I see others have asked about microphones on this forum. I suspect something is up with this version of Mint.
Just as a summary
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pavumeter --record
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alsamixer -c 0
Is this doomed? Not going to work? I'm beginning to suspect so. Too bad, the video works, the speaker work. Other things are fine. I will wait a day or 2 and see if anyone can offer advice. Then will have to go on to another Linux distro.
Here's what aplay -L produces
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default
pulse
Playback/recording through the PulseAudio sound server
front:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC269 Analog
Front speakers
surround40:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC269 Analog
4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC269 Analog
4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC269 Analog
5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC269 Analog
5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC269 Analog
7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
dmix:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC269 Analog
Direct sample mixing device
dsnoop:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC269 Analog
Direct sample snooping device
hw:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC269 Analog
Direct hardware device without any conversions
plughw:CARD=Intel,DEV=0
HDA Intel, ALC269 Analog
Hardware device with all software conversions