For the Video guys, Mark?

[Cyber Source]

I am using ALSA, and I am using the line-on on my sound card. Where
would one tell it to record sound from line-in?
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 21:54, Mark Musone wrote:

> You unless you have btaudio enabled (most likely not) you need to
> connect the audio out of your tv tuner card to  the line-in of your
> soundcard..
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> you can only watch tv with sound because the tv tuner card does a
> “pssthru” directly to your speakers…it doesn’t go to your CPU (and
> therefore it can’t be recorded)
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> in order to record something, you need to pipe sound to the line-in of
> your soundcard..
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> IF you already have it going to the line-in of your soundcard, you
> then need to make sure that the soundcard settings are setup to
> 
> RECORD from line-in. I’m not sure if your using alsa or oss for sound,
> but whatever you use to adjust the sound settings,
> 
> you should be able to use that to tell it to record from line-in
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> -Mark
> 
> (the video guy :&) )
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> From: owner-nflug at nflug.org [mailto:owner-nflug at nflug.org] On Behalf
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> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 7:58 PM
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> Subject: For the Video guys, Mark?
> 
>  
> 
> 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!!!
> 
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> Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> 
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