Microphone Recording

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Mon, 02/08/2010 - 21:00

Joined: 02/08/2010

Points: 3

From the wiki page:

The wizard supports multiple file uploads, webcam and microphone recording and importing media from external sources (e.g. YouTube, Flickr, etc.).

I could be reading that wrong, but it sounds like the CW allows you to record audio and video, or just audio, from the user's computer. I can't figure out how to turn on an audio-only recorder, though... is this possible? Am I just reading things wrong?

Thanks,
-Brian

Tue, 02/09/2010 - 16:45

Kalturian

Joined: 01/05/2009

Points: 1414

Hi,

There is no specific view for AUDIO ONLY functionality. the wizard is able to record audio only, however using the webcam view in case the user doesn't have a webcam but does has microphone.

Wed, 02/10/2010 - 06:09

whitmer

Joined: 02/08/2010

Points: 3

That's cool, except that from what I can tell it's not actually possible to record a webcam-less audio stream. If you don't have a webcam installed then you can't get past the "select webcam" dropdown to even start recording.

I've directed my users to install the Google Video & Chat plugin for GMail since that will add a webcam option to the list even if the user has no webcams installed, but that's pretty hackish.

Is there not a way to say, for example, "I don't have a webcam, I'll just record audio"?

-Brian