recording Skype | The Coffeehouse

IanD

I have been searching for ways to record skype calls for pocasts and its not as simple as it looks I saw Audio hijack pro for the mac would do it, is there a windows program like that? I looked at virtual wires but that wouldn't do it. Any ideas ? I am going to do a Windows Media Center podcast Ian

Minh
WOOH! WOOH!

Any audio recording program should do. You'd just have to switch the recording device to "What U Hear", and any sound your that comes out of your speaker, you can record. Personally, I use Cool Edit, but I just noticed that it's been bought out by Adobe, so I don't know what changes are done to it.

EDIT: Well, any program that lets you do continuous recording that is. The included Windows mini-app SndRec32 will only let you record 30 secs. at a time.

Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

"What U Hear" is actually a Creative invention, the standard Windows mixer doesn't have it afaik. You should still be able to use "Wave" as a recording input though. There's more difficulty though. The problem begins when you also want to record yourself, because I don't think there's an easy way to record both wave output and microphone input at the same time. And what's worse, changing the recording device probably also changes the sound input for Skype, making it impossible to use.

IanD

Looks like an easy way is to use another pc and a cable out of my laptop and in to the other pc and record on there.
You would think there would be an easy way of doing it!

Thanks for the help anyway and if your into Media Center check out my blog for info on a Media Center Podcast that I am working on
http://spaces.msn.com/members/iandixon/

Ian

PeterF
Early Adopter

Creative soundcards are indeed perfectly able to record from multiple sources, thanks to that "What U Hear" option. Simply records everything that you hear coming out of the speakers.

Peter

Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

PeterF wrote:
Creative soundcards are indeed perfectly able to record from multiple sources, thanks to that "What U Hear" option. Simply records everything that you hear coming out of the speakers.

Which, unfortunately, still doesn't include the microphone.

Minh
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Sven Groot wrote:

Which, unfortunately, still doesn't include the microphone.

Just tested it. It works fine. On the Playback volumes, don't mute the microphone, and "What U Hear" will be able to record your mic' just fine.

PeterF
Early Adopter

Yep, you only need to wear headphones, else you'll end up with a feedback loop whistle.

Peter

IanD

I got it working, more details on my blog
http://spaces.msn.com/members/iandixon/Blog/cns!1pG33U4bh6jzLG6yE4ZZG2Bg!393.entry

Minh
WOOH! WOOH!

IanD wrote:
I got it working, more details on my blog
http://spaces.msn.com/members/iandixon/Blog/cns!1pG33U4bh6jzLG6yE4ZZG2Bg!393.entry

Aah, what I missed was that Skype will not work if you don't have your recording device as the mic'. Hey, Ian, do you mind publishing your GraphEdit graph. I'm a newbie.

androidi

Sven Groot wrote:
"What U Hear" is actually a Creative invention, the standard Windows mixer doesn't have it afaik.

It's certainly chip specific but 99.9% of the audio chips around support this. The real name is "Stereo Mix" and can be found in the standard windows volume control (not visible by default often). Creative just put it under another name so that its easier to understand (perhaps).

IanD

On my laptop the selecting the Stereo mix feeds back the audio to the skype call and it caused the origanal feedback problem

I posted a screen shot of the Graphedit settings on my blog
http://spaces.msn.com/members/iandixon/Blog/cns!1pG33U4bh6jzLG6yE4ZZG2Bg!393.entry

androidi

Guess thats possible, have not tried recording much this way.

Hopefully the audio routing model in LH will be a total overhaul instead of small evolution. Though I seriously doubt that based on what the screenshots around have shown so far.

Minh
WOOH! WOOH!

I found this link, which details recording Skypes conf calls. They have a proof of concept recording & PDF detailing their setup. It does involve a $40 virtual device driver, but hey, no remixing for you.

IanD

You can listen to how I got on with SKype recording on my new podcast
The Windows Media Center Show

I am still waiting for the domain name to be sorted, so for now here is the link

http://213.218.217.213/ian

Let my know what you think

kukla

In reply to IanD

#Mar 11th, 2005 @ 4:35 AM

for recording I use SkypeCap

CSMR

I do find audio routing and effects in Vista very inadequate. It would be nice to be able to plug in a mixer for example, instead of having to rely on manufacturer-specific methods where they exist. Or more simply, to be able to use directx or vst effects, for example to correct frequency response at a particular input or output.