PulseAudio backend?

[Stephen <poisonthemon gmail com>]

Cool, thanks :) I'm a KDE user, so it didn't really click that I might
have to use the GNOME utils to change it. On that note, though, I'm
still going to have a tinker with the code to see what I can do :P

--Stephen

On 03/26/2010 04:14 AM, daniel g. siegel wrote:
> hi stephen!
>
> we use gconfaudiosrc as default. that means, you are totally free to set
> your microphone in gstreamer-properties.
>
> daniel
>
> On Mi, 2010-03-24 at 18:32 +1100, Stephen wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've used cheese in the past to great effect, but I have recently
>> managed to blow up my desktop PC's motherboard. This has forced me onto
>> my laptop, which has a built in microphone. The problem, you ask? The
>> internal likes to make sure the only sound it hears is the cooling fan
>> spinning up.
>>
>> With the PulseAudio app, I can grab the levels off the webcam's
>> microphone, but no matter what Cheese insists on using my damn internal
>> :( Is it feasible to convert Cheese to use a PulseAudio backend for
>> recording? I'd be happy to make the modifications myself if someone was
>> willing to answer the many dumb questions I had while I was poking
>> around the code. Alternatively, is there some way I can go about making
>> the internal microphone 'invisible' (possibly with different kernel
>> options) to applications?
>>
>> --Stephen
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