[mythtv-users] Re:trying to use 2 inputs on same card (not si multaneously :-)

[Shirley, Mark R]

Perhaps there's a connector on the circuit board for this?  My WinTv has one
on the
wafer for line in.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ray Olszewski [mailto:ray at comarre.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 2:14 PM
> To: mythtv-users at snowman.net
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Re:trying to use 2 inputs on same 
> card (not
> simultaneously :-)
> 
> 
> At 11:00 AM 7/14/2003 -0600, Alexander P. Petkov wrote:
> >=============
> >I have 2 capture cards that do not have a line in, but have composite
> >video in.
> >
> >ATI TV Wonder VE
> >Modular Tech MM201
> >
> >There are plenty more examples on the bttv gallery page.
> >=============
> >
> >They may not be labeled "line-in", but your card definitely has audio
> >input(s). Otherwise, what's the point of having composite video in?
> 
> Well ... "definitely" displays more confidence than I had 
> when I wrote. In 
> principle, it is perfectly *possible* for the tuner card to 
> lack line-in, 
> in the expectation that a user will understand (or be instructed) to 
> connect the audio directly to the sound card. It was just my 
> experience 
> that none of them does, as I said in my prior reply. Zaheer's 
> reply was to 
> the point, as it identified two cards I've never myself used.
> 
> So after I saw his posting, I took a moment to look up the 
> "ATI TV Wonder 
> VE", and it certainly *appears* in photos to lack any audio 
> input. (Google 
> doesn't match anything for "Modular Tech MM201" and I don't 
> know the URL fo 
> the "bttv gallery page", so I can't say about those parts of 
> his message.)
> 
> This would be useful information to add to the Capture-Card 
> FAQ, since it 
> will increasingly matter as more of us start using digital-cable or 
> -satellite boxes. So I'd welcome anyone else with a card that 
> lacks audio 
> in, but otherwise works with Myth, to identify it.
> 
> >On
> >my card (orig. series Avermedia from '98) these audio inputs are for
> >the L&R audio channels and are RCA plugs (use composite audio
> >cables).
> 
> 
> 
> 
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