'Twas brillig, and Sean McNamara at 05/09/10 16:18 did gyre and gimble: > Hi, > > On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 2:33 AM, John Owen-Jones <ajowenjones at gmail.com> wrote: >> let me give you my situation, >> I have an aspire one netbook and the internal mic is stereo but the 2 >> channels are combined 180 degrees out of phase so if left and right channels >> are set to similar levels there is no sound recorded. >> >> The solution is to open pulse audio volume control and set one channel to >> zero and the other to an appropriate level. >> >> A well behaved program such as skype has the option to adjust audio settings >> automatically or not. (naturally not is appropriate) >> google voice and video plugin doesn't have this option and sets both audio >> input channels to the same level resulting in silence. >> As a consequence the input settings for skype have also been lost. >> >> It seems wrong that 2 user level programs should be interacting like this , >> it appears that the audio input settings are set for the system not for the >> application or the user. >> >> There are a number of possible ways to tackle this problem >> rewrite applications to play nice but one rogue application wrecks that >> plan. >> allow input settings to be set per application - better but perhaps over >> engineered/ > > Per-app volume control is a feature that has been supported in > pulseaudio for a while now. It's not over-engineered; it's a very > useful feature! See the replies that have already been sent on this (duplicate) thread. Per-app volume control only works for *playback*, not recording. We need to make it work for both now that flat-volumes are used. Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
