I want to record sounds from videos, such as dialogue from movies that are playing on my computer. I have done this with Sound Forge in the past, and today I downloaded Sound Forge 17. I have been trying the different solutions that were recommended from the previous times this question was posed, for earlier versions, and none of them are working. I have Windows 11, and I'm on a HP Pavilion laptop. Some of the options described in these other answers are not available. For instance, one recommendation suggested Options>Preferences>Audio>Audio device type/recorder. That is not what's shown on SF 17 for those options. The meters on the SF 17 screen show no sound coming in.
I have been working on this for about four hours now. Any help would be appreciated.