Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] quiet audio

[Meredydd <m_luff wincoll ac uk>]

Hmm - for some reason I seem to only have version 0.5.10, but I did see a 
"MIC Boost" setting. How do you change it with the older version?

Thanks a lot,
Meredydd

On Thursday 25 April 2002 07:02, Arthur Kahlich wrote:
> Since you now have alsa, you should have also gotten
> alsa-utils-0.9.0beta12, which will include a utility called amixer
> (this is a command line program).  If you have only one audio
> card, enter:
>
> amixer contents
>
> to get a listing of controls available on your card and their current
> settings.   The one you are looking for is something like this on my
> system:
>
> numid=13,iface=MIXER,name='Mic Boost (+20dB)'
>   ; type=BOOLEAN,access=rw---,values=1
>
>   : values=off
>
> I then enter:
>
> amixer cset numid=13 on
>
> to turn on the mic boost.  gmix doesn't have any control for this,
> but on certain sound card, microphone and people combinations
> it is essential in order to get any decent sound level.
>
> If you knew all of this before hand, then perhaps this is a useful
> tutorial for someone else.  I haven't found it anywhere else in
> the mailing list, so I thought I would write up at least a sound
> card specific example myself.  In another life I did audio code
> in MS Windows for a now defunct internet telephony company.
> Making our client application capable of controlling Mic Boost in
> that evironment was a mess because it was sound card driver
> specific and many manufacturers did it differently, but having the
> capability was absolutely necessary for good quality voice in
> many cases.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Art
>
> On Apr 24,02 01:42:47 PM Meredydd wrote:
> > Already did, and no it doesn't. We have common codecs, we opened both
> > send and receive channels, but I suspect it's his audio driver now,
> > looking at my bandwidth meter. I'll ask again...
> >
> > Meredydd
> >
> > On Wednesday 24 April 2002 22:12, Damien Sandras wrote:
> > > http://www.gnomemeeting.org/faq.php#AEN272
> > >
> > > Read this part of the FAQ and ask again if it doesn't fix your problem
> > >
> > > :)
> > >
> > > On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 22:06, Meredydd wrote:
> > > > OK, I went away, got ALSA (and the assistance of someone else using
> > > > Gnomemeeting). I now have very quiet audio when talking to him. I can
> > > > do normal recording and playback at a decent volume, but with
> > > > Gnomemeeting I come out ridiculously quiet. Gnomemeeting, OSS mixers,
> > > > and alsamixer all agree that the mike volume is set to full, and as I
> > > > say,
> > > > recording/playback works fine.
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas, anyone?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Meredydd
>
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