For the Video guys, Mark?

[Cyber Source]

I'm using ALSA. How is it that it can capture and then output to my
video card and monitor but can't achieve this with the sound? 
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 21:42, Dave Andruczyk wrote:

> Most (but not all) TV cards are video only and just PASS THROUGH the sound
> through the soundcards line in (or CD in ports via a wire jumper) to get audio,
>  in this case you would need to be recording from the soundcard (/dev/dsp for
> OSS, or /dev/snd/pcmC??? for ALSA) while grabbing frames.  Some better TV cards
> do have audio record ability with the btaudio OSS driver. (I donno if there is
> a comparable ALSA driver..)
> 
> For DVD's you might look into dvdauthor..  I've personally never used it as I
> don't have a DVD burner..
> 
> You might try the mpegtools package 
> --- Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:
> > Ok, I have one for the video guys. I have been getting ALOT of requests
> > for DVD and AVI's for Linux, that is people want to use there Linux
> > boxes to create DVD's, AVI's, etc. Just to keep it simple for now, I
> > would like to limit my question to this,
> > I have installed an AverTV TV Tuner Card, works great! I have all the
> > config's the way I think they should be but I probably have something
> > wrong due to the lack of info in the man page (xawtvrc). Anywho, my
> > problem is this, I have never been able to create an avi file with the
> > xawtv program until now, actually works great with very nice capture,
> > however, I cannot for the life of me get the sound to get recorded. The
> > sound works great using the TV part of it. I will include a copy of my
> > ~/.xawtv file below.
> >  Also, one thing of note, could be important or at least a clue, I have
> > to start xawtv with "xawtv -c /dev/video0" instead of just with "xawtv".
> > I read the man page and it says that /dev/video0 is the default anyway,
> > so I really don't see why I need to specify the whole thing with the -c
> > option.
> > Here is an excerpt from the man page on xawtv (notice how it says that
> > Xvideo support would be lost, is that why my sound isn't being
> > recorded?)
> > ‐c, ‐device device
> >               set video4linux device (default is  /dev/video0).   This 
> > option
> >               also disables Xvideo support.
> >               Resource: xawtv.device (string).
> > Here is the ~/.xawtv file I am using
> > 
> > [global]
> > freqtab = us-cable
> > keypad-ntsc = on
> > fullscreen = 1024 x 768
> > input = Television
> > mixer = line
> > mov-driver = avi
> > mov-video = rgb24
> > mov-audio = stereo
> > 
> > [defaults]
> > norm = ntsc
> > audio = stereo
> > capture = grabdisplay
> > 
> > Thanks in advance to anyone who can help!!!
> > -- 
> > Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com>
> > 
> 
> =====
> Dave J. Andruczyk
> 
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-- 
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