WDM Recorder using Software Compression

[normanr]

PCM is standard uncompressed audio, so I assume that pin is your standard audio pin. I doubt there's an intermediate filter needed but it's possible. Does GraphEdit not render it if you right click the pin and hit 'render pin'?

I assume the quality settings breaking is something odd, not 100% sure. The logs for config that you included aren't from when you were trying to configure the capture source.

Sorry, the current version doesn't support bit-rate because I couldn't get hold of API docs for the v3 Elecard components, perhaps with v4 I might have a bit more luck. I've already downloaded the .Net SDK, but I have yet to install it to check it out.

[The Mac]

Graphedit will render the PCM pin, but no sound when played...

Bit rate is kinda important, as my barton 2500 cant handle the 6000 bps default. Its totally unwatchable...think thumb book....lol

Anything i can do to clean it up?

how would you like me to create the config logs? what should i do, and and what point should i package them up?

[nitrogenx]

Live TV in preview mode works fine, but as soon as I start timeshifting or recording something the audio knocks out. Changing mixer settings does not help. I think it might have something to do with the "Recording Source" option in the "Software Recorder Configuration" menu. The only logical option available is "Video: Tuner, Audio: Tuner", but my card needs to get the audio from my sound card's line-in. Could this be the problem?

[normanr]

Mmm, I'd play with the mixer settings and see if you can get anything to make the sound come out right.

I hear you, the plugin needs to have this added to it, it's been on the request list for a while. You could try dropping the image size, this might help.

The logs files need to come from when you launch the config app, and go into the capture source configuration window.

[normanr]

Live TV in preview mode works fine, but as soon as I start timeshifting or recording something the audio knocks out. Changing mixer settings does not help. I think it might have something to do with the "Recording Source" option in the "Software Recorder Configuration" menu. The only logical option available is "Video: Tuner, Audio: Tuner", but my card needs to get the audio from my sound card's line-in. Could this be the problem?

that's just to select where the video and audio comes from (other cards support composite and s-video). If you try building a recording graph in GraphEdit can you get it to work? It sounds like somethings not being routed correctly in the graph somewhere.

[nitrogenx]

that's just to select where the video and audio comes from (other cards support composite and s-video). If you try building a recording graph in GraphEdit can you get it to work? It sounds like somethings not being routed correctly in the graph somewhere.

Yeah, but the audio shouldn't be coming from the tuner, it should be coming from the line-in input, shouldn't it? I'm playing around with GraphEdit right now, but I don't know what this program is supposed to do, I'll do some more searching.

[nwenos]

First I have an Asus 9600XT which has an ATI Rage Theater chip. It only has svideo and composite input so I was running my TV feed from my VCR to the composite input. I tried it with the capture pin set to capture and the preview set to preview but it just froze when trying to watch live tv. I changed them both to VP and it worked great, sound and everything. I installed the Moonlight encoder and used my already installed Cyberlink MPEG Muxer and was able to record.

second, I got tired of having to run through my vcr so I threw in an old Hauppauge WinTV with the BT878 chipset. Capture pin set to capture, preview set to preview. One glitch I hit at first is when I clicked to watch live tv, I heard sound right away but it took about 30 secs for the video to show up. I switched from Overlay to VMR9 and that fixed thr problem. Plus, VMR9 looks a ton better, I should have switched to VMR9 back with my Asus card. My trial period ran out on the moonlight encoder so I don't know if recording works but I'm sure it does.

Thanks for the work normanr

[nitrogenx]

Yeah, but the audio shouldn't be coming from the tuner, it should be coming from the line-in input, shouldn't it? I'm playing around with GraphEdit right now, but I don't know what this program is supposed to do, I'll do some more searching.

Okay I did a little graph work, and now I'm stuck, where do I go from here:
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[normanr]

Okay I did a little graph work, and now I'm stuck, where do I go from here?

That graph looks stunning, now all you need to do is to add the Moonlight M71 Muxer, and feed the output from the video encoder and audio encoder to the Mux. (You have to add another pin to the mux using the properties page - also you need to refresh the graph using the menu after this, so that GraphEdit 'sees' the new pin). You can then feed the output of the muxer in to a file writer (like the gb-pvr file writer).

FYI: The drop down directly controls the Crossbar device. So it's used to choose the video and audio inputs that you want to record from, i.e. svideo, composite, tuner, aux, etc. I think it probably makes more sense to you now that you see how stuff plugs together.

The link between the Crossbar's 'Audio Decoder Out' pin, and your Realtek's 'Line In' is a physical cable at the back of your pc right? Alternatively is it possible to take the crossbar audio out directly into the audio encoder?

[nitrogenx]

Okay, it all connects great, but when I try to play it in Windows Media Player the video starts going really fast and there's still no sound. At least in GB-PVR the video plays at the right rate. :mad: