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

[Hans Meine]

Hi Janusz!

On Tuesday 12 August 2003 01:40, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> In other words, your mixer application should be set to
> something like this:
>
>    record source:   line-in
>    master volume:   100
>    line-in volume:    0
>    record volume:   100
>    monitor volume:  100
>    everything else:   0
>
> Instead of 100, use some other reasonable (non-zero) value
> that won't overdrive the recording.  You'll find out.
>
> Note that the "line-in volume" level has no influence on
> the recording whatsover.  It's only for direct listening.
> Only the recording source and recoding level are significant.
> (At least that's true with my hardware and software.)

That's exactly what I was trying to say. Check that
- it is selected for recording (pressing space in xaumix as someone said)
- its recording volume is >0

You can test that with Erik's trick:
> > I get some output only from 
> > 
> >         cat -tv /dev/dsp
> 
> If it says "^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@" etc. then the sound is mute. Only when
> this is not (anymore) the case there is sense in experimenting further
> with mencoder.

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