MythTV/TV Tuner: How can i sync the audio?

[Negated Void]

Hello!
I'm setting up a mythtv box. I have a Pinnacle PCTV tv tuner. The audio hooks up w/ a loopback cable, from the tv tuner card to the mic input on the sound card.

This results in much oddity - The sound is a full second before the video, and continues when i close mythtv.

Is there a better way to hook things up / set things up?
--Murph

[Nicias]

Sounds like you might have your settings wrong in alsamixer.

[Negated Void]

Master and PCM are both about 60%
"Surround Jack Mode" is set at "Shared"
"Line" is at 90%
"Mic Select" is at "Mic1"
"IEC958 Playback AC97-SPSA" is at 100
Via DXS[0-4] are at 100
It's in 2 channel mode
"Downmix" is off
"Input Source Select" is set to "Input1"
Everything else muted or at 0.

Is something wrong there?

[beandog]

What version of mythtv are you running?

Also, try this -- turn off automatic transcoding and see if an recorded file is in sync or not.
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[Negated Void]

It's version "media-tv/mythtv-0.19_p9163-r1"

Transcoding dosn't matter - it occurs when i "Watch TV" too.

[Negated Void]

Actually, I don't think myth is getting the audio at all.

The recordings i just made as a test have no sound.

How am I supposed to set things so that Myth gets the audio, instead of it just playing becuase it's being fed into my line-in jack?

--Murph

[Hobbes-X]

Following the Myth docs for the command line worked best for me:

http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-7.html#ss7.2

[Negated Void]

Wow, that fixed everything!

Thanks a bundle - really, I doubt i'd have figured that out. I think it was because Alsamixer, by default, only really deals with the "playback" settings, not the capture ones.

*Happily plays with his mythtv*

[Hobbes-X]

Yeah- I don't like following manuals verbatim, but after I struggled with getting the settings perfect for a couple days I gave it a try out of desperation