[mythtv-users] PVR-350 sound loop into soundcard

[Jim Reith]

At 09:19 AM 10/28/2005, you wrote:
>Hey I have an audio question - with all the hundreds of cables i have lying
>around here, I haven't found one yet that will take the PVR-350 TV out L/R
>RCA audio and allow me to feed them back into my sound card's 'Line In'.
>
>The cable that i thought for sure would work is a spare computer
>speaker cable
>for old stereo sound cards that just have L/R.  its a small jack on one end
>that plugs into the speaker plug on the soundcard, with two RCA's on the
>other end to plug into the L/R speaker.  I figured if it works to go 'out' it
>would also work to come back in??
>
>I have a SB Audigy sound card, and in alsamixer, turned "Line" in up to max,
>"Mic" in (just in case) up to max , (and actually every other control there
>just to be sure) and i still don't get any sound coming out of my computer
>speakers.
>
>The only thing I can think of, is maybe the line is is mono and the stereo
>jack isn't making connections in the right place?  I'm pretty sure its stereo
>though, so....
>
>has anyone else had any luck feeding the sound from the 350 TV out back into
>their sound card?
>
>(i know that there's sound coming out, because i can plug the RCA jacks
>directly into the back of my TV and the sound works fine... but I'd really
>prefer the sound to go through the computer speakers so the volume can be
>controlled with myth (not to mention, my computer speakers blow the TV
>speakers away any day).
>
>Thanks,
>   James

I got a Y cable at Radio Shack for about $7 and it worked fine. Check
your settings on the sound side and make sure you don't have
something muted. That seems to be the most likely problem