From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from s1.cableone.net ([24.116.0.227]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1FWO5M-0004lv-00 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 21:35:56 -0400 Received: from desktop (unverified [69.92.89.54]) by S1.cableone.net (CableOne SMTP Service S1) with ESMTP id 55153079 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:36:20 -0700 Message-ID: <008701c6641a$77913490$6a00a8c0@desktop> From: "Glenn at home" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <6.1.0.6.2.20060418171732.01af1270@mailhost.math.wisc.edu> Subject: Re: Recording on SB Live line-in Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 20:33:45 -0500 Organization: Home MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 X-IP-stats: Incoming Last 0, First 13, in=38, out=0, spam=0 X-External-IP: 69.92.89.54 X-Abuse-Info: Send abuse complaints to abuse@cableone.net X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list Reply-To: Glenn at home , "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 01:35:57 -0000 Could it be a digital signal causing the problem? Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Heim" To: "speakup" Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 5:32 PM Subject: Recording on SB Live line-in I can't record the audio I hear when I plug my VCR or stereo into the line-jack on my SB Live sound card. I can record if I plug it int the mic jack but the quality isn't as good. I've used aumix to set the level of the line-in to 64 which sounds good. But recording with sox gives me nothing but silence. Ie: $ aumix -l 64 -m 64 $sox -t ossdsp /dev/dsp bogus.wav That works if I have my VCR connected to the mic although the quality is poor. Can I tell it to record from the line-in but not from the mic? Maybe aumix isn't the best tool to use. Alternately, maybe I could get the mic to work... The problem with the mic jack is that I get only the left or the right channel. I have a cable with 2 RCA jacks on one end and a stereo jack on the other. The 2 RCA jacks are plugged into the line-out on the VCR, left and right. The stereo jack is plugged into the mic on the sound card. Only 1 of the RCA jacks matter. The other I might as well leave dangling because I don't hear that channel no matter what. I can get the left channel on the VCR if i plug the jack that works into the left line-out jack on the VCR or I can get the right channel by plugging it into the right line-out jack. So the mic is acting as if there's a stereo-mono converter in there somewhere. I know the cable is good because: 1. I can hear both channels if I plug it into the line-in on the soundcard. But as I explained above, then I can't record. 2. I have a second cable and that one does the same thing 3. Both cables work fine with another sound card _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup