ffmpeg recording desktop audio properly
 

Hi, I'm recording my desktop with this ffmpeg command:
and although it's working, I'm getting tinny, far-away sounding audio.
Is there a way to more directly capture the sound or just get it sounding good?

Make sure that you have the record volume controls turned up. Could be called ogain, igain, pcm1, rec etc. depending on your sound system. Gmixer does a good job showing all of them.

Your command looks fine. Bet it's a volume control.

oh that sux, I recorded myself trying "every" setting in alsamixer and still didn't get good sound

I'm stumped

Since you're having problems with the audio you might try to troubleshoot just it.
Launch ffmpeg with
or
Then play a media file or speek into your mic. That will get you 128k mp3 audio that any Linux or BSD box should do. Eliminate pcm or x264 as a cause. If you still don't have audio then find that mixer control that isn't up.

Hey, thanks for your help but I'm not getting good results from linux. I guess it's a problem with alsa, but I can't really be fussed installing gstreamer, trying oss or fixing the audio with audacity, so I'll prolly just try windows (when it's convenient to do so) -it's not a high priority, I just wanted to record some streaming tv at dw-world (tomorrow today, if you're interested) but I can just watch it once, 'cause I'm not fussed