Adjusting the volume of recorded shows

[pancapangrawit]

Dirtboy, it would be good to know, if this is a gbpvr- or a general problem with the/your card. So no luck with registry settings neiter in WinTV2000 nor WinTVCap?
It would be absurd to normalize the audio as sort of a post-process. Even if it works, you'll loose quality, a lot of time, and you're bound to run into sync-problems by demuxing/muxing and decompressing/recompressing.

Best
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[Steerpike]

Not sure if this is related, but I'm finding that my captures using GB-PVR have very high volume, while my WinTVCap captures have lower, more 'normal' (similar to live TV on my regular TV). As far as I can tell, so far (still investigating), I have the same audio settings between GB-PVR and WinTVCap - that is, 224KHz, 48KHz, etc. Have not yet found an 'application specific' volume adjustment.

Am about to download the latest GB-PVR and see if it makes a difference.

[sub]

GB-PVR just uses the defaults, so I dont explicitly set any volume level when initiating the recording.

[dirtboy]

Recording through WinTV2000 has the proper volume, but it has a volume slider too. According to Amontillado on the shspvr forums, the registry settings he has on his site only affect the Hauppauge applications and not the hardware.

[Peter K]

I've got the same problem.

Manually tweaking the registry settings works only for the WINTV2000 application but has no bearing on GB-PVR.

Right now, I'm recording a satellite feed through my VCR which has manually adjustable audio input levels. (the satellite receiver's audio can't be adjusted) I find I have to take the audio level down about 6 db in order for GB-PVR to not overmodulate the audio.

So right now, for live TV, I use GBPVR but for digitizing VHS tape, I use the Hauppage application. It works, but it would sure be nice if I could tweak the audio input level so I'd just use GBPVR's manual recording facility for dubbing.

--Peter

[jeffcora]

Peter,

Just an idea, but I have 2 custom tasks set up in GB-PVR which use WinCapTV to start, and another to stop recording. This gives me an 'instant' record feature in GB-PVR, and just starts recording the current input. I've limited it to 240 minutes just incase I forget to 'stop' at some point. The volume setting in the WinTVCap.ini file does work, and can be changed without a reboot. This gives me a better sound on the recordings than GBPVR itself (which are also too high/over amped).

You could set up something similar and then you should be able to use GB-PVR to record from tape etc without launching another app.

Hopefully in the mean time Sub will have a chance to look a tweak within GBPVR itself to modify the record settings via whatever method is used within GBPVR.

Rob