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abb128 / LiveCaptions

Linux Desktop application that provides live captioning
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Capturing audio even when muted feature request #85

Open haytham-med opened 7 months ago

haytham-med commented 7 months ago

Hi Can the app capture audio when speakers are muted, like google chrome does, many thanks. Keep up the good work.

abb128 commented 7 months ago

I believe this should already work if you use PipeWire, are you using PulseAudio?

haytham-med commented 7 months ago

Using pipewire in fedora 38 I just tested, it works if I mute global volume not the video volume Is there a way to make it work if I muted video volume? thanks

abb128 commented 7 months ago

When you mute a video in Firefox, it skips even creating an audio output for it. Chromium seems to keep the output but keeps it silent. Other than creating a browser extension that extracts the audio directly, there's no way for the app to get the audio of a muted video