Bug#785108: gnome-sound-recorder: "your audio capture settings are invalid"

[Michael Biebl]

Control: tags -1 moreinfo unreproducible
Control: severity -1 important

On Tue, 12 May 2015 13:48:05 +0100 jmullee <jmullee at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Package: gnome-sound-recorder
> Version: 3.14.0.1-1
> Severity: grave
> Tags: upstream
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> "your audio capture settings are invalid"
> 
> No options available to change audio settings.
> 
> 
> line 75:
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-sound-recorder/tree/src/record.js
> 
>         this.srcElement = Gst.ElementFactory.make("pulsesrc", "srcElement");
>         if(this.srcElement == null) {
>           this._showErrorDialog(_("Your audio capture settings are invalid."));
> 
> I remember Windows 3.1 back in 1990 had a working sound recorder.
> It could even replay backwards.
> A quarter century later, this is the cutting edge: completely useless.

Works fine here.

Have you disabled pulseaudio?
If you open the Audio/Sound panel in gnome-control-center, is there a
device defined as Input in the "Input" tab?



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