no audio with simplescreenrecorder

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On 2020-04-04 03:55, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 1:15 PM Hans Petter Selasky <hps at selasky.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 2020-04-03 19:29, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>>> I am attempting to capture screen video with
>>> multimedia/simplescreenrecorder and can't seem to record the audio. Video
>>> is fine, but the audio silent. I have tried oth Pulse and ALSA to find
>> only
>>> silence.
>>>
>>> My system is an old ThinkPad T520 with Conexant CX20590 HDA audio.
>>>
>>> I select "Record audio" and, for ALSA, OSS. For Pulse, I select
>> /dev/dsp0.
>>>
>>> Anyone have this working? Any clues appreciated!
>>
>> What is the output from mixer?
>>
>> Did you select the correct recording source?
>>
>> --HPS
> 
> 
> Bingo! Well, sort of. I had "mic" as my record device and changes it to the
> only other option, "monitor. Now I get sound, but I am getting both the
> audio from the web site and from the microphone. I set the mic gain to 0:0,
> but I still hear the sounds in the room. I'm just guessing that my audio
> device setup is wrong.
> 
> I have the following mixer setup:
>> mixer
> Mixer vol      is currently set to 100:100
> Mixer pcm      is currently set to 100:100
> Mixer speaker  is currently set to 100:100
> Mixer mic      is currently set to   0:0
> Mixer rec      is currently set to   1:1
> Mixer monitor  is currently set to  75:75
> Recording source: monitor
> 

Try something like:

mixer recsrc=mic

--HPS