Marvel G400 and no (live) sound

[Lawrence Lin]

I can not get sound from the TV tuner through the PC-VCR, video is fine. If I record an AVI of the TV then play the resulting file (in PC-VCR), it has sound. So the phyiscal connections are fine, what's with PC-VCR?

Specs:
5.41 drivers (same problem w/5.25, 5.3), 1.51 Vid Tools
Xitel Storm Platnium - Aureal 2440 drivers

[Paddy]

I take it the TV is not on mute?

- sorry, had to ask! -

[Kruzin]

The guys in the Desktop Video forum should have your answer...hop over there to find a copy of this thread.....

[This_Idiot]

Yep, you have to manually un-mute the line-in (or whatever channel you are using) on your soundcards mixer.

Check out http://idiots-guide.matroxusers.com/G400review.html

This_Idiot

[Lawrence Lin]

The line-in isn't muted. I looked at both the Windows Volume Control and the one inside PC-VCR (prop. -> recording -> audio levels).

[This_Idiot]

Hi Lawrence,

Well that worked over here, so I would assume that mebbe you have your audio-in hooked into a different channel on your mixer.

Try unmuting each channel in turn to see if you can isolate which channel is being used

[Lawrence Lin]

Tried all the other inputs, no dice. It had to be correct to start with or I wouldn't have recorded sound when capturing a clip.

[Lawrence Lin]

Though I already sent another reply, oh well. I figured out the problem, The_Idiot was correct, line-in was muted. However, it wasn't the one I thought (recording), there's a line-in option in playback. Weird since one doesn't think of line-in as 'playing back'. It didn't show up by default in the Volume Control, eventually got to showup and all's well.