[mythtv-users] LiveTV audio missing

[Chris Wilkinson]

Chris wrote:
>>Hi there,
>>
>>Greg Woods wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 13:30 -0400, Chris wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>>Everything seems to work, except for audio in LiveTV. No sound
>>>>>is either heard or recorded in LiveTV.
>>>
>>>Does audio in scheduled recordings work, and do you have more than one
>>>capture card? I had a similar problem setting up my new MBE/FE machine,
>>
>>Audio in TV doesn't happen at all, in recordings or LiveTV. I've
>>only one card (a cheapo Pinnacle PCTV Stereo card), and the video
>>side of that is recording/viewing perfectly. All volumes are set
>>to max until I can figure out what is stopping the audio.
>>
>>I'm wondering if the audio encoder is not working...
> 
> Chris, I may have misunderstood you originally, thinking you were using 
> the conventional line-in to get sound.  That works for me with Suse 10 
> but I have never tried using aux-in.  I was under the impression that 
> Mythtv *wants* to use line-in and will try to "grab" that input.

I was under the impression that it didn't matter which input you put
audio into, so long as you selected that input as the active 'capture'
one, and made sure 'capture' was switched on and had some volume. Am
I wrong with that? Surely Myth would allow the user to select which
input to source audio from?

> You should be able to easily test your audio decoder by simply wiring it 
> directly to an amp and see if audio is present while you are recording.

Decoder? I think I meant encoder, ie software that encodes the audio
into MP3 - I'm trying to figure out if thats working. There *is*
audio from the TV-card entering the system in the 'Aux' channel. I
can verfiy that (both physically, and with TVTime), but somehow it
isn't being used by MythTV (or the transcoder is failing to do its
thing with the audio)

Kind regards,

Chris Wilkinson, Brisbane, Australia.