[mythtv-users] Help with 2nd source on S-Video

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Monday 08 December 2003 22:19, Gregorio Gervasio, Jr. wrote:
> >>>>> Joseph A Caputo writes:
>
> j> Okay, what am I doing wrong?
> j> I have a WinTV 401 dbx card that I've been using with Myth for
> about a j> year now with no problems.  This weekend I decided to
> finally hook up j> my VCR on the S-Video input so I could import some
> videotapes.  I split j> my VCR output & piped the video to the
> WInTV's S-Video-in and the audio j> to the WinTV's Line-In.  I'm
> using btaudio so I have no other patch j> cables or anything.  I set
> up a new video source with 1 channel and j> bound it to my S-Video
> input.  So far, so good.
>
> j> Now, when watching LiveTV, I press 'C' and switch to the VCR
> input.  I j> get video, but no sound!  I'm going to double-check my
> cabling tonight j> when I get home, but is there anything else I
> should be aware of?  This j> issue has come up before, see:
>
> j> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/perl/mailarc/gforum.cgi?post=75368
>
> j> but I didn't see a resolution.
>
>
>         I did this once with the same card and I think I was able to
> get audio, but it was from the tuner input.  I ended up just sending
> the VCR audio directly to my regular sound card input and temporarily
> switching MythTV's sound capture device.

Hmmm... maybe I'll just wait for my M-179's to arrive and hook the VCR 
up to one of them.

-JAC