4k Webcam With Microphone
Irmgard Rossie
I just purchased a Logitech C920 webcam to use with an external monitor for my Windows 11 laptop. The video works great, but the microphone isn't working. Zoom detects the webcam microphone and will use it as its audio source, but the result is silent. This is true both using the Test Microphone function in Settings as well as in a meeting. The webcam microphone works fine with the Windows Sound Recorder app, so it's not a hardware issue. Any suggestions for how to make it work in Zoom?
I've seen a lot of issues with Windows 11 audio. Check out this Community post to see if that helps... if they don't work for you, please search here for "Windows 11 sound audio" or variations and see if you can find something specific to your setup.
Another thing I'd check is the "Allow applications to take exclusive control of this device"... mine is checked, and everything works fine, but if you have anything in the background that might be grabbing the mic, unchecking this might help:
i used to have a c920 and now have a logitech brio. both worked fine with win 11 and zoom. please check the microphone volume setting. i have mine set to automatically adjust microphone volume. please see attached screenshot.
I use Linux for nearly all my work. While I do have a Mac OS system and can run Windows 10 in a virtual machine, my daily driver is a workstation running Ubuntu 20.04. The laptop I carry to client sites or when speaking at conferences is also running Linux on metal. You will increasingly be hearing from me about how to run a business on Linux in the 2020s.
Basically, I never want to use the USB Webcam as an audio input device. Thankfully Linux makes configuration possible. The first step is to determine the USB device ID with the lsusb command. For my C920 webcam the line read as:
Then after physically unplugging the USB webcam and plugging it back in, going back to the Gnome sound GUI shows that the unwanted low quality webcam microphone is gone from the list of input devices!
This should work with other Linux systems as well, but I have only tested it on my own. The original article that I found on this technique is Blacklisting a single USB device from Linux (2014). You can find out more about how the Linux kernel handles this at Authorizing (or not) your USB devices to connect to the system.
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I just bought a Logitech c920e webcam that has a built in microphone. I have been using it on my work computer (Dell running Windows) and sound and video work great. I moved it to my mac mini running Big Sur and the microphone doesn't work. In fact, the microphone doesn't even show, either under microphone in system preferences or under utilities>MIDI. I'm unsure of what my next steps are. All the threads I've researched have what to do under either of those settings and not what to do if its not a choice. If anyone has an idea of next steps, I'd love to hear it. I've tried plugging straight into the mac mini, using a powered USB hub...and the only thing I can get to work is the camera, not the microphone.
I'm attempting to get my microphone and webcam working in a windows 10 guest. There was nothing on the wiki stating that I needed to do anything specific, except adding my user to vboxusers. After doing that, Windows still can't detect my webcam or my microphone. Can anyone recommend anything else I could try to get virtualbox working? My speakers work just fine, so I'm not sure why the microphone is not available. This is on a dell xps 13 laptop if that's relevant.
This could possibly be an access rights problem. If running the command as root sudo arecord -l finds a card, then check if you (the respective user) are a member of the group audio. If you are not a member of the group audio, then add yourself to the group via sudo adduser audio.
I had to go into chrome://settings/content/microphone and select the 'USB Audio-Hardware device with all software conversations' from the dropdown menu. Default nor any of the other selections worked.
It depends a little on which application you are needing to give access for. However, generally most tools are very similar and request to allow camera and audio before they start filming.
I teach first grade so when I make an assignment in BLEND I would like to record the directions. When I click on the Record/Upload Media button and then the Record button I get the message "Please allow canvas to access your microphone and webcam'. I don't know where/how I can give them permission. Please advice. Thank you.
Perhaps try clearing your computers cache and restarting it, and see if that fixes the issue. If none of that works, then I would recommend contacting Canvas Support to see if they can help. To do this click on the Help link and Report a Problem.
Hallelujah! I figured it out. I had to go into my CHROME settings to figure it out. While logged into Canvas, look at the top of your browser. See the 3 little dots at the top right? Click on them. Then...click on settings. This will open up a new browser. Scroll down until you see "site settings." Click on it. It should open up so that you see the Canvas website listed. Click on the arrow to the right to access permissions for Canvas. You can then ALLOW microphone and camera to be accessed by this website. TA - DA! I hope this explanation was clear and helpful.
I am also experiencing this same issue. I too am using Chrome, and I get a message much like Beverly's message, without any options to "allow." Have any fixes been identified? Does anyone else have this same problem?
I'm afraid I haven't figured it out yet, Jael. I almost wonder if there is some kind of Chrome setting that I need to change. I did try a couple of other browsers (like Edge and Firefox), and things seem to be working fine there. It's just a Chrome issue, and this is a shame since that is my preferred browser.
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Each time I want to use Skype, I have to go in the sound preferences. And there, turn the audio-in to "webcam" and uncheck the "mute" button. It's quite annoying. Is there a way to always keep the same configuration ?
When running pulseaudio all settings can be defined by putting custom configuration files in the hidden .pulse directory in your HOME. If these file do not yet exist there you can use the standard files from /etc/pulse/ as a template. Most entries have verbous explanations in these files.
Quick and dirty. Make the udev rule run su james -c pacmd set-default-source...this is sooo wrong I can't even finish typing the command. What if you change webcams? What if you install this for another user?
Slightly cleaner. Run a script that reads a defaults file which has the pulseaudio device name, and your username in it. If you want the files they are on GitHub. First the script /usr/local/bin/webcam-mic. The defaults file /etc/default/webcam-mic just needs to define the 2 shell variables, as per the comment in the gist.Put the script into /usr/local/bin/ and make it executable. Then put the defaults file into /etc/defaults/ and edit it to use your username and the pulseaudio device from earlier.
There were two issues for me with the solution by Takkat. First, I realised that there needs to be a delay after startup before the switch to the microphone can take place (I use the command 'sleep' in my solution below). Also, the command 'set-default-source' was working to switch the USB microphone on, but somehow Skype was not recognising this and continued to use the internal microphone.
In the output, find the index number of the USB audio you want (in my case, this was '1'). Then have a look at the lines listed under 'profiles' for both the default card and USB card. These should be the same as the ones listed in pavucontrol, and can be something like 'ouput:input+output', 'off', or 'input:analog-mono' etc. Still in the pacmd command line, the command set-card-profile should change the settings in pavucontrol. What we want to do here is to switch the internal audio from duplex to output only, and the USB to input.
Once found the appropriate profiles, we want to create a startup command to change a few settings just after startup. To create a startup command, open the dash and search for 'startup applications', then click 'add', then enter a name of your choice and the appropriate command below.
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