can't record with microphone

Thanks for your bug. What version of gnome-media/ubuntu do you use? Does it work
with another src configured?

(In reply to comment #1)
> Thanks for your bug. What version of gnome-media/ubuntu do you use? Does it work
> with another src configured?

Using Breezy's gnome-media 2.12.O-0ubuntu.
I can record with my webcam plugged in using hw:1.

The issue is fixed for your, or you had to specify hw:1 to get it working? Or
did you use the soundcard selector?

Did you try different setting and enabling different channels in
'gnome-volume-control'?

(In reply to comment #3)
> The issue is fixed for your, or you had to specify hw:1 to get it working? Or
> did you use the soundcard selector?

This issue is not fixed, I can only record from hw:1 which is my webcam, crappy
sound quality.

hw:0, my soundcard gives hardware feedback (speak into the mic, hear with
speakers/headphone) but gnome sound reccorder does not record anything from it
nor does gstreamer-properties echo anything when 'alsasrc device="hw:0"' is
specified.
Testing the mic with plain Alsa setup in gstreamer-properties errs : "Failed to
construct test pipeline for 'ALSA - Advanced Linux Sound Architecture'". ESD or
OSS don't echo anything either.

I tested all the possible combinations of input on/off in gnome-volume-control,
to no avail.

Tested with live-cd.
* Almost exact same behaviour: microphone gives feedback when unmuted in gnome
volume center, but test in gstreamer-properties doesn't echo.
* Slight difference: recording test does not give error when testing plain Alsa
but locks in testing (can't stop the test, only way out is to kill
gstreamer-properties).
* Using hw:0 gives no echo and hw:1 works but it's the webcam, not the soundcard
microphone.
* gnome sound recorder records silence with plain Alsa or hw:0 selected.

I'm getting the same thing on a SB Live 5.1.

I had the same and I resolved it that way :
in the volume control panel :
Edition > preferences tic the "recorder" case
close, you've got, added to the "capture" tab, the "recorder" control panel.
Allow recordering through allowing "microphone" AND the new "recordering" without forget to rise the "recordering" bouton to the max.

Hoping to help ...

corentin barbu

Does that fix the problem?

No reply, bug closed. Feel free to reopen if you still get the issue

je ne peux pas enregistrer a partir du microphone. Par contre toutes les autres fonctionnalités reliées au microphone fonctionnent très bien

I get the same result as described by other writers. My microphone is recorded quite well and reproduced with a Windows operating system, but not with Ubuntu 9.04. So there is no problem with the hardware.
If I try to record a sound with the sound recorder application, nothing happens, and yet the sound is getting through, since the speakers reproduce a tapping sound made on the microphone.
My sound card is Creative's VIBRA 128 card. I wonder if a special driver is needed for this card.