[mythtv-users] No Sound output jack on Tuner card

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Friday 23 January 2004 00:31, Paul wrote:
> I'm am trying to use a Prolink Pixelview tuner card (BT878) with
> MythTV. It only has COAX in (it's a half height card).  I assume I
> could try to use btaudio to get the sound over the PCI bridge, but
> the card also has sound out on the circuit board via a 4 wire
> connector (left/right + 2 grounds )like the output on a CD drive.
>
> Is there and easy way to get the sound if I plug the 4 wire cable
> from the tuner card to the second CD sound input on the PC mainboard?
>  I assume the tuner card hardware is feeding the sound to the 4 wire
> connection, so maybe there is a way to just tell myth to look to the
> second CD sound input on the mainboard??


Yes, this is really no different than using an external patch cable to 
your sound card's line-in.  The only difference is which mixer control 
you need to adjust.  Presumably your mixer has a "Aux CD" or "CD #2" 
control?

That said, if you can get btaudio working you're probably better off.

-JAC