Microphone/Audio Problems

I recently purchased an Inspirion 14 5447 laptop. Everything was working great until I tried to video chat with friends. The microphone would not work. I could hear the other participants and play music so the speakers were working fine. I could not record a sound in the sound recorder. The more I investigated the more fristrated I got. I called a technical support representative and together we tried for hours to resolve the issue. Nothing seemed to work including reinstalling the audio drivers and even refreshing the computer. The only option I was given at that point was to ship the computer to a depot for a warranty service.
The next day I opend my laptop and heard a ringing/echo coming from the speakers (like when a microphone has interfearance at a concert). When I opened the Dell Audio window (not sound) the microphone was turned "off". As soon as I hit mute the noise stopped. If I unmuted and turned the microphone to "on", the microphone would stop working all together. Basically my microphone works, so long as it is actually turned "off". Something in the audio driver seems to be messed up.I seem to have found a way to make things work, but I was wondering if there was an explanation or permanent repair for this problem.

If you first noticed the problem when trying to video chat, settings in your video chat utility could be attempting to control the microphone. If you are using SKYPE the following document may be of help.
Here is a "FIX IT" page from Microsoft that may help as well.
You can also manually change it in Windows.
Right click on the speaker icon on the toolbar and choose recording devices. Choose the microphone from the list and choose properties.
Click the Advanced tab.
Under Exclusive Mode make sure that " Allow applications to take exclusive control of this device" is not checked.
I hope that this helped
TB

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My system is:
p35 platinum - bios v 1.4
e6420
2x1GB DDR2 geil ultra
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I've been using CP4 for over 1.5 years. Using xp professional on work pc and Vista on home PC.
When I record audio it has always automatically ajusted my volume when setting the microphone level. I then record and playback/edit. Sometime I insert audio into the original recording - no problems.
2 days ago I tried recording. The audio was overdriving and distorting the recorded audio wave file. When I looked at my microphone audio settings via Contro panel>audio settings - it was pegged at maximum
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If I record in Adobe presenter or Soundbooth on the work pc, everything works OK.
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Should I reinstall the SW? Haven't tried that yet, but need some help.
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When I play them back on my computer, the audio is fine! I can hear the mic recordings in it along with the computer audio.
ALTHOUGH, whenever I upload the .MOV to a site like youtube or facebook, the microphone audio is gone completly or the levels of each one in relation to eachother is far different than it originally was.
Im trying to think what the problem is. I guess there is info embedded into these quicktime movie files.
Is there something I can fix for it like just right click it and change something? Or do I have to actually convert the file into something else to fix it? And if I do need to convert it, what should I change it to so the audio would be fixed when streamed on the internet?
Also, is there a setting in the export in SnapzPro to prevent this dilema in the first place?
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Hey, thanks for your reply
I wasn't aware about the quicktime thing up to 99 tracks before
It seemed like a little too much work for what you were mentioning, so what I tried was I opened up my quicktime and saw they had export for web
I did that, and set it for desktop and not iphone...It was an h.264 also.
when it exported it went down to an extremly small file size wit decent video quality! I uploaded it to facebook and it worked out great
Although, my other video, entirely different which I have been planning on uploading to youtube I tried the same thing. I did the quicktime's export for web
When I uploaded it to youtube the audio was fine, although the video was going EXTREMLY fast and completly out of synch.
What do you think? Thanks!

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All 3 of my USB audio microphones/headsets do not work with my 2013 iMac running Mavericks
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All 3 of these microphones/headsets work fine with my 2013 Macbook Air running Mavericks
In this other thread, several people are reporting similar issues with the iMac 2013 and Mavericks. At least two people did not have the issue when the iMac 2013 was running Mountain Lion. This of course suggests the issue is the combination of the iMac 2013 and Mavericks.

Apple>About This Mac>More Info>Service
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You have 14 days to return the computer w/no questions asked.
You have 90 days of FREE phone tech support on top of your standard 1 year warranty unless you also purchased AppleCare which gives you an additional 2 years of coverage plus FREE phone support.
Strongly suggest that you take FULL advantage of the above before it runs out. Let Apple deal w/the problems.

