No sound with Cheese when doing video recording

**linuxneeewb** · May 4th, 2009

Hello. I am using Ubuntu 9.04 64 bit edition, and I recently was able to get the video recorder working in the program Cheese Webcam Booth. My problem is that while I can get the webcam to make videos of images, I cannot get it to record sound. Any help is appreciate with getting the webcam program to record sound with the videos. I know that I can make videos with audio in Windows Vista, so I assume that I can do it in Ubuntu.

Thanks

**kpkeerthi** · May 4th, 2009

Double-click on the speaker icon in the tray and check if mic is muted

**linuxneeewb** · May 4th, 2009

My sound is fully up. Mic is not muted. I wish the problem were that simple.

**Potters Son** · May 9th, 2009

Can you record using Audacity? I know that I can't get sound in Cheese, but I can't get it Audacity either.

**bob12564** · July 21st, 2009

I'm having the same problem. I think the problem is that the built-in mike is a USB device and enabling "microphone" in the sound mixer won't work. Webcams are USB devices and you don't plug anything into the computer's microphone jack. My webcam works fine in Skype but I get a USB device listed in the "sound in" list. I haven't figured out what to select to get Cheese working. The video is fine.

**slughappy1** · July 29th, 2009

I am also running 64 bit Jaunty. I have a Logitech QuickCam Pro 400. I was able to get video AND sound in Cheese finally. I had to go into System -> Preferences -> Sound. Then under "Audio Conferencing" I had to change the "Sound capture:" I changed it to USB Device ... USB Audio (ALSA). The OSS version didn't work, and none of the other choices did anything. Hope that can help.

**felixq78** · May 7th, 2011

Originally Posted by Potters Son

Can you record using Audacity? I know that I can't get sound in Cheese, but I can't get it Audacity either.

If you're getting video in Cheese check that your audio has the USB cam selected for audio.
Left click on the speaker icon at top panel
Left click "sound preferences"
Left click the "input" tag and then select your webcam from the list.

**rx007** · May 7th, 2011

Originally Posted by felixq78

If you're getting video in Cheese check that your audio has the USB cam selected for audio.
Left click on the speaker icon at top panel
Left click "sound preferences"
Left click the "input" tag and then select your webcam from the list.

this one did the trick for me.