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For the longest time I was so focused on getting to use an android as a "good" mic for a windows PC. Scrcpy was a very hot contender, but I never got it to wor

by sandos 4mo ago

For the longest time I was so focused on getting to use an android as a "good" mic for a windows PC. Scrcpy was a very hot contender, but I never got it to work well enough with low enough latency. If you feel you should try this, just buy an audio interface and a cheap XLR mic.

IshKebab 4mo ago
> just buy an audio interface and a cheap XLR mic. Don't do that. There are plenty of good USB microphones that don't need you to faff around with shitty XLR.
- jakeway 4mo ago
  shitty XLR? what's wrong with XLR?
Imustaskforhelp 4mo ago
I had done this in the covid lockdown days as my school was going to online classes. Droidcam and wo-mic are some good options in this space. Droidcam if you need both a webcam and mic. Wo-mic used to work on lower android versions. I remember plugging Droidcam to my win 7 (1gb-ram) crt tv computer and then taking an really old mostly junk phone outside and my parents were watching the monitor. It was really awesome :p Though after an year, I ended up buying a webcam because that unused phone used to get quite heated and was really a finnicky setup to do everyday but It was a very fun experiment that I did for quite many months. It's been a few years since covid now and I have a mac laptop now but on my desktop I still don't have webcam, and so I also use https://obs.ninja https://obs.ninja sometimes now So TLDR if someone really wishes to do this: Droidcam,wo-mic,(https://obs.ninja https://obs.ninja + OBS live camera option) I think its a good way to make use of old phones that you might not be using but imo battery life and its consumption seems to be the biggest hurdle imho
richardboegli 4mo ago
I used WO mic for this purpose and it worked quite well https://wolicheng.com/womic/download.html https://wolicheng.com/womic/download.html

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For the longest time I was so focused on getting to use an android as a "good" mic for a windows PC. Scrcpy was a very hot contender, but I never got it to wor

by sandos 4mo ago

IshKebab 4mo ago
> just buy an audio interface and a cheap XLR mic. Don't do that. There are plenty of good USB microphones that don't need you to faff around with shitty XLR.
- jakeway 4mo ago
  shitty XLR? what's wrong with XLR?
Imustaskforhelp 4mo ago
I had done this in the covid lockdown days as my school was going to online classes. Droidcam and wo-mic are some good options in this space. Droidcam if you need both a webcam and mic. Wo-mic used to work on lower android versions. I remember plugging Droidcam to my win 7 (1gb-ram) crt tv computer and then taking an really old mostly junk phone outside and my parents were watching the monitor. It was really awesome :p Though after an year, I ended up buying a webcam because that unused phone used to get quite heated and was really a finnicky setup to do everyday but It was a very fun experiment that I did for quite many months. It's been a few years since covid now and I have a mac laptop now but on my desktop I still don't have webcam, and so I also use https://obs.ninja https://obs.ninja sometimes now So TLDR if someone really wishes to do this: Droidcam,wo-mic,(https://obs.ninja https://obs.ninja + OBS live camera option) I think its a good way to make use of old phones that you might not be using but imo battery life and its consumption seems to be the biggest hurdle imho
richardboegli 4mo ago
I used WO mic for this purpose and it worked quite well https://wolicheng.com/womic/download.html https://wolicheng.com/womic/download.html