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

James Grant topace at lightbox.org
Fri Oct 28 10:33:39 EDT 2005


Nothing is muted, and under [capture] everything is turned up as well... still 
nothing...  the alsamixer docs say pressing space bar on a channel will set 
it to the active channel, but space seems to do nothing here :(

 James



On Friday 28 October 2005 9:30 am, David Ellis wrote:
> I"m pretty sure the problem is your mixer.
>
> Use alsamixer or kmixer to set your capture device to the line-in.
>
> David
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Reith" <reith at racores.com>
> To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 9:25 AM
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 sound loop into soundcard
>
> > 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
>
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James Grant
Lightbox Technologies Inc.
http://www.lightbox.org
613-294-3670

-- 
James Grant
Lightbox Technologies Inc.
http://www.lightbox.org
613-294-3670


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