recording problem

[Elvis-Gauss]

I resently installed alsa and I have 2 sound cards. One is the TV tuner and the other is intel8x0.
However now I can't record any sound coming from the TV-tuner or intel8x0
The error message is:
Failed to create GStreamer encoder elements - check your encoding setup

I don't now what it means. Also I would like to be able to capture video and audio from my tuner, but I don't now which program whould I use and how to do it. I use tvtime but it doesn't have any option for capturing. I suppose there is another program that do it. Can anybody help me?
This is /etc/modules.d/alsa:
# Alsa 0.9.X kernel modules' configuration file.
# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/media-sound/alsa-utils/files/alsa-modules.conf-rc,v 1.4 2004/11/16 01:31:22 eradicator Exp $

# ALSA portion
# OSS/Free portion
##
## IMPORTANT:
## You need to customise this section for your specific sound card(s)
## and then run `update-modules' command.
## Read alsa-driver's INSTALL file in /usr/share/doc for more info.
##
## ALSA portion
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
alias snd-card-1 snd-bt87x

option snd-intel8x0 id="first"
option snd-bt87x id="second"
## OSS/Free portion
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1
##

# OSS/Free portion - card #1
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

## OSS/Free portion - card #2
alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss

alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss
alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss
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