Sound Recorder just doesn't work (ogg)

[Duncan Lithgow]

Sound Recorder 2.14.0
Ubuntu Dapper updated today ()

Microphone works, as I can hear it in my speakers.

No complaints when I try to record in lossy ogg, but when asked to play it back it complains:

"Error
You do not have a decoder installed to handle this file. You might need to install the necessary plugins."

But this is a default install, nothing fancy and ogg should play out of the box. It won't play back in VLC or Totem by the way.

Recording for 5 seconds gives a file 29,6 KB (30354 bytes), so something's in there.

[Aaron Whitehouse (aaron-whitehouse)]

Hi Duncan,

Could this be the same issue described in Bug 38700 ? i.e. are you using "Voice, Lossy (Ogg Multimedia)"?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Do you still have the issue? Could you reply to the previous question?

[Duncan Lithgow (duncan-lithgow)]

Thanks for reminding me to get back to this Sebastian. I've marked it as a duplicate of #38700

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Do you still have that issue?

[Aaron Whitehouse (aaron-whitehouse)]

Works fine for me now, thanks Sebastien!

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

you're welcome, that was probably the same issue than bug #34904 which has been fixed with the new gst-plugins-good0.10 version

[silviu (star2ro)]

In the new ubuntu 9.04 when I record something in the .ogg format ..does not work at all. The sound is malformated, but if I save in .mp3 or .spx it's ok ! I have made update from previous ubuntu 8.10 ... in this one I have no problems.