[MPlayer-users] Mencoder: No sound on recorded video

[Rich Felker]

On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 07:56:39PM -0400, Storm wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> This is probably a fairly simple question, to which I am doing something dumb. 
> (Note that I have googled with no resolution.) I just upgraded my machine 
> from an 1.2GHz Athlon to an AthlonXP 1800. In switching the board/chip/RAM, I 
> also found myself recompiling the kernel. I had to switch to ALSA from the 
> depricated OSS drivers. Now whenever I record with mencoder, I hear the sound 
> at the speakers, but the recorded video has no sound. I am using webvcrplus 
> as the interface to the listings, but did not change anything there. I can 
> also watch live tv using tvtime, and sound is fine. 

I think this is in the FAQ: you need to use your mixer to make sure
that recording is enabled on the line-in.

BTW OSS is not considered deprecated by MPlayer; rather it's
recommended.

Rich