Noisy capture with Matrox Marvel G400 with TV

[Buddy Stark]

Hello to all! I am having trouble with my system and noisy capture. I have an AMD K6-2 350 system with a soundblaster live! value soundcard, G400 with TV video card, 20.5 gig ibm hard drive for my OS and a 30.7 gig Maxtor hard drive to capture my video to. Ok, for my problem. I use the Matrox PC-VCR Remote software to do my capturing and it does a great job in the capture itself as far as the video goes. The real problem lies in the captured sound. While capturing I do not hear any staticy noise, however, when I play back the .avi file, I hear staticy noise. Can anyone that has this sort of set up give me any ideas how to get rid of this? I have made sure all cables are secure in their sockets. Please elaborate how you have your settings with this configuration. I am about to pull out my hair bacause I have tried everything I can imagine. If I capture using cd quality, it is really nasty sounding, and it is only marginally better with TV Quality settings and the best sound I can get which is still really noisy is with low quality sound capturing. I know this sounds backwards, but I didnt mistype....PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!

Buddy Stark (b-sstark@terraworld.net)

[wobbly]

hi buddy,

it could be your recording volume is too high, try lowering it to just above off.

good luck

[Buddy Stark]

wobbly,
Thanks. I usually capture with the volume about middle of the way up. I will turn it down and see what happens.
Buddy

[Walrus]

Buddy Stark: The BOB often has problems with adding noise to input and output. If you have a VCR with stereo outs, you can try to hook it directly to the line-in of your sound card, thus totally circumventing the break-out box. The other option is to use a program like cool edit to denoise the audio (as I usually do). Their ancient demo works perfectly well for this.