From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mta1.math.wisc.edu ([144.92.166.194]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1FWyNs-0003Gi-00 for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 12:21:28 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mta1.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8642674225 for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:20:58 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mta1.math.wisc.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mta1 [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 10441-17 for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:20:55 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mailhost.math.wisc.edu (lcyoung.math.wisc.edu [144.92.166.90]) by mta1.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC8FF7422E for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:20:55 -0500 (CDT) Received: from yoda.math.wisc.edu (yoda.math.wisc.edu [144.92.166.12]) by mailhost.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5FEB100451 for ; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:20:55 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <6.1.0.6.2.20060421110744.01b74b60@mailhost.math.wisc.edu> X-Sender: jheim@mailhost.math.wisc.edu (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.1.0.6 Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:20:55 -0500 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." From: John Heim Subject: Re: Recording on SB Live line-in In-Reply-To: <20060418224902.GB2808@hhs48.com> References: <6.1.0.6.2.20060418171732.01af1270@mailhost.math.wisc.edu> <20060418224902.GB2808@hhs48.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-UWMath-MailScanner: amavisd-new at math.wisc.edu X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.8rc1 Precedence: list Reply-To: "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: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:21:29 -0000 At 05:49 PM 4/18/2006, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >John, > >The mike is a monaural device. So no matter how you cable it, you only >can capture one channel. > >The volume setting of the line device is only half of the story. You >also need to set capture on, and choose a capture level as well. Not >sure of aumix, but amixer lets you do that. You could actually record >the line device with its playback gain set to zero, as long as the >capture setting was turned on and the capture gain was adequate. Yeah, I feel really stupid. I always try to figure out a problem before i post and I listened to the aumix man page. But -- I don't know -- I just didn't grok. Somehow I got the idea that the R parameter for record was to record through aumix. Doh! So that was kind of dumb. Thanks to everyone who set me straight. Everything is working now. I have my VCR going into the first sound card and my stereo (with a second VCR) going into the second. I have my computer speakers connected to the first sound card. I have no speakers connected to the second sound card but my stereo has speakers. On any day, I can record 2 TV shows or a TV show and a radio program. I've been recording way more than I can listen to. The script I wrote takes a date format string. So, for example, I have it set up so that when I record jeopardy, it names the files Mon.ogg, Tue.ogg, ... Then on Monday, it over writes Mon.ogg. If I haven't listened to it yet, too bad.