Having read your comment, I was curious so downloaded and installed Akita. I discover that the existing pavrecord does indeed have some issues with the ffmpeg version in Akita: x11grab doesn't work from pavrecord and nor does the preview and video player ffplay, because of the ffmpeg version. However, it only required a slight modification to the existing pavrecord to allow it to work with that version of ffmpeg. I will post a special version for Akita tomorrow (and hopefully therefore for some other puppies should they come with that ffmpeg version.sc0ttman wrote:pavrecord will also be included, although I can't seem to get it to do anything except record buggered up audio... Probably Akitas old ffmpeg
On my machine, I do find that the webcam driver provided by Akita doesn't work so well with either of my webcams compared to that in say Slacko-5.3.3. Probably related to the older 2.6.x kernel in Akita. Both my webcams are recognised and work well in Slacko, but one of them gives a very distorted image in Akita and though the other one displays okay, the frame rate is very slow. So that is likely to be the main problem for most users - the older kernel not supporting the webcam very well. If it works in some other app like Xawtv then it will also work in pavrecord, but not otherwise. x11grab/screencasts will certainly work in the modified pavrecord I'll upload, and sound should be okay... but on that topic:
I don't understand your comment that pavrecord produced "buggered up audio". pAVrecord does not use ffmpeg for most of its audio - it simply, for example, uses arecord and lame for mp3 and arecord alone for wav, so it is just alsa in that case. If alsa is therefore working correctly, I cannot understand why the recorded audio should end up garbled (I haven't tried sound with Akita on my test computer as yet because it is late night and my family are sleeping...). But please let me know in detail if you can what the exact problem is with the recorded audio so that I can try and address that too.
Not much I can do if arecord or lame is broken on your system though. However, I'd be grateful if you would check your alsaconf first and perhaps check other recording apps in Akita, such as Bacon record and mhwavedit to see if sound is always recorded garbled. From what I've read Bacon uses the same arecord-lame commandline, though I've never tried it to check that and from experience if mhwavedit records okay, so would the new precord-1.8.4 and pavrecord uses the same audio recording code. I'll check audio recording on my test system with Akita and let you know the result.