[MPlayer-users] No sound with PCTV 320e USB stick on Windows XP

[Stelios Gerogiannakis]

Ehmm, anyone?...
Should I consider this a known issue?

Thank you,
S.

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Stelios Gerogiannakis
<sgerogia at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I am trying to watch analog TV on my Win XP SP3 Dell Latitude E6500 laptop
> using Pinnacle's PCTV 320e USB stick.
> I am using MPLayer v. Sherpya-SVN-r28311-4.2.5
>
> Although I can get video and tune to whichever channel I want without a
> problem, I cannot get any audio output no matter what I have tried.
>
> I can be pretty sure it is not a driver problem as I can watch and listen
> to TV using both Pinnacle's TVCenter Pro v4.99 application and VLC v.1.0.0
> (see attached vlc.jpg for related VLC settings page).
>
> The attached ZIP contains various command line argument combinations as
> well as the generated logs and GraphEdit graphs for each case. They were
> generated following the instructions from here (
> http://doors.univer.omsk.su/~voroshil/<http://doors.univer.omsk.su/%7Evoroshil/>).
>
>
> I should note here that I get similar behavior (i.e. video but no sound)
> with MPlayer and the same card on my desktop PC (Dell Latitude Optiplex
> 755).
>
> I am sure it must be some grave misunderstanding of the command-line
> arguments on my part, as in the debug output I can see the correct audio
> device ids.
>
> I would appreciate any kind of hint/advice/suggestion/link/... as Google
> does not produce any useful results and I have reached a dead-end.
> Even letting me know that this is a lost cause would save me time from
> stopping searching any further.
>
> Thank you for your time.
>
> Cheers,
> S.
>