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Hi friends
I too have a macbook pro running 10.6.6 and an odd audio problem which has recently shown itself and although different to Luiscv's problem, may well be related.
My audio works fine through the built in speakers but gets all fruity with some but not all audio as soon as I plug in the headphones. I get crystal clear audio when playing mp3's through quicktime whether I have the headphones plugged in or not.
youtube flash movies through Safari and VLC .mkv files are problematic. I do get audio but the stereo sound somehow gets split so the dialogue gets very quiet and fuzzy and the musical soundtrack gets louder.
If this is a codec/decompression issue why does the sound come good when I unplug the headphones? Why are some files totally fine with both headphones and internal speakers?
I have updated perian, zapped p-ram, repaired permissions all to no avail.
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Sometimes it can take over an hour of steady use, my last time was watching a movie on Netflix. I initially noticed this using a USB DAC Headphone Amp.
I never had any Audio problems before, my machine is over 1 year old.
I enjoy watching movies in iTunes and DVDs, but this is making it difficult! A full restart usually fixes the problem for a time but it will eventually come back
I'm seriously thinking of going back to Lion for the time being and seeing if it is a Hardware problem.

i don't know if mine is the same issue, but i had no sound through any of my applications after upgrading to mountain lion. here is what i had to do to fix it:
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This solution is for WINDOWS ONLY!!! Unfortunately I believe
it is a bug in flash itself as I have read more than one instance
of this same no audio problem occuring on MAC'S and LINUX based
systems as well. IF YOU KNOW OF SOLUTIONS TO THE MAC OR LINUX BASED
PROBLEMS, PLEASE POST THEM IN THIS THREAD.
Description of the problem: Video sites such as YouTube,
VideoSift, Break, Google Videos, Yahoo, and a plethora of others do
not stream embedded audio. Viewing a YouTube video, for example, on
VideoSift.com results in the video playing back with no audio.
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THERE ARE SEVERAL POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS.
Problem: You may be missing your WAVEMAPPER driver.
Cause: Wavemapper driver was removed during installation or
updating of the Flash Player. It might not necessarily be Flash
that removes it but apparently something does.
Solution #1: Google "Flash No Audio WAVEMAPPER" for
directions, its been covered a bunch, but basically requires
running REGEDIT and readding the WAVEMAPPER key to the appropriate
location and value in the registry. Its not as difficult as it
sounds.
http://weyland.be/wrdprss/index.php/2006/08/22/no-sound-in-macromedia-flash-player-9/
if your wavemapper key is installed correctly...
Possible Cause: Corrupted or damaged flash content preventing
audio streaming from working correctly.
Soltuion #2: Run CC Cleaner and delete only cached Flash
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Cleaner". This particular solution worked for me.
If CC Cleaner also does not work, the description of your
problem may differ slightly. In my case on several computers, one
day it worked, the next day it didnt. If it never worked, this
would be a logical solution for you. One variation of this that I
have found is to create a new Windows User Account and log into it.
The reason the CC Cleaner method may work better is that the User
Accounts have their own separate cache folders so a corrupted cache
preventing audio playback on one profile will not be available on
the other User Account to cause the same problem. I wont explain
how to do this as the CC Cleaner will work better but if you are
curious, yet again google "create new windows user accounts". I
have also seen this method work on one of my affected computers but
it did not fix the issue on the account I was having problems with.
http://www.ccleaner.com Install
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your media source and view its content. Basically if you dont have
a codec, you cant observe the content of the media. If you have a
VCR and want to play back a DVD, you are out of luck unless you get
a DVD Player. DivX and XVid Codecs are some of the very popular
codecs used on the net, but to get those, I still suggest getting
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Solution #4: Go back to Flash 7. If it aint broke dont fix
it. This Final alternative is only to be used as a last resort.
You'll have to get rid of Flash 9 and go back to Flash 7. The
really tricky part here is that you have to prevent Flash from auto
updating itself. If you install Flash 7, and hit up YouTube, you'll
immediately get Flash 9+ installed again with the same problems. So
AFTER you uninstall Flash 9 (use Macromedias / Adobes uninstaller,
yet again go google it) make a new text file and name it MMS.CFG,
in the file put this one line "AutoUpdateDisable=1" (without the
quotes) and put it in BOTH your c:\windows\system32 AND
c:\windows\system32\Macromed\Flash folders. This will prevent flash
from Auto Updating to 9+, then have to find some place to download
the old flash 7 installer. I found one here.
http://www.intercomm.com/downloads/Flash7.
Only problem is that most sites will try to make you install Flash
9 and Flash 7 does not work on all sites, but it does on some like
YouTube. DO NOT UPDATE TO FLASH 9+ IF YOU USE THIS METHOD.
You will probably want to IMMEDIATELY go to
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager05.htm l
after installing Flash 7 and UNCHECK the update feature
I've tried to write this quick little guide at 3AM so Im not
going to take more time to research other ways to fix this problem.
If you have other solutions, such as for MAC and LINUX, or feel
like adding on to something else that I've written here (links
would be useful to the downloads I suggested) or correcting any
mistakes I probably have made, please say so.
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i use onboard VGA
800 x600for both games
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the screen looks so dark...
all players look like a black people(all black color hair
and black face))
some audio problem with NHL 2003...

