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vtomj
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 Posted: Mon Mar 17, 2003 2:48 pm Post subject: vcr problem - have video but no sound |
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I have my Pinnacle PCTV Pro card working perfectly in xawtv and tvtime so I decided to try and record tv using vcr. After creating a .vcrrc from my .xawtv file I was able to record video but no sound. The picture is also flipped but that is fixable in mplayer. I tried hooking up the tvcard with both the external line in of my sound blaster and the internal connection. Both work as far as watching tv so I am leaving it on internal. I did unmute and select both line in's when I tried them but never got sound on either one. I also killed esd and made sure it did not start as one web site I read implied that it might cause trouble. When running vcr I can hear the sound of the tv card but when I open mplayer there is no sound. I also see in vcr's output that it claims to be encoding the sound using lame. Any ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Tom |
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kwiqsilver
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| Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2003 6:52 pm Post subject: |
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I have the same two problems.
From searching the forums, I get the idea you need to compile and load the btaudio driver (it's near the top of the sound section in the kernel menu) to allow the card to record sound. It might even allow you to watch TV without the pass thru cable (I don't like using a pass thru).
To fix the flipped video, you either need the patch that somebody on this board wrote (search for "vcr flip patch"), or to use a different recorder. The guy who wrote the vcr patch switched to mencoder (part of the mplayer package), and from what I've read here, it's a better choice. Apparently vcr hasn't been maintained since 2001.
I just did the kernel rebuild and am currently building mplayer, and I'll try them out when I get home from work tonight.
If I can get it working, I'll retire my Sony VCR. |
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vtomj
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| Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2003 9:09 pm Post subject: managed to get sound but still flipped |
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I managed to fix the sound issue. I do have to use the pass through cable though.
Here is my .vcrrc file:
| Code: | [defaults]
freqtab = us-cable
norm = ntsc
source = Television
quality = 100
keyframes = 15
codex = DivX ;-) low-motion
verbose = 1
framerate = 30
audiomode = mono
audiobitrate = 64
resolution = 384x288
init-sound = /dev/mixer:Line:70
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The init-sound setting is what did it for me. I tried to use the internal connections from the video capture card to the sound card but I could not get it to capture from that as it would not take Aux instead of Line. I have been trying to use mencoder but I am getting a wierd error that I do not have a v4l driver but that seems wrong as i am capturing video and audio (even though it is flipped). Thanks for the input on the patch I will look for it. |
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villiam
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| Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2003 12:02 am Post subject: mencoder and v4l |
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I too was getting the same error when trying to run mencoder. In my case it was because I had mplayer installed before adding video 4 linux support into my kernel.
I have just emerged mplayer again (using 0.90_rc4) and now both mplayer and mencoder are able to grab from my tv tuner card.
Have you tried emerging mplayer since configuring video 4 linux? |
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