Questions tagged [audio]
For questions about the recording and playback of speech and music on your computer, as well as for problems about the sound component of videos.
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Speech Removed from Speaker Playback when Playing Specific File
Really weird problem I cannot get my head around. So playing the below youtube video using the speaker on my Windows Phone (Lumia 1520) I can hear all background music but no speech. This occurs ...
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How to record what's playing on the soundcard using FFmpeg?
I am trying to record what's playing on my soundcard in Windows 8.1
I ran the following to determine what devices I have:
ffmpeg -list_devices true -f dshow -i dummy
The output listed:
DirectShow ...
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Is it possible to tell which files are being played by the sound driver - Windows 7?
There is some music or sound effect in certain website that I'm really interested to get a copy from for my own purposes.
My first attempt is to check out the html code, maybe I'm lucky and the audio ...
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Sound randomly turning down windows 7
What happends:
i am listening to music on a youtube playlist and at random points during many songs the sound goes down (not because its shoddy quality trying to avoid copyright its official vevo and ...
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Disable DTS audio enhancements permanently
I have an HP Spectre x360 with DTS audio. I'd like to permanently disable the "audio enhancements" in the DTS control panel. Even if I disable them by unchecking the box, the next time a plug my ...
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USB Headset test in KDE works but no sound from applications
My G35 appears in all the audio settings files. I can click the test buttons and hear sound. I can also right click on the kmix speaker icon, Select Master Channel and choose the headset. This gives ...
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What cable do I need to perform this connection
I want to output audio from my laptop to my TV. I output the video using VGA.
Here is the picture from my manual.
I need options 6. The one where there's a VGA cable and a sound cable.
I don't ...
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How do I find out the detailed format of an audio file?
I am interested in very detailed information like:
content-type (raw, ac3, etc)
layout (interleaved/non interleaved)
format (F32LE, F32BE, etc)
and other properties like those present in the list ...
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set mixer increment/decrement when using hotkeys
Running XFce4 under Debian/GNU linux i'm facing the following problem with my audio mixer:
When I change the volume using the hotkeys, the volume is changed in too big steps.
So I tried attaching a ...
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How can I play audio to people on a hangout
We have team-meetings via Google Hangouts regularly. In order to give it a theme-song or to set the mood, I would like to play an audio-file when all have gathered and the "official" part starts.
I ...
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AVI file: Audio getting GRADUALLY out of sync
I have an AVI video where audio is GRADUALLY out of sync.
In the beginning, audio is correctly in sync , but during the film, it gets more and more out of sync. After 90 minutes, the gap is around 3 ...
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How to record the output of audio card in 10 second chunks?
I want to record the output of my sound card. I understand that there are options (e.g. Stereo Mix with Audacity, Virtual Audio Cable, etc...).
However, I want to record it in 10 second chunks (or ...
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FFmpeg - Error while opening encoder for output stream #0:0
What's wrong about this command?
I want to convert a .avi format video to "video=h.264/.mp4, audio=.mp3" video.
ffmpeg -i "C:\video.avi" -c:v libx264 -preset slow -qp 0 -pass 2 -c:a mp3 -b:a 192k "C:\...
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How to disable high volume warning dialog?
In Windows 10, how do you disable the high volume hearing loss warning dialog when attempting to increase the volume above the level of 42?
I do not want to see this warning when plugging in my ...
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why is default audio volume always at 100%
It does not matter which website or which video player the website uses, whenever I open any webpage with a video the audio volume is always 100%. If i open a link with a video on yahoo or ESPN the ...
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Ubuntu 15.04/15.10 does not play any audio after 'amixer set Master toggle' two times
I used the 'amixer set master toggle' command to mute my music on the home server during a phone call. Afterwards I tried to use the same command to un-mute the mixers: Dind't work.
I tried to ...
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Is there a way to detect repeated audio segments in an audio file?
I have a long mp3 file. It contains four repeated segments (loops) and I want to detect and then extract them. I could use my ears along with some audio editing software, but is there a way to ...
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Bluetooth earpiece pairs, connects, but plays no sound.
My earpiece worked fine until BOOM, it didn't. (Suspicion: I had recently run "Driver Booster 2", but I seem to recall the earpiece working after that - at least for awhile...Correlation, Causation)?
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Surface 3 w Win10 -- audio stopped working, troubleshooter sees issue but does not fix
All audio playback.... is silent. Via built in speakers and via headphone jack.
No issues in the OS are visible. It thinks audio is there and happy.
MS has an audio troubleshooter that goes through ...
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What services are required for having audio in Windows 7?
My Windows 7 computer was very slow, so I decided to shut down most of the startup services (using msservice). After rebooting, I found out that I don't have audio. At the taskbar, there is a small ...
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VLC application does not play after I manage to skip to the desired file location
I am trying to skip to random places in a 1MB (10 minute) 3GPP phone call recording sound file on Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. In order to do this, I associate the .3gp file extension with VLC and ...
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VLC Play music from folder
I want my VLC to play all mp3s from E:\Music when I open it, but Im really confused with all those commands, I tried
vlc -LZ E:\Music
and it worked for the first time, but not when I closed VLC ...
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computer freezes and sound stutters
When I am playing any game on my PC, eventually it will freeze and the sound will stutter. Some small fraction of the time I can recover by mashing a bunch of keys like escape or tab. Usually, though, ...
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Difference between .3gp files and .amr files?
Perhaps this is a very basic question, but I wanted to know what the difference is between a .3gp sound file and a .amr sound file. Are both of these files playable, and if so, what are some Windows 7 ...
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How to disable the sound when logging off / locking / switching users?
I need to disable the sound that gets emitted on Windows 7 when a user logs off. I presume it should be as easy as finding the sound file that gets played and renaming it while logged in with ...
