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wigo

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From: Athens, Greece

Registered: 2013-04-16

Posts: 3

[SOLVED] No mic capture and weird flash after disabling midi daemon

Hello everyone, I'll jump to the topic:
This morning I installed timidity and the freepats soundfont for timidity. I enabled the timidity.service, listened to some midis and then realized that I didn't have sound playback for everything except the midis.
Having done what I wanted with timidity, I disabled the timidity daemon and rebooted, hoping that the audio playback would work as prior to enabling the said daemon. Playback did work indeed afterwards, but a whole new lot of relevant {?} problems emerged:
The microphone now doesn't work and, goodness me, youtube videos starting from 360p quality, they automatically escalate second by second to reach 1080p
I've tried purging {pacman -Rns} and reinstalling alsa-utils but the problems persist. I will continue tinkering with alsa's config, as capture has in many cases been tricky {I noticed the microphone doesn't work when I connected to a teamspeak channel, if that's of any use}. I post so early mainly due to the youtube problem, for which an online solution is nowhere to be found, possibly because of the multitude of youtube-related problems. I understand this might not be enough info, but I have no idea what else could be useful to you.

Edit: youtube videos don't have sound for the little that the videos play before switching to a higher resolution. Also, after reaching 1080p, the video stops and the usual error message of youtube appears. So, I suppose that this behavior is because flash can't find the playback device.

Last edited by wigo (2013-06-24 12:45:44)

wigo

Member

From: Athens, Greece

Registered: 2013-04-16

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] No mic capture and weird flash after disabling midi daemon

Update: ok, after once more reinstalling alsa-utils everything concerning playback works fine, including youtube videos, the strange behavior of whom is attributed to the utube flash player which couldn't find a playback device. Ok, yet the mic capture problem remains... I will keep digging.

wigo

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From: Athens, Greece

Registered: 2013-04-16

Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] No mic capture and weird flash after disabling midi daemon

So, since the rest of the problems were solved with another reinstall of alsamixer as mentioned above, it was easy at this point to track the source of the mic problem. After digging at the mic recording page of alsa: http://alsa.opensrc.org/Record_from_mic I found a clue about having to select the microphone device by pressing the spacebar (rear mic or front mic). It were that easy, and I would have figured it out, if I knew that I had to select one of the two mic devices. So, by switching to front mic, everything is now working. I just don't get why a midi daemon had to cause all this... anyways, thanks for your time reading this.