[mythtv-users] Multiple Plextor Audio Solution ???

[Brian Wood]

On Feb 11, 2006, at 8:19 PM, Jesse Guardiani wrote:

> On Saturday 11 February 2006 9:52 pm, Nathan Lutchansky wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> The downside to this that I can think of is that you have some
>> additional load on your processor to do the audio encoding.  Is there
>> some other problem you've run into?
>>
>>> My mobo's integrated AC97 has only 1 PCM input, as I would assume is
>>> true of most such devices.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know of a solution which would provide multiple PCM
>>> inputs?
>>
>> Maybe I just don't understand what you're trying to do, but why can't
>> you use the audio inputs on the ConvertX?  -Nathan
>
> Someone made a comment earlier that Plextor units require a working  
> sound
> card (or at least a working ALSA/OSS system). I think he's asking  
> if you
> can record from multiple Plextor units without having multiple  
> logical mixer
> devices on the sound card.

Quite correct.

>
> No, you don't have to plug the Plextor units into a sound card  
> directly.
> But yes, you need ALSA/OSS for them to work. I'm not sure if there are
> any issues with multiple units on the same machine or not.
>

AFAIK ALSA wants a "device" to work with. I guess what I'm looking  
for is a "virtual" soundcard that ALSA would recognize.