Computer Help Please

[QuickSilverGT]

I've searched around the web and can't really find anything. I have a PCI TV-Tuner, some no name brand, and I can get the video to work fine, but I get nothing but static from the audio. I've checked the status of everything, the line-in is enable, sound from the computer is fine. I hook-up the speakers to the sound out bong on the capture card and nothing but static. I know its not the hardware because it was working before without a problem. I just stopped using it for a little bit because I was only using it to record the NBA finals. I have it hooked up with my cable connection going into the card, audio out on the card going into the line-in on my sound card, with my speakers hooked up to my speaker bong.

Any ideas?

[ArunSenior04]

What brand? My dad had a weird one. The cord that you plugged the video-in into, actually had an audio out on it as well.

[QuickSilverGT]

goog-pc tv, its the coaxial cable that plugs into the card, if i'm not mistaken its just one signal. pci card... doesn't really say much else.

[BlackElantraGT]

Try this:

On most people's Win XP desktop, on the right hand side you see an icon of a small speaker. Right click that and open volume control.

Once you have that window up, on the bottom left hand corner, there should be a button for "Advanced". Click that button.

It'll bring a new window. At the bottom of the window will be an option for Digital Output Only. If there's a check mark there, uncheck it.

Now try and see if you're sound is setup correctly.

[QuickSilverGT]

nope thats not it

all I get is static, I'm thinking its something with the codecs?

[BlackElantraGT]

did you upgrade any drivers since the last time you used it?

[QuickSilverGT]

I formatted since. Can't understamnd why its doing this though, and like most online forums dealing with computers, they are useless. Everything I've found is "you must be using the wrong codecs if the video works but not the audio", what about them and how do you fix em would be nice....

[paki]

if you get static.. this means that you have the wrong codec! lol just playing man. what format are you saving your files in? i would suggest making sure you have codecs for at least the following formats:

WAV
MP3
WMA
OGG (not as important, but you never know)

There are a ton of free codecs out there, and a few paid ones. I would google for free MP3 codecs or something. WMA should be built in if you are using XP, but I would go ahead and find a second codec just to be sure.

Also, I'm not sure what software you're using to capture the video. I would say make sure the settings are set to record audio at a certain kbps. If using MP3, I wouldn't go under 128kbps.

Hopefully that helps.. not sure how to explain further how to set the stuff since i don't know what program it is

[GrGaKC]

Try searching for Nimo Codec Pack online, sholuld have all the needed codecs with it...

[hyunelan2]

Does the static start and stop when you start and stop playing the file -err, start watching the TV? (Just trying to clarify if it's just ambient static and not a signal). I had an old TV card on an older computer I had a few years back. There was an audio out jack on the back of the card (outside computer) that needed to be plugged into the "line in" jack of the soundcard.

[QuickSilverGT]

Fixed it. Static was constant. Even when just viewing channels without recording. The problem was all in the driver. When I reformatted, windows recognized the card and installed its own driver for it. It worked for viewing channels so I never bothered to check the driver. I found the original driver disk, uninstalled the card, installed with drivers it came with and it all worked.