On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:55:13 +0200, Micha? Sawicz <michal at sawicz.net> wrote: > Dnia 2011-10-18, wto o godzinie 12:26 +0200, R?mi Denis-Courmont pisze: >> One regularly requested feature addition for VLC media player is the >> ability to record desktop audio in sync with screen capture. >> This is theoretically feasible with a PulseAudio sink monitor source. >> But but, I am a it puzzled as how to record the correct source. In >> this case, the default source is obviously inadequate, as it would >> typically be the microphone. In particular, what to do if there are >> more than one sink, and thus more than one monitor?? > > See http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/Modules and read about > module-null-sink and module-loopback. You can obviously only record from > one source (for screencasting - probably a monitor), but you can also > loop back any number of sources to the sink whose monitor you're > recording. That can be a null sink, too, so that you don't get feedback > through your speakers. Eh? The user doing the recording typically wants to hear the sound while recording. So I don't see what null sink has to do here. > Obviously that's not relevant to VLC itself, it's through pactl/pacmd > (sorry) and pavucontrol that you need to select the appropriate > recording source. So that's not an answer to the problem. -- R?mi Denis-Courmont http://www.remlab.net/
