On 31 May 2003, Jeremy Malcolm wrote: > I have several problems I was hoping someone could help me with. > > I have a saa7134-based (Flyvideo 2000) TV tuner card and am using > saa7134 module version is 0.2.7. The card sound output is connected to > my sound card's CD audio input on the PCB, so under Windows I get sound > through the CD channel. Under Linux though, the sound is basically > inaudible, even when it and the master volume are at 100%. When I turn > my amplifier up to top volume, I can barely hear sound through the > static. > Are you sure your tuner setting is correct? The default uses the LG "newer TAPC" model. You can override with the insmod option 'card=3 tuner=XX' > As a nasty workaround for this problem, I have connected a VCR up to the > Aux input on my TV tuner card (rather than using the card's own tuner) > and connected the VCR's sound output to my sound card's "line in" > socket, and this works. However, even here I have a problem, when > trying to record video with sound. xawtv streamer records it choppy, > high-pitched and unintelligible. (The video seems to be at the right > speed, though.) > > With other apps such as mencoder I can't figure out how (if it is even > possible) to specify what sound input to use for the recording (like I > can with xawtv's "mixer" option), so it just records silence. > Mencoder doesn't take audio from the sound card AFAIK (might be able to force it to get audio input from /dev/dsp, but it'll be out of sync). You'll have to use another recorder. nvrec works. > As a final problem, unrelated to sound, xawtv won't tune to most of my > channels (2, 7, 9 and 10 - which are our main free-to-air stations in > Australia), even though I have the Australian frequency setting and PAL > set in xawtv. Of course, the VCR work-around fixes this, but it > shouldn't be a problem because Windows can tune to these stations fine. > Probably a tuner/card selection issue. (See first issue). You probably need to specify the card type manually since earlier FV2K can't be autodetected. T.C. ---- Wan Tat Chee (Lecturer) School of Computer Science, Univ. Science Malaysia, 11800 Minden, Penang, Malaysia. Rm.625 Ofc Ph: +604 653-3888 x 3617 NRG Lab Admin: +604 659-4757 Rm.601-E Ofc Ph: +604 653-4396 Internet: tcwan@xxxxxxxxx Web: http://nrg.cs.usm.my/~tcwan GPG Key : http://nrg.cs.usm.my/~tcwan/tcw_gpg-20030322.asc F'print : DCF2 B9B2 FA4D 1208 AD59 14CA 9A8F F54D B2C4 63C7
