The tag is for questions about the recording and playback of speech and music on your computer, but also for problems about the sound component of videos.
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Audio over DVI-cable?
I know that DVI as an interface does not support audio or HDCP. But how about DVI as a cable?
Since HDMI to DVI adapters and DVI to HDMI adapters are passive and the wiring is pretty straight ...
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Disable volume-change sound
I'm using Debian Wheezy with Gnome 3 and I'd like to disable the "bip" sound made when pressing the volume +/- keys. Audio programs that are running currently (I have no clue which program exactly ...
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Need sound card for gaming, not PC
I recently bought a Turtle Beach PX21 headset and also a GTX 650 TI. Do I still need to get a separate sound card for better gaming sound and performance or is there a sound card component in the GTX ...
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Rip Audio from DVD and add to a slideshow for YouTube [closed]
My sister seems to time her phone calls with some requests for technical support. The below is what she just asked:
I have an 18 min DVD of a choir concert - what I want to do is to
extract ...
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What lossy audio formats are more (or less) “efficient”? [closed]
This question is related to the answers I got to this question.
The bitrate-efficient format (see the question's most voted answers and their comments thereunder) would be one that assures a good ...
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Control game audio and chat audio separately with keyboard shortcuts
I have Logitech G510 Keyboard with all of these extra "G-Buttons" on the side, is there a way I can put these buttons to use by controlling game/chat volume separately when pressing the buttons?
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Sony Vegas - Fill empty spaces with one event
I have recorded voice clips, which have a little microphone noise in the background.
In between these clips there are empty spaces and if you listen to this, you always hear the difference, when the ...
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How to enable, disable, and switch between internal and external microphones in Windows 7?
Im Windows 7, I use a Headset microphone to dictate to the computer. I was not sure at one point if the internal microphone was disabled or not and thought that maybe it was used instead of the ...
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Windows 7 use remote PC as speakers?
Is it possible to "export" all sounds from one PC to another so it would act as a remote speaker?
I have a media PC connected to my TV and surround system. I'd like to be able to play games, watch ...
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PC crashes after moving
When plugging/unplugging something from the audio section of the MoBo, the PC freezes, without even the BSOD. Any idea of the reason?
I got Windows 8, and here's the complete report of my hardware ...
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How to restrict volume output in Windows 7?
I have my computer hooked to a stereo which doesn't like too much volume. I like the ability to control the volume from the Windows volume control rather than the stereo, but there's a point at about ...
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Sound goes through speakers eventhough headphone is plugged in on HP notebook
I have a HP Pavilion dv4-1101tu notebook. Currently it is running on Windows 7. All devices are installed correctly with their driver softwares.
When I make a call over Skype with my headphone ...
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copied video file to memory stick makes sound go strange
I am trying to copy an avi file from my laptop to a memory stick (formatted with FAT32). The memory stick has 16GB & the file I am trying to copy is only 2.5GB.
The avi file is a homevideo which ...
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How can I get the sound back my computer?
My sound was working perfectly, until I wiped my computer to factory conditions the other day. Now, the audio symbol on the bottom right of my screen has a red cross next to it.
My computer is an ...
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How to use ffmpeg to downmix 5.1 DTS HD MA or Dolby TrueHD to stereo AAC with Dolby Pro Logic II?
I'm creating audio tracks from movies that can be played on Apple TV and iOS devices. Handbrake could downmix 5.1 audio to stereo with Pro Logic II matrix encoding. How can I do that with ffmpeg?
I ...
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Headset Buzzing when laptop power plugged in
I have a Thinkpad Edge E535 Laptop and a Logitech G35 headet. When I use the microphone to record stuff there is a small humming/buzzing sound in the background when the laptop is plugged in to AC. ...
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Can I use a laptop microphone and webcam for an application on a desktop?
I game on a desktop computer and I have a few spare laptops. I use one next to my gaming desktop to manage Skype, etc., but I want to use the microphone and perhaps the webcam in game.
Is there any ...
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Add sound to keystrokes in iTerm2 / zsh
I've been searching for quite a while now, but haven't found anything. I want to spice my terminal up a bit more than just colorizing it – I also want to add specific sounds to keystrokes, newlines ...
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How to connect two bluetooth headphones with each other with the help of a Linux desktop?
I want to be able to talk from one headset with the other headset on bluetooth. They can not connect directly (AFAIK).
I thought that maybe if I connect both to my Linux desktop, there should be a ...
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Play music on Hi-Fi via Airplay from Kubuntu
I would like to use the Airplay functionality of my Hi-Fi System from my Linux Kubuntu. I was able to make the Hi-Fi play songs using Bubble UPNP from an Android tablet.
How can I use a music player ...
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PC Nvidia HDMI Settings
So I have a GeForce 9500 GT and I have the latest Nvidia drivers. I have 2 ports, both DVI. One is connected to a normal monitor, the other is connected to my TV. That one I used a really long ...
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Prevent applications to control master volume on Linux
Whenever I change the volume in VLC, Rhythmbox, or a video on YouTube, it change the master volume, i.e. the system volume. How can I prevent this from happening?
I'm running Debian 7.0.0 (wheezy) ...
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Bash script to extract audio from video
I have written this little script to batch extract audio from video using avconv. It was working fine, but strangely it doesn't work anymore (since I have changed the codec from aac to mp3).
The ...
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Does it make sense converting a file to a higher audio bitrate?
When a certain file (mp4, flv, etc) has a 95 kbps audio bitrate - does it make sense outputing to a higher bitrate when converting to mp3 or other format (be it lossy or not)?
Would this result in ...
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Random two-tone notification
Three days ago I started getting this random two-tone notification on my PC. I have scanned for malware several times, and restored the computer to a point several weeks ago, and it has not desisted.
