For my saa7134, I use the aumix to set the volume & record on the video input to access the sound internally (don't know how to do this from a command line). For external sound, I use line 2: aumix -d /dev/mixer1 -2R -299
kernel: saa7134[0]/video: DCSDT: found PAL
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