For W3C teleconferences I have for some time relied on two phones that have insufficient battery power after years of using them and are awkward to use as they don’t come with a headset. I bought a headset recently and created a Skype account today: annevankesteren.nl. However, sound recording was not working on Ubuntu. This is what you need to do:
(At least, I hope I recalled all that correctly. There’s no way to set everything back to the default settings.)
It should not be this hard.
No Pinky, this year Linux will do what it does every year; take over the desktop!
Hah, 2 EUR for a couple of hours dialing to a landline in the USA. I should’ve done this ages ago as Chaals (among others) has suggested.
Now if you could convince the other party to also use skype, it would cost you about 0 euro's (10-ish dollars, I presume) ;)
And yes, skype on linux is great. The interface is actually better than the windows one.
Extremely excited for final Hardy release.
"It should not be this hard."
See: Linus Torvalds take on Gnome
Blame Gnome. You wouldn't have so many issues like that with KDE 3.x. Kubuntu has its issues too... I think by Gnome 2.24, and Ubuntu 8.10, we'll have something solid and ready for retail.
Cheers,
Dan
Next figure out how to record the Skype conversation.
I only just managed to figure out how to record a wav.
Windows is just as complicated.
Yes, somebody should have a look at this and simplify it.
Of course, by now, changing it might break a bunch of stuff... So? Go ahead! Break! Break, already.
So, here I am with Ubuntu 9.04 installed, trying to get FlashPlayer 10 to find my laptop's built-in microphone so I can use it on www.vyew.com. Anne's instructions above don't help -- there's no "volume control panel" but there is a volume control button when I click on the speaker icon in the top panel. Following the volume control button, I get a dialog that doesn't have the checkboxes Anne refers to, nor the same tab names.
I wholeheartedly agree that "it should not be this hard." Why can't the Linux community, or maybe just Ubuntu developers, agree on some basic functionality and stick to it across various flavors and updates of Ubuntu?
A MicroSoft monopoly may not have pleased the open source community, but one thing you can say for it is that generally it maintained some uniformity of the user interface for long periods of time. I can't keep up with the boiling caldron of Linux's multiple ways to do the basic things, such as sound. I started using Linux back at kernel 0.9, and it just never has settled down to a stable environment, which I regret because I'd really like to use Linux as my primary OS.
Does anyone know how to get the FlashPlayer 10's "Linux Microphone" device connected with an appropriate Linux driver in my Ubuntu 9.04 installation?
So, here I am with Ubuntu 9.04 installed, trying to get FlashPlayer 10 to find my laptop's built-in microphone so I can use it on www.vyew.com. Anne's instructions above don't help -- there's no "volume control panel" but there is a volume control button when I click on the speaker icon in the top panel. Following the volume control button, I get a dialog that doesn't have the checkboxes Anne refers to, nor the same tab names.
Actually, that's precisely the volume control panel you want. Once you open that, there's a button marked "Preferences", which brings up the above-mentioned check-boxes (I'm also running Jaunty).
Where is this in 9.10 Karmic Koala