New Game Recording Beta does not capture microphone

[LarveyOfficial]

Your system information

• Steam client version (build number or date): 1719967667
• Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): EndeavourOS, KDE Wayland 6.1.2
• Opted into Steam client beta?: Yes
• Have you checked for system updates?: Yes
• Steam Logs: Not sure if needed, but can generate if required.
• GPU: AMD 7900 GRE

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

The new beta game recording feature does not capture my microphone, my microphone is properly configured in settings in the voice section, but actual clips do not contain my voice. The game recording does capture discord and game audio, just not my microphone.

Example clip (I am speaking during this): https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/assets/39219859/7dbc0af5-68a5-4a8f-94e4-c3870707d4e7

Steps for reproducing this issue:

1. Start game recording
2. Listen to game recording and realize my voice isn't captured

[LarveyOfficial]

It seems this was marked as a feature request, does that mean it is currently intended behavior for the default microphone to not be recorded in the Game Recordings?

[kisak-valve]

Hello @LarveyOfficial, I added the Feature Request label because I didn't see a mention of microphone capture in the initial set of features described at https://store.steampowered.com/gamerecording.

In general, audio frameworks handle monitoring audio playback from applications and capture devices like a microphone separately and this is functionally a request to wire up the latter.

[LarveyOfficial]

Hello @kisak-valve, thank you for the quick response, I assumed that microphone capture was intended to be a feature due to the Windows client having the option for microphone capture. Please let me know if I am mistaken or not.

[Managor]

I'll chime in that I would like to see this implemented in the future. Voice chats are very one-sided in the recordings.