Unable to record audio on tvcard plugged in line-in

[Elv13]

Hi,

I am tring to use SOX to forward alsa hw.0,1 to /dev/dsp1 so I can use mythTV to record video using my tv-card. The card work just fine and the audio cable is plugged into line-in on my sound card.

I can record tv with sound using:
mencoder -tv driver=v4l2:input=2:width=640:height=480:norm=ntsc :chanlist=us-cable:alsa:adevice=hw.0,0 tv://37 -oac copy -ovc copy -o test.avi

All solutions in forums are outdated and don't work anymore, even if they worked with previous Ubuntu version (last time I tried to use sox was with 7.10). What is the right command line?

*Ubuntu 9.10 fresh install
**Pulseaudio is removed as it cause me nightmares.

EDIT: this does not work

sudo sox -s -r 32000 -c 2 -t alsa hw:0,0 -s -r 32000 -c 2 -t ossdsp /dev/dsp1
sox soxio: Can't open output file `/dev/dsp1': Unable to reset OSS driver.  Possibly accessing an invalid file/device

/dev/dsp1 does not exist so it may be normal

[shane2peru]

You may have to change your mencoder line like this:

alsa:adevice=hw.1,0:amode=1:audiorate=32000: -oac pcm

Notice the hw.# is different than 0, also amode=1 and audiorate, you can set that to what you want, and then the -oac pcm. It has been a very long time so I don't remember exactly where or why I used those options, but it seems to work for me.

Shane