digital TV

[Gerard]

Thank for your reply Martin.  I am willing to post for the time being--I
can learn about sound and video as I try to examine whether the card is
the problem or a set-up option on my pc.

This string tells us there is an on-board sound device, and one on the
tuner (source device).

Output from arecord -l from console:

> card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: ALC662 Analog [ALC662 Analog] 
> Subdevices: 1/1 
> Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 
> card 1: CX8801 [Conexant CX8801], device 0: CX88 Digital [CX88
> Digital] 
> Subdevices: 1/1
> Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 
> 
> 
> LINUX TV says:
> 
> 
>         The chip specs for the on-chip TV sound decoder are next to
>         useless :-/
>         
>         Nevertheless, the built-in TV sound decoder starts working
>         now, at least for PAL-BG. Other TV norms need other code ... 
>         
>         FOR ANY REPORTS ON THIS PLEASE MENTION THE TV NORM YOU ARE
>         USING. 
>         
>         Most tuner chips do provide mono sound, which may or may not
>         be useable depending on the board design. With the Hauppauge
>         cards it works, so there is mono sound available as fallback. 
>         audio data dma (i.e. recording without loopback cable to the
>         sound card) is supported since 2.6.16
>         (CONFIG_VIDEO_CX88_ALSA). It only works with boards with
>         function 01 enabled. To check if your board supports it, issue
>         lspci -n. If supported, you should see a 1471:8801 or
>         1471:8811 PCI device. 



This is what my audio preferences look like in System>Preferences>Sound.

In Applications>Sound&Video>Volume Control



The little speaker was muted.

The full text of option 6 is: Capture: ALSA PCM on hw:1 (cx88 digital
via DMA (PulseAudio mixer)

I will check if this is a fix. MPlayer is causing me some trouble with
poor images after an install from the repositories. I then uninstalled
it to reinstall from source. Now I can't connect to the tuner at all.
I'm looking for a good "front-end" for TV using Mplayer.


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