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Recording from VLC

Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2022 11:49 pm
by colehill
We have a fairly complicated sequence of audio clips, taken from longer sections of music tracks for use in our next show.
One of the cast has requested a CD to rehearse to - but he really only wants the few seconds of each track that are actually output by SCS, rather than the entire tracks.

I can't find a way of recording the output from SCS. I have tried VLC and I have tried Audacity but I am just not getting anything useful output to file. What I am trying to do is to generate a single MP3 of the 23 clips - as output in the show timing - with the appropriate cuts and fades and so on. I could then burn that to a CD for my colleague to practice to.

Any ideas?

I am using Windows 10 on a PC. I have no problem capturing from YouTube or an audio or video file - what I need is to be able to capture the SCS output.

Re: Recording from VLC

Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2022 1:25 am
by Gubbio67
Hi I use reaper to record the tracks from SCS... I send the sound from SCS to virtual cable (software from vb-audio) and in the input of reaper I set again virtual cable.

So what's going out from SCS enters in reaper

Re: Recording from VLC

Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2022 1:03 pm
by BJB
Hello,
For what its worth, just did a quick test and had no trouble recording SCS audio output through Audacity on my desktop running W10.
In SCS, Audio Output device set to - Speakers (Realtek(R) Audio)
In Audacity, Audio Host set to - Windows WASAPI; Recording Device set to - Speakers (Realtek(R) Audio) (loopback)
Brendan

Re: Recording from VLC

Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2022 9:07 am
by colehill
Thanks for this. I just got a nasty feedback noise when I tried it from Audacity using the default sound outputs but I did manage to get it to work using the Virtual Cable connector. The problem with that is that I can't actually hear it - but I can capture it using VLC.

Re: Recording from VLC

Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2022 12:27 am
by d_korman
FYI: running SCS in Windows 10 on a VirtualBox VM running under Ubuntu, and with Audacity running natively on Ubuntu, I can record the output from SCS just fine.

I've found several occasions where this combination allows me to do things that are much harder/nigh-on impossible to do with a single Windows machine.