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Re: [LUG] Logitech C310 - no sound

 

On Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:08:02 +0000
Neil Winchurst wrote:

> I have now acquired a webcam. I plug it in to the USB port and start
> guvcview. Fine, I get a good image. But, no sound. (Of course, I can
> play CD's and get sound from them as expected. No problem with YouTube
> either.)
> 
> According to my researches this webcam should 'just work'. Not much
> good without sound though. I am wondering if something is muted in
> kmix, but when I run that I get no window come up??
> 
> If anyone can point me in the right direction I would be grateful.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Neil

Hi Neil,

Does this webcam definitely have a mic? I haven't looked into the C310,
but I do know that a lot of lower-end webcams do not have any form of
sound-input.

Also, if you're running with PulseAudio as your sound system (with
Ubuntu and Debian systems, this is quite likely), then you may want to
look into running pavucontrol and make sure that the webcam's audio has
been detected and is available. I had to do something similar to this
in order to get my BlueTooth headset to work properly. It's a bit of a
PITA, but if everything has been setup to "just work", then PulseAudio
should be handling your audio... but you haven't told it what to do
with it yet.

Grant.

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