I have a Debian Sarge box that I am trying to get icecast2 and ices2 up and running on. I'm having problems, but do not know where to look to identify the problem. I have my audio working with ALSA - microphone in plays through my audio out. I'm running a basic configuration using the defaults provided, and the ALSA example config file for ices. When I try to connect to the server using WinAmp, I hear nothing. I'm not sure where to start the debugging process. Any help would be appreciated. -- William McKeehan KI4HDU Internet: mckeehan@mckeehan.homeip.net http://mckeehan.homeip.net
William McKeehan wrote:> I have my audio working with ALSA - microphone in plays through my audio out.This means that your microphone is unmuted in playback, but this does not mean that it is "captured" for recording or that some other master record level is not set at 0. First,try recording and seeing if you can hear anything. arecord filename.wav (the quality won't be high but that's not important) Then play it back. aplay filename.wav If you can hear your microphone then the problem isn't occuring before Ices. If you hear silence, do the following: 1. Load up alsamixer. 2. Cursor across to Mic and check that it is captured. If it isn't, press space and it should capture. 3. If you're using something like an SBLive, you may well need to turn up some kind of master record volume. I have an SBLive and on my card, the control is called Capture and I currently have it at about 40%. Where you should have it will depend on the strength of your input signal. If you change anything and it subsequently works, don't forget to run "alsactl store" as root to save your settings so they are reloaded next time you boot the system. Hope this helps. Geoff.
Well, I did have some things messed up with my alsa mixer settings, but with your example commands below for using arecord and aplay, I was able to get them correct, so now arecord will record from the microphone and aplay plays the recorded file...but...still nothing when I start ices2. Do yave any next steps for debugging? I really appreciate the help! On Sun, June 12, 2005 5:42 pm, Geoff Shang said:> William McKeehan wrote: > >> I have my audio working with ALSA - microphone in plays through my audio >> out. > > This means that your microphone is unmuted in playback, but this does not > mean that it is "captured" for recording or that some other master record > level is not set at 0. > > First,try recording and seeing if you can hear anything. > > arecord filename.wav (the quality won't be high but that's not important) > > Then play it back. > > aplay filename.wav > > If you can hear your microphone then the problem isn't occuring before > Ices. > > If you hear silence, do the following: > > 1. Load up alsamixer. > > 2. Cursor across to Mic and check that it is captured. If it isn't, press > space and it should capture. > > 3. If you're using something like an SBLive, you may well need to turn up > some kind of master record volume. I have an SBLive and on my card, the > control is called Capture and I currently have it at about 40%. Where you > should have it will depend on the strength of your input signal. > > If you change anything and it subsequently works, don't forget to run > "alsactl store" as root to save your settings so they are reloaded next > time you boot the system. > > Hope this helps. > > Geoff. > > _______________________________________________ > Icecast mailing list > Icecast@xiph.org > http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/icecast >-- William McKeehan KI4HDU Internet: mckeehan@mckeehan.homeip.net http://mckeehan.homeip.net
I figured it out...it would help if I used a player that supported the ogg format. Thanks for all of the help! On Sun, June 12, 2005 5:42 pm, Geoff Shang said:> William McKeehan wrote: > >> I have my audio working with ALSA - microphone in plays through my audio >> out. > > This means that your microphone is unmuted in playback, but this does not > mean that it is "captured" for recording or that some other master record > level is not set at 0. > > First,try recording and seeing if you can hear anything. > > arecord filename.wav (the quality won't be high but that's not important) > > Then play it back. > > aplay filename.wav > > If you can hear your microphone then the problem isn't occuring before > Ices. > > If you hear silence, do the following: > > 1. Load up alsamixer. > > 2. Cursor across to Mic and check that it is captured. If it isn't, press > space and it should capture. > > 3. If you're using something like an SBLive, you may well need to turn up > some kind of master record volume. I have an SBLive and on my card, the > control is called Capture and I currently have it at about 40%. Where you > should have it will depend on the strength of your input signal. > > If you change anything and it subsequently works, don't forget to run > "alsactl store" as root to save your settings so they are reloaded next > time you boot the system. > > Hope this helps. > > Geoff. > > _______________________________________________ > Icecast mailing list > Icecast@xiph.org > http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/icecast >-- William McKeehan KI4HDU Internet: mckeehan@mckeehan.homeip.net http://mckeehan.homeip.net