Tuesday, January 21, 2003

All-in-Wonder that it works

After 2 days of re-patching the system, I've finally managed to get the ATI card hooked up so that it outputs sound to my sound card when I'm watching video on the S-Video port. I think I touched the CMedia audio driver, the VIA 4-in-1 driver, ATI control panel, ATI Multimedia Control Panel, ATI video driver, ATI WDM(?) driver...

Now I can go back and re-capture all of those test videos (which had no sound before).

(oh, and SC4 seems to have failed on CD2 again on the other PC)

One of the things I'm still trying to figure out is why the MPEG2 recordings won't play back in Windows Media Player (complains that it can't find a codec). More disturbing is that the ATI file player won't play back the ATI TV recorded MPEG2 files.

Not sure about another thing either, the audio levels in my capture MPEG1s are low (about 1/4 normal) which means a high signal-noise ratio (hissssss). The audio card line-in level is set to maximum, but I'm not sure that has any effect or not. I don't hear the hiss when I listen to the VCR directly, only when playing the MPEG file back afterwards. So I might need to examine the signal level that the VCR is giving to the ATI card.

posted by Wuphon's at 8:47 PM