When I record (from webcam microphone) a video or audio file using Guvcview or OceanAudio, the file suffers from a popping noise. Is there a way to fix this? I’ve read online that it’s a PulseAudio/KDE incompatibility regarding the 48,000/41,000 Hz setting, but I’m not sure if that’s the cause.
Thanks for your attention.
Regards
perhaps post some info about the sound card and drivers in use
inxi -Aaz
If you think this is the issue test it, just make sure you take note of what you change and why you are changing it. Backup the files before changing things and if it isn’t what you expect just put those backups in and re-think things
Thanks thefrog 
here:
[bonheur@Endeavour-HP-Z1-G8 ~]$ inxi -Aaz
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 500 Series Family HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_avs,snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl
bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:43c8 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: NVIDIA GA106 High Definition Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16
link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:228e
class-ID: 0403
Device-3: Alpha Imaging USB CAMERA driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-8:4
chip-ID: 114d:8437 class-ID: 0102
API: ALSA v: k6.18.40-2-lts status: kernel-api
tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: sndiod v: N/A status: off tools: aucat,midicat,sndioctl
Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.6.8 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
4: pw-jack type: plugin tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
[bonheur@Endeavour-HP-Z1-G8 ~]$
What desktiop enviroment are you usig?
I assumed KDE
does this popping noise happen on speaker / headphone or both?
Yer I thought ask and wait for them to answer before offering options as KDE should be very easy fix
KDE and only webcam microphone, I don’t have headphone
(I use the default configuration so I think it’s pipewire in use, not pulseaudio, I don’t know how to check)