Bill Eldridge wrote: > > > > Does anyone know of a V4L/V4L2 supported > > > TV card that I can get internal audio off > > > the card without fail? I'd like not to use > > > an external sound card for this, but it > > > seems like most (all?) cards just switch > > > the audio to an output jack that you're > > > suppoed to redirect to a soundcard. > > > > > > Since some of my boxes have only one > > > PCI slot, an additional soundcard isn't > > > possible. > > > > You can connect "audio out" of your TV card > > directly to (active) speakers. > > I want the audio accessible as a device > so I can point ffmpeg or other encoders > to the video & audio input, and then I > can record .vob's or stream or whatever. > > To date, I have to choose my soundcard with: > > ffmpeg -ad /dev/dsp2 ... > > instead of being able to grab audio > from the v4l device. All Bt878 have an audio section and can send audio over PCI DMA. Not all card manufacturers have wired this properly. See "bttv-0.7.90/README.btaudio". So your question is: Which card works well with the "btaudio" driver?
