Carl Weidling wrote: > I have an abit av8 MB running slackware 10.1 (just build a > new 2.6.18 kernel for it). I am using the built-in > VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio > controller. > > All I am trying to do is get stuff from my VCR onto the computer > using mencoder (part of the MPlayer suite) and my TV capture > card. Now I also built Linux From Scratch on a different partition, > using the old OSS sound system, and that works just find. I use > the ancient xmix program to select CD as my input and I record > sound and video with mencoder. So I guess the TV card is connected to the CD input on your motherboard? > I can even play back the files I capture under slackware using > mplayer or xine. But, when I capture videos under slackware with > alsa, I get no sound. I used: > amixer set CD capture, and GUIs like kmix and alsamixer to try > to select CD input for sound. When I run alsamixer it shows > CD as capture (only after using the amixer command, I haven´t > figured out how to actually switch on capture in alsamixer), Press Space when the input is selected. > but it always shows volume as zero. When I use kmix it shows CD > as input with a high volume, but when I go to switches it only gives > me input1 and input2 as input source select. Why can it not be > as simple as with xmix and oss? An AC'97 codec has more controls than OSS is aware of. Please show the output of "amixer contents". Regards, Clemens ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
