Hello! I've got an old Bt8x8-based TV card, from which i want to record TV broadcasts. With TVtime, it works fine. I tried to record from it with Mencoder, and it recorded fine the movie, but without sound. I tried to wtach TV with Mplayer, and the sound is good, although the player says "No sound..." (With or without "forceaudio=1"). When i record a movie with Mencoder, i can hear the sound of the TV broadcast that i'm recording, but on the recorded movie, there is silence. (-oac copy, no chance for a bad codec). Mencoder doesn't say that theres is no sound. My system has an Intel HD Audio on-board sound card, microphone works fine on Skype. Operating system is KUbuntu 9.10, with Pulse Audio. Mplayer is latest from SVN. (I had similar problems with earlier KUbuntu distros, and i haven't found a solution.) The bttv, bt878 sound driver, and other hw drivers are (i think) ok, because TVtime works. My command line was mencoder -tv driver=v4l2:device=/dev/video0:input=0:audiorate=44100:amode=0:audioid=1:normid=5:quality=100:width=640:height=480:volume=600:chanlist=europe- east:channel=E7:forcechan=2 -ovc lavc -oac copy -o tv.mpg tv:// I haven't got any changes in audio, when i set amode to any value. If someone wants to see, i can send the whole Mplayer / Mencoder output, and command lines. Or, if someone can help me, i will be thankful :) Regards : Csaba Horvath
