Hello! >With Alsa, both the "Line" and "Capture" devices must be marked as When i give :alsa: to the command line, mplayer and mencoder both gives an error message (i'm not at home, but when i get back from work, i will send the output). In my mixer, i can see the capture input lines, and they aren't muted or pulled down... (If they were, then will be no sound in tvtime or with mplayer et al.) >And use a real audio codec, like PCM at worst... not "copy". I tried to user mp3 codec at past, but i fed up with writing long command line. For trying to record, copy or pcm is the quickest, if i can record picture + sound together, i will search for a suitable MP3 codec setting :) (But, i will try an MP3 codec at night, because, as you say, it is possible that -oac copy doesn't work at my machine? ...everything is possible as an error ;D ) Thanks; Csaba Horvath <!-- PATH STAT NUMBER ERROR -->