Clemens Ladish replying to my previous post asked if arecord works.
Answer: Yes. I hooked up the CD drives audio output to the CD input on the TV capture card, which just passes it thru, and used KDE's CD playing utility KsCD to play a CD, and arecord captured the sound stream (I noticed some distortion, probably takes a little tweaking, but at least it wasn't dead silence.)
Looking at a dump of amixer contents that I posted:
> numid=39,iface=MIXER,name='Input Source Select'
> ; Item #0 'Input1'
> ; Item #1 'Input2'
> : values=0
> numid=40,iface=MIXER,name='Input Source Select',index=1
> ; Item #0 'Input1'
> ; Item #1 'Input2'
> : values=0
He suggested I try all four combinations. Using alsamixer I flipped the two "Input So" columns between 'Input1' and 'Input2' (I suppose this is what he meant), between the 4 possible combinations, in the output of amixer contents this was reflected in changes in lines 141 and 146 between "values=0" and "values=1". None of it made any difference in mencoder though, no audio was captured.
I would suppose that there was bug in mencoder that it didn't properly interface to alsa's API, but if that were true I think it would be all over the internet.
It's very frustrating. The only reason I keep that linux from scratch partition on my disk is to capture videos. I've ordered the new Slackware, version 11. (I'd bittorrent it except I don't like to keep my computer on all the time.) When it arrives I'll see if it makes any difference.
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