[MacDV] Audio in port - mic input incompatibility??

Shirley Kehr shirleykat at cox.net
Mon Aug 15 20:03:24 PDT 2005


I just used my video cam as a microphone for an audio chat. I've also 
used the headset from that software that lets you speak and it tries to 
interpret what you said. (IBM Via Voice, I think) That was for voice 
into iMovie.

Shirley

On Aug 15, 2005, at 6:59 PM, Lanny Cotler wrote:

> Hello, Colleagues,
>
> My G4 desktop and my neighbor's G5 desktop does NOT have a built-in 
> mic. Okay. So I need an external mic in. On the back of both machines 
> is an Audio In Port. But what impedance does it like??!
>
> I bought a $20 Radio Shack multi-media headset. It works fine a (hush) 
> PC, but doesn't work on either of our Macs? Whazzup with that?
>
> As Freud asked of women, I ask of Apple: "What do you want?"
>
> Do any of you use a headset? I want to use it with iChat, Skype, and 
> to record a few sound bytes for various projects. Hi-fi in these cases 
> not needed.
>
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