[MPlayer-users] Live TV Audio on Linux

[rcooley]

Raena Lea-Shannon wrote:
> What are you putting in your command line? I run SB Audigy Card on SuSE 8.2 
> using the Mplayer install for SuSE 8.2 rpm and have had no problems using 
> mencoder to record off TV card, the sound is fine I use mp3lame encoding and 
> lavc video.

Well, I can safely say that the command-line isn't the problem.  I 
replaced my SB Live with an Ensoniq 5880, and once I loaded the drivers, 
everything worked perfectly with no other changes at all.  I don't 
include any audio options on the command-line, so it's not like I chose 
something it couldn't work with.

I was thinking that there may be some odd option for mplayer that some 
sound cards might require.  I don't think it's a driver issue, because I 
have successfully captured sound under Linux using MythTV with the SB 
Live and ALSA drivers under Linux.  Not to mention that I had the same 
problem with both OSS and ALSA on Linux, and had the same problems on 
FreeBSD as well.

(I also noticed that the picture quality is rather bad on FreeBSD, and 
that the max res is limited to 640x480.  Does anyone know anything about 
that, such as how it can be fixed or worked around?)