[MPlayer-users] Re: FAQ question 5.7 - info

[Chris Phillips]

> About the following:
> 
> Q: My tuner works, I can hear the sound and watch the video with 
> MPlayer, but MEncoder doesn't encode audio!
> A: TV audio encoding for Linux is currently unimplemented, we're 
> working on it. At the moment it works only on BSD.

well that's dead out of date, it works just lovely now. 

chris

> With the btaudio driver under linux 2.4.18, audio can be captured 
> directly from a bt878 card without using a cable from the TV card audio 
> out to a sound card audio in. The driver will create a /dev/dsp? 
> device, so this has to be told to mencoder/mplayer. For my WinTV card 
> the dsp rate is fixed to 32000, but this may be different for other 
> cards. Works fine for me using mencoder (and audio is in sync with the 
> video). Mplayer however did not route the sound towards the soundcard, 
> have not analyzed this yet.
> 
> Can somebody add this to the FAQ? (the btaudio part).
> 
> eric
> 
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