TV-Wonder 9000 mixer problem.

[Sam]

Why does 9000's TV player applet insist on screwing around with my audio
mixer settings?

Every time I start the TV player application on XP Home, it gratuitously
changes my recording source from "Line In" to "Aux". I'm using the patch
cable to looping the audio out from 9000 TV-out into "Line In", going to the
on-motherboard AC-97 audio chipset.

I wasted two miserable hours of my life pulling my hair out trying to figure
out why I was not getting audio in saved MPEG files. I get audio just fine
when playing live video. When I begin recording I still hear the audio
while the video stream is being saved. But when I play back the saved
mpeg file, there was no audio until I figured this one out.

I'm not making this up. The playback mixer is left alone, so I'm still
hearing audio from TV-in. Only the recording mixer settings get reset by
the TV player app, everytime it starts up.

If I open the recording mixer applet first, and then start the TV applet, I
can observe the audio recording source changing from "Line In" to "Aux" just
after the TV applet's splash screen comes up. In order to record audio
properly I must manually reset the recording source back to "Line In" EVERY
BLEEPING TIME I RUN THE TV APPLET, after it fully opens!

 

[Michael Walraven]

seems you may need to rerun the initialization wizard.

start the TV
in the TV control panel select the Display tab
select the initialization wizard
about the fourth page sets up which audio input to use.

hope this works (I use line in and it works for me)
Michael

 

[AxesDenyd]

If I may offer you a suggestion...

I have a AIW 9000 and run Win2k, and you don't KNOW how much I've
argued
with mine about recording audio. What'd I've come to find, is that if
you set your card to whatever input it actually werks well with. Then
set your recording properties in volume control to ONLY open up the
audio in channel to the ati (however ur gittin it there, aux, line in,
etc.)... Windows seems to have a nasty habit of wanting to select
another channel if it notices that the ati channel has data already...

Now, I have a question for you... Have you had problems with windows
wanting to soft-mute your audio while watching the tv when windows
tries
to play a system sound?