[MPlayer-users] Re: recording from video tapes (a novice question)

[Andre Bruce]

slackware 9.0 , duron 950 on a pcchips m810, sound onboard (sis7018
audio )
capture card: avermedia tvphone pci

Try out amode=0, amode=1 on mencoder
It might fix sound problems
try forcechan too

Andre



On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 01:11, Janusz S. Bień wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 
> Thanks to all who provided new suggestions. I am today rather busy,
> but I will try them in the afternoon.
> 
> On 12 Aug 2003  Andre Bruce <abruce at ig.com.br> wrote:
> 
> > I have the same problem with sound
> > Sound allways get distorced, and changes on the mixer doesn't seem to
> > afftect recording. 
> 
> Please note that after an initial success I am now unable to record sound
> at all.
> 
> > When watching, sound is perfetct. When playing what has been recorded,
> > sound is terrible.
> > My capture card is an avermedia too. I am not sure, but i think it is a
> > tvphone 98.
> 
> Please provide more information about your setup.
> 
> > Maybe something with avermeddia?
> 
> I hope not :-).
> 
> Regards
> 
> Janusz
> 
> 
> > On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 17:32, Janusz S. Bień wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > > The strange thing is that the results of my experiments are not fully
> > > consistent. Unfortunately, my experiments are rather chaotic as I
> > > switch between xawtv, zapping and mplayer/mecoder. Perhaps the
> > > settings in one program are inherited by others? There was a session
> > > when I was able to record correctly on-air TV both with zapping and
> > > mencoder. On next session I tried to record video tapes and the sound
> > > was recorded but distorted when played back (unfortunately I have
> > > erased the files). Now I don't have sound all the time when recording
> > > with mencoder, zapping or xawtv. In the meantime I made no concious
> > > changes to the configuration but perhaps (sorry, I don't remember) I
> > > updated my unstable Debian.
> > > 
> > > I use an on-board sound card and my mainboard is ECS K7S5A. The
> > > capture card is AverTV Studio 203.
>