Who remembers Betamax ?

[SeZo]

I'm not sure if this helps but I tried connecting my speakers directly into the tv card audio output and I have sound

That was fully expected, as the audio would have been demodulated from the RF input. the question is how to transmit it to the rest of the system.
The option to link externally between the cards sounds good. Then you can use the in built audio devices as a source.

[Emegra]

Further to my last post I got an audio cable and I connected it from line out on the TV card to mic (red) on the sound card and I still got no sound output, but if I connect the speakers directly to the line out of the TV card the sound is fine.


Many thanks

Graeme

[SeZo]

Have a look in the mixer settings if your mic is enabled (not muted)

[Emegra]

Hi Sezo

I've checked and the mic is definately not muted

The settings in pulse audio settings are as follows

Playback: only system sounds are listed set at 100% (0db)
Recording: Gnome Volume Control Dialogue : peak detect from Built-In Analogue Stereo (the other option is monitor of Built-In Analogue Stereo) (Activity is showing)
Output Devices: Built-In Analogue Stereo, Port: Analogue Output, Front & Left Speakers set to 1005(0db) (no activity is showing)
Input Devices;  Built-In Audio Analogue Stereo, Port: Rear Microphone, Right & Left Speakers set to 14% (-51.42db) (activity is showing)
Configuration: All options have been tried (currently set to Analogue Stereo Duplex)

I hope you understand my descriptions my other option was to send screenshots, if you think that would be better let me know

Many Thanks

Graeme

[SeZo]

In Terminal type:

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alsamixer

When your in alsamixer and you press F5 to view all outputs there should be an input for Mic?
Navigate with your left or right arrow key to highlight the Mic (capture) input.
use the up/down arrow to raise the levels

[Mark Greaves (PCNetSpec)]

OK, let's give you a more familiar GUI front end to alsamixer:

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sudo apt-get install gnome-alsamixer

Then search your menus for "Sound Mixer"

And see if Mic playback is muted in there.

[EDIT]

Or do it SeZo's way .. which is doing the same thing, just without the nice GUI

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[Emegra]

When your in alsamixer and you press F5 to view all outputs there should be an input for Mic?
Navigate with your left or right arrow key to highlight the Mic (capture) input.
use the up/down arrow to raise the levels

I opened Alsamixer but when I press F5 I just got a grey warning symbol (grey circle with a diagonal line inside) but I was able to navigate along all the outputs using left and right arrow keys, there are 2 rear mic scales (see screenshot) and I set them both to maximum still no sound

Then search your menus for "Sound Mixer"

I can't see any other sound mixer other that pulse audio volume control which is the one I've been using

[Mark Greaves (PCNetSpec)]

The "MM" under your Front and Rear Mic's (in alsamixer) says they are both muted on both channels.

Did you install gnome-aslamixer ? .. if so, and you still can't find it in the menu's (probably somewhere under Sound 7 video), you can start it from the command line with:

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gnome-alsamixer

BTW, turn them down from 100% too

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[Emegra]

We're wired for sound

Can you explain to me why pulse audio was telling me the rear mic wasn't muted when it obviously was ?

So now I just have to find a way to record if that's possible, any suggestions (other than do it yourself)

[Mark Greaves (PCNetSpec)]

pulseaudio was telling you the mic socket wasn't muted for capture... but it was muted for playback through the speakers, this is normal to stop feeback when using a microphone.

Recording .. I'd better leave that to SeZo, as i have little experince with such things.

[SeZo]

It would be better if you could connect to line-in instead of the Mic as you could get clipping.
If you can do that then please do so and ascertain that you can get the audio, before going forward.

Now that you got sound, could get the result of:

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arecord -l

Also would suggest to use VLC to capture as it is using alsa by default (unlike xawtv defaulting to oss)

[Emegra]

Hi Guys
Sorry about the delay getting back to you, I was looking after my Grand-daughter yesterday

I changed over to line in as you suggested and I get sound so that's ok

Here's the output you asked for

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graeme@Linux1 ~ $ arecord -l
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC888 Analog [ALC888 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 2: ALC888 Analog [ALC888 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
graeme@Linux1 ~ $ 

Also would suggest to use VLC to capture as it is using alsa by default (unlike xawtv defaulting to oss)

Unfortunately I can't get it to work in VLC I've tried various settings in the preferences (all the output options) but all I get is a green screen with interference at the top of the screen

Many thanks


Graeme

[Emegra]

Further to my last post I can now get video in VLC, I never done anything I'm aware of other that try again but this thing does seem to have a mind of it's own

I'm getting a muffled noise coming through the speakers but nothing more, when I open VLC I get this error message

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Audio output failed:
The audio device "plughw:CARD=Intel,DEV=2" could not be used:
No such file or directory.

Under capture devices in VLC, Video Device is listed as  /dev/video0, I have 2 options for Audio Devices hw:0,0 & hw :0,2, I get the muffled noise with hw:0,0 and no sound at all with hw:0,2

I also tried recording and it will record video but with the muffled noise

Hope this is helpful


Many Thanks


Graeme

[SeZo]

See if the sound is muted in v4l:

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v4l2-ctl -C mute

if you get 'mute: 1'
then:

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v4l2-ctl -c mute=0

Open up VLC and post line from:
Media>Capture Device
 >Show more options
     Edit options: (example)
          :v4l2-standard=PAL_BG :input-slave=alsa://hw:0,0 :live-caching=300

[Emegra]

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graeme@Linux1 ~ $ v4l2-ctl -C mute
mute: 1
graeme@Linux1 ~ $ v4l2-ctl -c mute=0
graeme@Linux1 ~ $ 

:v4l2-standard= :input-slave=alsa:// :live-caching=300