Bug#830205: gnome-sound-recorder: can't record anything, misleading error message

[Arturo Borrero Gonzalez]

Package: gnome-sound-recorder
Version: 3.20.2-1
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

Dear maintainers,

thanks for your work with this package :-)

I've played today with gnome-sound-recorder. I was trying to
record some sounds of my desktop PC, with no luck.

I use pulseaudio, and an application is producing sounds (and I can
see the vumeters in pulseaudio moving, and I'm hearing the sounds BTW).

Then I open gnome-sound-recorder with the intention of record the sound.

The first thing I see is that there is no way to change the input device of
gnome-sound-recorder. That seems bad.

Moreover, if I hit the 'record' button, an error window appears with the message:
 "Your audio capture settings are invalid."

I can guess that gnome-sound-recorder expects my mic to be plugged in and enabled
in pulseaudio.

So, this is more an upstream request:
 * please, let gnome-sound-recorder choose the input device/stream
 * please, be more explicit in error messages

thanks, best regards.

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