On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 11:09:44 +0800 "Mick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > What hardware are you using for this?? Can you send AC3 through the > > audio device into either an optical or digital cable into an amp?? > > ECS K7S5A > ATHLON 1800XP > SBLIVE VALUE > DXR3 (Hollywood plus mpeg2 decoder) > GENERIC (CPH061) BT878A > 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 > AGP(rev 04) > NEC USB2.0 4PORT PCI CARD. > > Yes, the dxr3 (and I think the sblive) are both capable of passing ac3 > streams. Although I don't have the ampt to recieve it just yet, i am > away of many people using the dxr3 for such services). ATM I am not > using the dxr3 for anything right now. I use the G400 for video out and > the sblive for audio out. The only reason I don't ude the dxr3 is > because when I upgraded to 2.6 kernels the dxr3 was not quite ready > yet... I have two DXR3's that I'm doing nothing at all with. One of them, I even attached a very slim laptop style cpu cooler to the EM8300 because it was overheating. They will pass AC3, and the mpeg output is quite good, but my freevo aspirations are broader than mpeg. Analog out is also excellent on the dxr3. I actually have thought about just using one as a sound card. I *do have an amp to receive AC3 streams, but i haven't yet tackled that. Currently my freevo system is a VIAC3, but so far i haven't found a way to get it to transmit anything but 48khz PCM. > My Favorite part is running usb through my wall, i have a usb2 hub in my > tv-room now with a DVDRW, and a 40G usb disk. Plus an old sony ps > joystick allplugged in and working fine (although i haven't had time yet > to integrate the joystick..) That's nothing! Up until about 18 months ago, I had, running through my wall: Power (from the big UPS), PS/2 KB and mouse, TWO scsi cables, Two sets of composite A/V cables, VGA, and Ethernet. Because i wanted the cd burner, monitor, keyboard, and mouse for one of my computers in the bedroom, and leave the noisy stuff in the other room. A/V cables were for the stereo, vcr, etc. Ethernet was for my laptop, should i want to plug it in. The other scsi cable was hanging off another scsi bus, because i was too chicken to hot-plug scsi on the live bus when i wanted to attach another device. In a few weeks i hope to reimplement - no scsi, kb/mouse/vga on *longer cables this time, one a/v, and one firewire. I'm unsure how much sympathy i should have for the OP. Some people have these troubleshooting methodologies that just guarantee failure. The recording "with sound" bit reminds me of some old threads. It's not that hard of a concept - either your bt8xx card has implemented the on-chip ADC, or it hasn't. load btaudio, play with the settings, see if you can get it to work. No? then line-in to a sound card. In any case, you have to set the rec source correctly - which i admit is vaguely documented. But i have no intentions of using Freevo to record -- except possibly with VDR, in which case rec source will be a moot point anyway. What I'm trying to say here is that the thing about linux in general and freevo in particular is that you CAN make it work on just about any hardware, given both the ability to read and follow instructions and the ability to improvise and intuitively troubleshoot. By this i mean that you must first analyze the failure mode, and then work at preventing it. Or just route around it. Banging your head against a problem won't fix it. Any hardware configuration is going to require some customization, even if you think you have the exact same boards as the author you might have a different ac97 codec chip on a sound board with the same name, for example. And Hauppauge alone, has so many versions of the WinTV that it's nearly impossible to find someone on the internet who has the same version you do and is using the same software you want to use. And then there's the OTHER brands of tv tuners. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
