Tony Sauri wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:26, john q public wrote:
>
>> I have been poring over all sorts of "docs" trying to find where the
>> output for sound on my TV card
>> is under ALSA.
>>
>
> Been there done that!!!!
>
> So my guess is that you just need to configure your sound card controls
> correctly.
>
> The ATI web site indicates that you TV card sound output is looped to the
> sound card Line-In socket.
>
> By default I believe that the Line In input will be directed to the speakers
> but not to the capture control - thus you can hear the TV audio when you
> watch xawtv but it is not captured when you attempt to capture the video and
> audio to file.
>
> All you need to do is set the alsamixer correctly.
>
> To make things easy for myself when I get the mixer setup correctly for any
> application I then create an alsa config file for that application
> alsactl -f ~/.alsa.skype.cfg store
>
> sudo /usr/sbin/alsactl -f ~/.alsa.skype.cfg store
>
> and then restore that config when I want to start that application.
> sudo /usr/sbin/alsactl -f ~/.alsa.skype.cfg restore
>
> Here is a fragment of one of my alsa config files that captures the mic and
> Aux sockets on my sound card:
>
> control.24 {
> comment.access 'read write'
> comment.type ENUMERATED
> comment.count 2
> comment.item.0 Mic
> comment.item.1 CD
> comment.item.2 Video
> comment.item.3 Aux
> comment.item.4 Line
> comment.item.5 Mix
> comment.item.6 'Mix Mono'
> comment.item.7 Phone
> iface MIXER
> name 'Capture Source'
> value.0 Mic
> value.1 Aux
> }
>
> man alsactl is your friend
>
>
>> ATI TV Wonder PRO PCI card using the audio out jack from the card (which
>> has been fine 4 xawtv)
>> Ive heard there is a way to acces the sound directly using the
>> cx88_alsa driver but can't figure it out
>>
>
>
>
>> BTW I don't care if it turns out that this card does not have an on
>> board mpeg2 encoder I don't mind
>> doing that with software.
>>
> BTW I do not see any indication on the ATI site that your card does mpeg2
> encoding.
>
>> I just need to get the audio.
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>
> HTH
> Tony
>
Well actually the problem is cx88_alsa never REALLY acts like the card
is there at all
0 [Live ]: EMU10K1 - SBLive! Value [CT4780]
SBLive! Value [CT4780] (rev.5, serial:0x80221102)
at 0xdf8
0, irq 21
1 [Dummy ]: Dummy - Dummy
Dummy 1
but in /etc/modprobe.conf I have:
options snd-emu10k1 index=0
options cx88-alsa index=1
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