As stated previously, it appears that Freevo is setting the IGAIN mixer pot to 0, 
which forces no sound to be recorded, even though you can hear the LINE IN sound over 
the speakers.  IIRC, my Soundblaster went away from standard and allowed the IGAIN to 
be set to 0 and still record off the LINE-IN but this is highly abnormal from 
everything I've been reading.

Aside from the previously mentioned times Freevo resets these values, I have also 
determined that Freevo eroneously sets Inputs and IGAIN to 0 when viewing "Recorded TV 
Shows".   

I say Erroneously because there is no reason I can think of that I should not be able 
to watch a show while recording another (or even the same one).  Mencoder and Mplayer 
seem to be able to record and play the same stream at the same time.  That is where 
Tivo allows people to watch a TV show and skip the commercials, the users just start 
watching a little later and FF through unwanted video (like Commercials).

Do we have to include what Channels do what in the setup?  PCM and Master are simple 
enough to determine.  Which input to choose from is another story, however.  Does 
Freevo view the IGAIN as an INPUT or an OUTPUT or some other unknown, that it turns it 
off completely at every Freevo controlled Mixer-change?

Thanks again for the hard work!  I know this is a hurdle, but one which I look forward 
to seeing how it is resolved.

As a workaround, perhaps we can add in a mixer command prior to the mencoder line?  
That will not, however, alter the behavior of watching recorded stuff.

Another tack, what was that setting to NOT allow Freevo to change the Mixer?  This 
will work for everything but directly watching TV.  If we could configure Freevo to 
only turn on and off what on KMIX is the "Green Light" (which allows the LINE-IN to 
output directly to the speakers) but not adjust the settings?

Thanks!

Matt

On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 18:52:01 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Message: 10
> Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 21:05:06 -0500
> From: Matthew Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Organization: Enterprise Information Systems
> Subject: [Freevo-users] Re: Freevo-users digest, Vol 1 #954 - 9 msgs
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> Intel 8x0 AC 97 chipset
> ALSA on SuSE 8.2
> Part of the question is how the mixer is handled.  I know that when Freevo is not 
> running there is no sound coming in from the TV in, but when I watch TV through 
> Freevo there is sound.  When I hit escape the sound goes away.  Freevo appears to be 
> setting the mixer level for watching.  Does it not also set it for recording as 
> well?  If so, how is this done and how might it be malfunctioning?
> 
> 
> On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 05:22:11 -0800
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> > there is not enough information to answer this.
> > 
> > what soundcard chipset is used?  can you record audio fine? have you set
> > your mixer settings and capture device correctly? are you using OSS or ALSA?
> > what version of the linux kernel are you running? is the sound driver loaded
> > as a module or compiled in the kernel?
> > 
> > also be sure to do a google search without the word freevo as this is not a
> > freevo problem but a linux sound configuration problem.
> 
> -- 
> Matthew Carpenter 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]                          http://www.eisgr.com/
> 
> Enterprise Information Systems
> * Network Server Appliances
> * Network Consulting, Integration & Support
> * Web Integration and E-Business
> 


-- 
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Enterprise Information Systems
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* Web Integration and E-Business



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