For the Video guys, Mark?

[Dave Andruczyk]

run "alsamixer" from a terminal window (or console),  use the arrows to move to
"Line in" and hit the spacebar to toggle the record flag..


--- Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:
> 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..
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > 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)
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > in order to record something, you need to pipe sound to the line-in of
> > your soundcard..
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > 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
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > -Mark
> > 
> > (the video guy :&) )
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-nflug at nflug.org [mailto:owner-nflug at nflug.org] On Behalf
> > Of Cyber Source
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 7:58 PM
> > To: nflug at nflug.org
> > 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!!!
> > 
> > -- 
> > Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> 
> > 
> > 
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> 

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Dave J. Andruczyk

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