[MPlayer-users] mencoder records no audio from tv source

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 05:09:16PM +0100, Torinthiel wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 04:13:05PM -0600, Chris Cox wrote:
> > 
> > mencoder -oac mp3lame -ovc lavc -lameopts mode=1:vbr=2:q=4 -lavcopts 
> > vcodec=mpeg4 -tv driver=v4l2:norm=ntsc:adevice=/dev/dsp:width=352:height=240 
> > -af volume=-50 -o tv.avi tv://
> 
> -af volume=-50? Is this really THAT loud? I've never had to use anything
> negative for -af volume, not to mention that much.
> Torinthiel

there is NEVER a reason to use this option for capturing. if the
volume is too loud by that much, it's already horribly clipping and
you need to turn down the hardware mixer volume.

rich