Xvidcap record sound with Alsa

Hello guys,
I'm running the latest version of xvidcap 64bit from the repos and would like to record audio as well as video. I run also alsa and thought I would have sound when I install alsa-oss as I've read somewhere that xvidcap needs OSS to record audio.
Can anyone help me out how to enable sound recording?
Thank you

Try wiki re alsamixer settings.

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client 128: 'FLUID Synth (1017)' [type=user]
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Last edited by Janusz11 (2014-10-04 08:26:54)

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