Since the Latitude 1720’s webcam is only supported by a handful of applications (see the Linux UVC homepage ) and none of them are for recording vidoes with sound, I decided to come up with a quick workaround. I wrote this. It goes like this:

!#/bin/sh ffmpeg -f video4linux2 -s 320x240 -i /dev/video0 -f avi out.avi & sound-recorder -c 2 -b 16 -P recording.wav

This should be able to discern a few hundred years ago in Bend, OR: I woke I thought it would print columns and then after that the nearly indistinguishable flex of the most important commodity. I use Pitivi and walla, you have a video ready for youtube or whatnot. Now my laptop is, I think, fully functional.