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Is there a program that visualize the volume of an audio file by time?
I have some recorded audio files of several nights of sleeping. I need to find out when there is snore sound. It will be much easy to visualize the audio by volume/time. Is there such a software?
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Inaudible dialogue in video files
When playing some movies in my computer the voices are really, really low - I have to boost the volume to the maximum in order to be able to hear anything. This causes some sound effects to be really, ...
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surround system + hard drive being too close = death
I bought a sound system of ~1000 watts for my HTPC and I was wondering:
how close should my computer and/or hard drives be from it in order to prevent sound and/or magnetic damage?
Thanks
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How can I isolate HDMI sounds to a TV while game sounds to system speaker in Win7?
I have a desktop PC which I use to play games on AND watch films.
Its a Win 7 OS... with an ASUS EAH6450 hd gfx card with HDMI, DVI outputs.
Is there a way for me to be able to play a game on the ...
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mix audio with h264 mp4 video with ffmpeg
I have 2 files :
Input #0, wav, from '105426_1.wav':
Duration: 00:00:09.98, bitrate: 1312 kb/s
Stream #0:0: Audio: pcm_s16le ([1][0][0][0] / 0x0001), 41000 Hz, stereo, s16, 1312 kb/s
and:
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Sound not playing in DOSbox in Mac OS X Lion, but I can record the sound correctly
I'm attempting to use dosbox to play some older games (eg sim city 2000, warcraft 2). However, I cannot figure out how to get sound working. Everything works okay, but there is never any sound being ...
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Split Wave audio file by Java [closed]
I have a bunch human reading simple sentence (hello world) as a wav file, How can I break the wav file for 2 wav files each contains word (hello and world) by automatically recognizing the gap between ...
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which voice driver did you use for HP z400 on the attached link? [closed]
HP Z400 front panel audio not working
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How are audio channels combined? [closed]
I am looking to know after we record audio from two microphone how we combine these two audios to one file and how the system separate them?
I need to know the algorithm or something like that.
As I ...
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cut the first and last half-second of audio files (using only ffmpeg)
I need to cut the first and the last half-second of some audio files.
I need to use ffmpeg (because I know that it works well and I know the command for the right encoding and I have installed it on ...
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No video is written in for some part of video as the segmentation from FFmpeg
I am segmenting a 20 minutes long video to hundreds of small clips . The command is like
ffmpeg\\ffmpeg -i nx_1.avi -ss 399.37 -t 1 ka1_2.avi
The ffmpeg is in a subfolder.
It works very well for ...
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Laptop Failing to Record System Audio
I have been recording videos for a while now using my Lenovo T430 Laptop (Windows 7 64-bit) with no errors; but now I cannot record audio. I usually used Camtasia Studio 8 to record my videos due to ...
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Concat videos with ffmpeg does not work
I'm currently trying to concat 3 Videos which don't have a audio stream and adding a audio file in the same step.
I created this command which should do the work:
ffmpeg -y -r 30 -i data\intro.mp4 ...
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FL Studio and Traktor Audio 10 messing up my sound settings and other issues
I purchased FL Studio and the Traktor Audio 10 device interface which included Traktor Scratch Pro 10.
When I have my Traktor Audio 10 (TA10) hooked up to my computer my ASIO4All settings get messed ...
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No sound with particular video (WMV) file(s)
I've encountered an issue and can't seem to find a solution. I get no sound when I play a video, I've tried a lot of stuff, nothing yields a working file.
Codec packs, KLite Mega, CCCP
Tried ...
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Foobar - How to exclude non-music files?
I drop my "Music" folder to foobar2000, all songs are included in the playlist, but also the other files (like album-art.jpg) are also included. When I'm shuffling, those files appear on the list and ...
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Automatically drop down volume when earphones plugged in?
In my old Dell laptop, running Windows 7, whenever I would plug an earphone in, the volume automatically drops down to what I have set in the past when the earphones were plugged in. The volume again ...
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Looking for a music organizer, with possible cloud features [closed]
I am looking for a music organisation app for a mac with quite specific requirements. I have resorted to a forum after a fair time googling and trying out several apps.
My friend, who is a music ...
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How to trim a group of mp3 files with a specific timings
I am having trouble finding the way to trim bunch of mp3 files. The time from the beginning and time from the end is fixed across all the files and should be specified by the user.
I already tried ...
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What can cause sound inside computer aside from fan?
There is a slight whirring sound from inside my laptop. However I realized that even if I unplugged the fan, the sound would still exist. I also have a ssd. Is there any non moving part that could ...
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How to share live audio output from PC-1 to PC-2 over local area network?
I have PC-1 and PC-2 quite a distance away from each other, Both are running Windows XP.
I want to be able to watch videos through PC-1 and hear audio from PC-1 and PC-2 at the same time without any ...
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How do I create a mixed mode CD/DVD or ISO from bin/cue files and data files?
I have a bin file and a cue file for audio, and some data files. I would like to burn a mixed mode CD for this, preferably with a free utility. However, most of the stuff I have read online refers ...
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Ripping DVD's for iTunes and 5.1 sound
I have spent the past few days trying to find a solution here. I want all my DVD's on my pc so as my DVD's can stay new and scratch free. I started out with the trial of DVDfab. Things seemed to be ...
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Youtube music is high fidelity? [closed]
I have downloaded two song videos from youtube. I have to join them and make ready for use on stage show of my daughter school program. How do i know that the song would play well. It has to be louder ...
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Boring cd-search sound! How can I turn it off?
How can I turn off that annoying mechanical sound that kinda means it is looking for a cd. I don't know what I did install but from that point my laptop always looks for a cd inside him even when ...