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Microphone not working in earphone/microphone combo port on an HP 450-a12il desktop
I have an HP 450-a12il desktop. This CPU has an earphone/mic combo jack on the front, but when I plug in a combo earphone, only the output works not the input. Is there a way to fix this. I am ...
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Application input and output audio through two separate devices?
I am running windows 8.1 64 bit, and have a soundblaster zxr sound card (this may or may not be relevant in some way). I am also using an M-Audio Fast Track USB audio interface, which has its own ...
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How to play audio through both headphones and speakers when headphones are plugged in?
I want to be able to listen to audio through both headphones and speakers when I have headphones plugged in. When I go to manage playback devices (as recommended by other SuperUser posts about this ...
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Bluetooth speaker not automatically being connected
After disabling my Toshiba Bluetooth driver and rolling back to the Windows 8 driver (because I couldn't get to the Enhancements tab) I'm having issues with my speaker automatically connecting.
The ...
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Force 5.1 Wasapi on windows 10
I currently have a home theater receiver (STR-DN840) on a 5.1 configuration connected to my PC (Windows 10) trough HDMI using the graphics card (GTX-760). I currently have KODI and I have it on my ...
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no sounds in slackware 14.01?
I have laptop hp pavilion 15n245se
I recently installed Slackware 14.01 but there is no sounds but running phonon and testing produces sounds (piece of music) and when I press the raise volume key in ...
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Can I use my computer's headphone output as an input on another device (android phone)?
So what I mean is this:
I put a 3.5mm male jackplug in the headphone output of my laptop, and then on the other end of the cord is another 3.5mm jackplug that I plug into my phone, so when I call ...
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Replace segment with ambient noise in Audacity
I have an video recording where the audio part consists of people speaking and various ambient noise, where I would like to remove some of the spoken parts.
I am not a sound engineer pro, but I ...
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Headphones not showing up in playback devices menu - windows 10
I recently upgraded my computer to windows 10 from windows 8.1, and I'd like to set my audio output quality to studio, and apply the same audio enhancements that I used on windows 8.1 .
I can't do ...
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Separate channels with pulseaudio
I have a java voip aplication, jitsi, that uses pulseaudio for sound.
Id like to run two instances of them at the same time, and make the sound from one go to the right channel, and from the other ...
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Driver issues with windows 7 re-installation
My copy of Windows 7 crashed. It refused to start, and all options to restore windows failed to work. I reinstalled windows, only to find that under windows.old, all my old files were still on my hard ...
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Windows 10 registry setting for volume control [duplicate]
Our company has several conference room computers running Windows 10 that need the volume set to 25% when a user logs in. Is there a registry setting to set the system volume at 25% so the sound isn'...
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Dxdiag showing wrong audio device
I am trying to run a game and getting an error which is commonly caused due to audio misconfig. So, I checked my dxdiag and for some reason it's showing audio drivers last updated on 2010 (HDAudio.sys)...
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No sound in headphones (Windows 10)
I recently upgraded my Asus P500CA laptop from Windows 7 to Windows 10. The upgrade process went fine, however, no sound is coming through my headphones even though there is sound coming out from the ...
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Windows 10 file association, does not hold from search menu
I am facing a weird problem, I am using foobar (latest as of now, 1.3.8) to play mp3's in Windows 10,
foobar is set as the default app for music, as is the '.mp3' extension,
when I open an mp3 file ...
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More convenient volume changer
I find it inconvenient to have to hunt for the little volume icon in the bottom right, then have to hunt for the little slider knob, drag it and press enter. More so because sometimes I want to change ...
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ffmpeg equivalent for -movflags faststart for audio
I have several video and audio files on my server that I wish to stream. I have converted all video files to mp4 and audio files to aac.
Now I am streaming both type of files but it seems audio ...
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Audio driver conflict between nVidia and Realtek
I bought a ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0 motherboard with integrated Realtek audio. I have a MSI GeForce GTX 960 Gaming with HD output that has Nvidia HD drivers installed. Somehow my audio outputs on my ...
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decrease volume of existing audio stream in a video ffmpeg
I am trying to add new audio to a video at a particular point in a video (which has its own audio stream). I used the first answer in this question to achieve it: ffmpeg placing audio at specific ...
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FFMpeg. Add frames black front and back video with audio
I have two valid ways to add black before and after video:
ffmpeg -i testa444.mov -f lavfi -i "color=c=black:s=1920x1080:r=25" -filter_complex "[0:v] setpts=PTS-STARTPTS [main]; [1:v] trim=end_frame=...
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No sound after 5 minutes
I play a video and the sound stops working after 5 minutes.
I launch a game and sound stops working after 5 minutes.
Restarting the Windows Audio service via services.msc re-enables sound for ...
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No sound in mplayer - A_OPUS codec
mplayer2 fails to play the sound of some .mkv files. I installed vlc and it is able to play with sound. mplayer2 output:
MPlayer2 2.0-728-g2c378c7-4+b1 (C) 2000-2012 MPlayer Team
Playing Invisible ...
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Audio solution for multiple inputs and outputs
I have multiple 3.5mm Audio inputs (PC, TV and the ability to expand in the future) and I have multiple 3.5mm outputs which I'd like them to play to (Speakers, a headset and soon to purchase a ...
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Lync 2013 no audio device without webcam
Hope someone has a solution to this.
Let me describe the issue, I work at a company where we have Cisco MX300 G2 meeting room screens, those screens has built in speakers and works fine with the ...
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overlay audio files to existing video at specific points
I am currently using a command similar to this: ffmpeg add audio but keep video length the same (not -shortest)
I want to be able to add an audio file on top of an existing video (which will have its ...
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