no sound on Photo Booth video when recorded

record simple videos through the built in isight?

http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/cameratoquicktime.html

Hi EZ Jim,

thank you for your suggestion. I tried to reinstall Leopard using Archive and Install and it didn't work, so I reinstalled Leopard using a full Erase and Install. Then Photo Booth was finally working normally again (ie recording sound while taking a video). So now I'm reinstalling all my other software one by one to find out which program is the culprit.

Winghin

Brilliant. Thanks a million!

I had no sound and thought I'd try the flicking suggestion.. HOWEVER... I interpreted this suggestion to go to system preferences and to the sound then input menu and 'flick' (toggle) the choices back and forth between internal microphone and line in. THIS WORKED. I did not have to reinstall anything NOR did I physically flick the microphone.

Jakalin

My PB intermittently records audio with video. There are two videos my daughter recorded which have no audio. One of them in particular I would really like to have the audio to (she recored it the morning our pet died and she was talking about losing him). I have tried opening those videos in Quicktime and they have no audio there either.

If PB is not playing the video with audio, does the audio track not exist? I just keep hoping that the audio track exists and that I'll be able to salvage it somehow. I'm afraid that it just didn't record audio.

PB works fine now...on all the videos I could care less about...

Any ideas? Thanks!

Hello,

yes same problem as mmsulli here. Sometimes sound is recorded, sometimes it's not!

And I don't change any setting in the meantime.

Any solution about this?

Thanks!

I have recently been getting the same problem too. It seems to happen on the longer videos for me, but I haven't done a thorough investigation. I was using it to record song ideas (guitar and signing) and my first thought was that it was automatically reducing the mic input when I was playing loudly, but it seems like it isn't recording at all. However, when I do a quick 5-10 second "test" clip, it almost always works. I guess I'll use something more reliable until a solution is found.

Thanks - that worked for me. I changed the input to line input on my MacBook, restarted Photo Booth (just in case) and recorded - no audio of course as I have nothing attached. Then I changed back to the in built Mic and recorded and audio was restored. Great.

Select "Go" from the finder menu, highlight Photo Booth and keep selecting " the folder above " till the option to select folder above is no longer available and Open Photo Booth.

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*Possible PB audio problem fix*


thanks to larksthrak i thought of this.

i just got my macbook about 2 weeks ago, my old one was form 2004 and battery wouldn't last unless it was always plugged in. I use garage band a lot, and when i read larksthrak say they thought it was "automatically reducing the mic input" i remembered that garage band had the "Feedback Protection" option. and then i remembered that was the last thing i did before PB stopped recording sound. I went in to garageband created a new real instrument track, i put the feedback protection on, then turned the monitor off. opened up PB, recorded a video and audio worked when i played the video back.

i don't know if it did do something or it was a coincidence, but i do know that now audio works for me.

i hope this helps.

Go to HD > System folder > Audio > Plug-ins > HAL > " iSight Audio.Plugin"

If this folder is empty use Time Machine to find a copy of this plugin and place it back in the folder.
When you have another mac around you can make a copy of the plugin and use that.

I ran into this issue last night. A 30 minute video had no sound when playing it through PB and the QT player (I assume PB uses QT on the backend), but a 2.5 minute video did. I opened the 30 minute video in VLC ( http://www.videolan.org), the best multimedia player I know, and the audio track was there.

Admittedly, I have not played with it enough to give more information than that, but for those looking to salvage videos that don't have audio, you may find that the audio is actually there. Good luck!

*I FIXED MY PROBLEMS WITH IT... KINDA! I THINK IT IS MORE A QUICKTIME PROBLEM*
Hey guys... i was having the issue of photo booth not recording sound sometimes, very random but felt like the longer the vid the more likely it was to not have sound in play back... so i was about to delete all the useless mute videos i recorded when i thought i would try to open the .mov files (drag the clip thumbnail from photo booth to a location, eg. desktop) with VLC media player instead of quicktime (7.5) and guess what?!?! it worked! yay! i donno why but i works. 😀 i have been to a few other forums but cant be bothered posting cos not a member and what not so if you are please repost, thanks and good luck

I second thugbj's reply. I think it is a quicktime problem. I opened a photobooth video on VLC and VOILA! it works. So it could be a quicktime problem.

I sent this to Apple's feedback. Hope someone will notice...

Hello Apple

I just found very anoying bug. I tried to record video from iSight integrated camera, but there was no progres. Quicktime Pro only created 0kb .mov, but didn't start recording, only wrote

-Recording failed because no data was received. Make sure that the media input source is turned on and playing. -

I realized that there is something wrong...

First I tried to set differect encoding modes in Quicktime preferences. H.264 - no luck MPEG 4 - no luck. Only Device native worked! But i can't store huge raw movies from isight recording and i don't have time encode them afterwards.

I did some googling and came across few threads in Apple's discussion forums. Same issue as main.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6825744
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1720926&tstart=255
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1388354&tstart=0

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=401100
http://forums.mactalk.com.au/13/48473-problem-movie-recording-quicktime-inbuilt- isight-mbp.html

I learned that problem is in Audio input. When Line-in is selected quicktime can record video in Mpeg4 or H264 without sound because i have no line in microphone. When internal microphone is selected Quicktime Pro can't record H264 or MPEG4 movie from iSight. Photobooth can, but without sound.

I Have MacBook Pro 2.4 GHz (Santa Rosa), 256 MB VRAM, 4 GB RAM, 160 GB HDD (I can send you .SPX if you want)
I have latest 10.5.5 software. All updates = Quicktime 7.5.5 as well.
-> I'm really concerned because same problem happens to users with very different Leopard version (10.5.1 - 10.5.5) and with very differenc Quicktime versions (QT 7.4 - 7.5)

This problem is certainly not HW. ShareWare EvoCam works (video and audio), but i don't want to pay for shareware to replace system-broken feature. Problem is somewhere in OS or QT. No, repairing permission won't help.. 🙂

I hope that Apple know about this and working on solution (update in 10.5.6 or QuickTime)


MichalM.Mac - michalm.mac@gmail.com
III I have no Apple geniuses in this state, so i'll try this feedback. I'd love to hear that Apple is working on this problem. I don't supose that someone will respond to this, but one line with text "we are working" on in would be highly welcomed