[mythtv-users] Cannot get sound working... please help

[Jarod Wilson]

On Saturday 02 April 2005 09:25, Ricardo Kleemann wrote:
> Thank you
>
> > You may be misunderstanding how the sound capture works. With BT8x8
> > cards (which I'm assuming you have) the sound is captured by
> > connecting the audio-out of the tuner card to the line-in of the sound
> > cards and ensuring that the device is able to capture/record that
> > sound in the mixer settings. If your's does that and it's working then
> > you're already home and hosed!
> >
> > The only time you can get away without a cable is if your BT8x8 card
> > supports btaudio. Not many do but there are btaudio HOWTOs if your's
> > does.
>
> So is this a problem only with BT8x cards?

And cx88 cards. And possibly saa7134 cards. Basically any card that isn't 
doing hardware encoding or dumping an mpeg2 transport stream to disk.

> If I purchase a PVR 150, I will 
> be able to capture without having to connect the cable?

Yes, though the 150 driver support isn't as good as the 250 driver support 
yet.

> Has anyone ever been able to get bt8x cards to capture with btaudio?

A few.

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