<div dir="ltr"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I solved it. I had to run the pulse-audio mixer separately to setup the channels that I wanted to record.<br><br>Shabbat shalom!<br>Dov<br></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:00, Dov Grobgeld <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dov.grobgeld@gmail.com">dov.grobgeld@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I decided to use this rainy Friday morning to finally convert some old videos to digital format. Here's a short checklist of what I managed and failed to do:<br></font><ul>
<li><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Managed to see video and hear video through my video capture and sound-cards. Video is composite, and audio is connected to Line-In.</font></li><li><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Managed to record the video without sound with mencoder.</font></li>
<li><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Managed to record audio from the video with audacity.</font></li><li><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Noted that audacity has seval inputs refered to the same hw.x.y device. E.g. It has <br>
</font></li><ul><li><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">hw0,0: Mic<br></font></li><li><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">hw0,0: Front-Mic</font></li><li><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">hw0,0: Line:0</font></li>
<li><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">etc</font></li></ul><li>Noted that mencoder only has a single option for specifying the Alsa device, e.g. adevice=hw,0.0</li></ul><p>And here I got stuck, because I couldn't figure out how to tell mencoder to record fromLine: 0 and not from the Mic.</p>
<p>I had just as little luck with ffmpeg.</p><p>Does anyone have any idea of what parameter I'm missing?</p><p>Thanks!</p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p>Dov</p><p><br></p><div></div></font></span></div>
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