[mythtv-users] PVR-350 sound loop into soundcard

[David Ellis]

I"m pretty sure the problem is your mixer.

Use alsamixer or kmixer to set your capture device to the line-in.

David
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Reith" <reith at racores.com>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 9:25 AM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 sound loop into soundcard


> At 09:19 AM 10/28/2005, you wrote:
>>Hey I have an audio question - with all the hundreds of cables i have 
>>lying
>>around here, I haven't found one yet that will take the PVR-350 TV out L/R
>>RCA audio and allow me to feed them back into my sound card's 'Line In'.
>>
>>The cable that i thought for sure would work is a spare computer
>>speaker cable
>>for old stereo sound cards that just have L/R.  its a small jack on one 
>>end
>>that plugs into the speaker plug on the soundcard, with two RCA's on the
>>other end to plug into the L/R speaker.  I figured if it works to go 'out' 
>>it
>>would also work to come back in??
>>
>>I have a SB Audigy sound card, and in alsamixer, turned "Line" in up to 
>>max,
>>"Mic" in (just in case) up to max , (and actually every other control 
>>there
>>just to be sure) and i still don't get any sound coming out of my computer
>>speakers.
>>
>>The only thing I can think of, is maybe the line is is mono and the stereo
>>jack isn't making connections in the right place?  I'm pretty sure its 
>>stereo
>>though, so....
>>
>>has anyone else had any luck feeding the sound from the 350 TV out back 
>>into
>>their sound card?
>>
>>(i know that there's sound coming out, because i can plug the RCA jacks
>>directly into the back of my TV and the sound works fine... but I'd really
>>prefer the sound to go through the computer speakers so the volume can be
>>controlled with myth (not to mention, my computer speakers blow the TV
>>speakers away any day).
>>
>>Thanks,
>>   James
>
> I got a Y cable at Radio Shack for about $7 and it worked fine. Check
> your settings on the sound side and make sure you don't have
> something muted. That seems to be the most likely problem
>
>
>
>


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