webcam recording question

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muhammed
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Is there a webcam recording program that will allow me to select a USB microphone instead of my laptop microphone? Cheese does not seem to offer this option.

onpon4
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Use the sound settings to control this (under System Settings). Cheese just uses whatever the defaults are.

muhammed
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I can't find System Settings in Trisquel Mini ... do you know how I can change the sound settings with Mini?

Should I install the program xfce4-mixer, to access sound settings?

http://askubuntu.com/questions/80384/where-are-the-lxde-sound-preferences

Edit: by the way thanks for your quick and helpful reply onpon

onpon4
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Ah, I'm not as familiar with LXDE. Looking at a Trisquel Mini installation I have in a VM, I'm not sure where the setting is.

When you right-click the volume control applet, you get an option called "'Volume Control' Settings" and that opens a command-line program called "alsamixer". I'm guessing that's probably what you need to use. Not entirely sure, though.

muhammed
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Thanks again; I'll have a closer look at alsamixer soon

I'm thinking about recording the event as audio only this time; the webcam that I have is not that great so maybe an audio recording is better this time