At 05:49 PM 4/18/2006, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >John, > >The mike is a monaural device. So no matter how you cable it, you only >can capture one channel. > >The volume setting of the line device is only half of the story. You >also need to set capture on, and choose a capture level as well. Not >sure of aumix, but amixer lets you do that. You could actually record >the line device with its playback gain set to zero, as long as the >capture setting was turned on and the capture gain was adequate. Yeah, I feel really stupid. I always try to figure out a problem before i post and I listened to the aumix man page. But -- I don't know -- I just didn't grok. Somehow I got the idea that the R parameter for record was to record through aumix. Doh! So that was kind of dumb. Thanks to everyone who set me straight. Everything is working now. I have my VCR going into the first sound card and my stereo (with a second VCR) going into the second. I have my computer speakers connected to the first sound card. I have no speakers connected to the second sound card but my stereo has speakers. On any day, I can record 2 TV shows or a TV show and a radio program. I've been recording way more than I can listen to. The script I wrote takes a date format string. So, for example, I have it set up so that when I record jeopardy, it names the files Mon.ogg, Tue.ogg, ... Then on Monday, it over writes Mon.ogg. If I haven't listened to it yet, too bad.
