On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Al Thompson <althompson58@gmail.com> wrote:
On 01/28/2012 12:41 PM, Rustom Mody wrote:
> Ive been wanting to record the output of firefox(flash of some sort).
>
> I followed http://jackaudio.org/routing_alsa
> and connected the firefox output into audacity.
> It works but the original firefox sound is much louder and clearer
> than the recording even when done at full volume.
>
> So two questions
>
> 1. Is it possible to capture the pcm data that jack is sending into a
> file and then to convert that file (sox??) to wav.
> I tried arecord and audacity -- they were both similar
>
> 2. Any better/more proper way to do this?

Why not just normalize the wave once you have it in audacity??

Thanks for directing me to normalize.
From that I get that there is significant 'DC offset'.
What that is (I think) I understand.
Why I dont...