Recording timer is not correct

[Matt Layman]

Binary package hint: sound-recorder

I upgraded to Intrepid and attempted to make a quick recording because it seems to be an easy indicator to tell if my audio set up is correct. With the exact same machine, sound recorder worked perfectly normally with Hardy Heron before I did the upgrade, so I'm certain that this is a regression for my computer.

As soon as I hit the record button, the Length counter started increasing at a rate that is far above a normal seconds counter. After about two seconds, the recorder indicated that I had already recorded 1 min and 15 seconds of audio. I clicked stop and it took some time (maybe 15 seconds) before the application became responsive again.

My "Record from input" was set to "Capture" (which was the only available option), and I selected "Record as" to be "CD Quality, Lossy (.oga type)", but the same problem occurred when I selected "CD Quality, MP3 (.mp3 type)".

I don't have any good methods of doing audio debugging in linux, so if someone needs to see some additional command line output, just let me know and I completely comfortable with providing that data.

[Matt Layman (mblayman)]

I guess I should add that it also failed to actually record anything. When I hit play for the test that I just did, the length jumped up to 2 min and 7 seconds and no audio played back during that time.

[pablomme (pablomme)]

Metooing.

In my particular case, I have a desktop (Intrepid upgraded from Hardy) and a laptop (fresh Intrepid install). On both the sound recorder works well. However this weekend I've installed Intrepid on three other laptops (one upgrade, two fresh), and all three of them have this problem.

The hardware disparity among the five computers (all are completely different) leads me to think that this is a general problem, and that there is something special about the setup in my two computers that fixes it. I've tinkered with the audio setup quite a bit on both, since I use programs like Ardour, Hydrogen etc for real-time sound processing, so there must be some setting I've changed or some program/library I've installed that cures gnome-sound-recorder.

My first attempt at repeating my setup on one of the three affected laptops failed, though. Can anyone think of what could it be that fixes the problem?

[pablomme (pablomme)]

Corrected sound-recorder -> gnome-media (which includes gnome-sound-recorder)

[pablomme (pablomme)]

Silly me. The difference was that I had the intrepid-proposed repository on my computes but not on the other three. One of the updates in there fixes it, then, although I'm not sure which (gstreamer maybe?).

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

that's bug #282316