Have you tried the following?
Adjust monitor settings? i.e. contrast/brightness
Video settings within the game? Some have gamma or brightness settings.
Gamma correction in "Display Properties"?
for starters anyway......

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I am using trial versions of Adobe Presenter 7 and Adobe Connect 8.
I created a presentation in in Powerpoint 2002 and published through Adobe Presenter to Adobe Connect Pro. This presentation has voice over recorded through the Adobe Presenter "record audio" option.
In Adobe Connect Pro, I created a meeting and shared the above mentioned presentation through the "Share Document" option in Connect Pro.
Now, when I play the presentation in this Adobe Connect Meeting, I am not getting any audio that was recorded in Adobe Presenter. Whereas if I play the published presentation directly it plays the recorded audio.
Can anyone help me on this?
1. Are there any settings to be done in Powerpoint or Adobe Presenter or Connect pro?
2. Is it the problem of Trial Account or something like that?
Please let me know the solution. Need to work on this ASAP!!!
Thanks in Advance,
Yogini

This is a weird one. If you created a prezo with audio and published it to AC (Adobe Connect) and everything worked fine on your desktop then it should work fine in AC i.e. there are no other settings required on AC's side, it should just play.
As I am typing this I thought of similar audio problems that we have experienced in the past. A big one would be where another user created a PPT on their laptops and handed it to us. When testing the audio did not work. Reason being is that not all the files were coppied over BUT I must accept that this is not your problem as it definately worked on your PC before you published it to AC.
Wait there is one setting in the publish settings. In the output options tick "Upload source presentation with assests", then tick audio.
I cannot think of anything else. There is a man called Heyward Drummond on the Adobe Connect General forum, who is a real master at answering queries like this. Why not post your query there and see if he comes up with an answer?

Audio Problems when burning

I have tried making disc image, burning disc and the audio will pause for second several times in the play back. It does not do it when playing back in iDVD.
The slide show was started in iPhoto and sent to iDVD. I have started over several times and still same issue. Makes a bad impression and is really not useable for presentation.
I have 30 gigs free space, changed settings to Professional encoding and still same issue. I have no open apps, changed all energy settings and screen saver to never.
Any ideas, I am fresh out, never had this problem with previous version.
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Andy,
This question is really in the wrong place - this is the iDVD '08 forum and not the iDVD 5 forum.
From the description of your problem using Toast, it sounds like you didn't actually export a DV video movie out of iMovie.
Export a DV video movie out of iMovie (it will run 13 GB per hour) and play it back with the QuickTime Player to see if the audio settings you made are really there. If this movie plays OK, you can bring IT into iDVD or Toast for turning it into a DVD.
If the DV video movie you created STILL has audio problems in the QuickTime Player, ask you question about THAT issue in the correct iMovie forum.
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