[mythtv-users] hauppauge hvr-1800 very low volume

[Alen Edwards]

genius9976 at yahoo.com wrote:
>
> I initially set up this box just with a hauppauge pvr-500 (analog), 
> and got everything set up. I added a Hauppauge hvr-1800 and the 
> digital tuner seems to be working fine, except the audio on the 
> recordings is VERY quiet. I opened some files recorded off the analog 
> and digital tuners in VLC and Mplayer and the differences are 
> persistent across playback programs (though myth playback is similar 
> to the other programs' volumes under 20%, even with the volume maxed 
> out in myth... combining these two things, getting loud enough audio 
> watching my digital recordings is difficult). The problem exists with 
> liveTV and after recordings have been transcoded with the audio 
> transcoded to mp3. The difference is also apparent when playing the 
> files of the recordings from my windows laptop. Any ideas on how to 
> fix this disparity? I haven't found anything googling (probably since 
> it is a new card). Is there maybe some way to turn up the volume in 
> the drivers for the card?
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> -Scott
>
>
> My Mythbox (frontend and backend):
>
> Fedora Core 9 x86-64
>
> kernel version: 2.6.25.6-55.fc9.x86_64
>
> Myth Version: 0.21.20080304-1 17453M
>
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I am not familiar with this card but if this is digital, the card 
shouldn't have anything to do with the volume.  As far as I know, it is 
just passing the digital bitstream it gets from the TV station.  Perhaps 
the problem is that the analog card is too loud???

Allen
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