Reducing volume when recording TV on an AIW card

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Gilden Man

Hi,
I'm trying to capture TV on my 9800SE All-in-Wonder card. Everything
fine except there seems no way to reduce the volume coming from the NTL
digital set-top box. This is causing awful distortion in the recorded
audio signal. There is no way to reduce the volume from the TV box, so I
need to do this on the PC. However, there seems nowhere to do this.
I'm sure this must be possible, but where do I do it?
Cheers.
 
Gilden Man said:
Hi,
I'm trying to capture TV on my 9800SE All-in-Wonder card. Everything
fine except there seems no way to reduce the volume coming from the NTL
digital set-top box. This is causing awful distortion in the recorded
audio signal. There is no way to reduce the volume from the TV box, so I
need to do this on the PC. However, there seems nowhere to do this.
I'm sure this must be possible, but where do I do it?
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I also never found any controls.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ATI Technologies\Multimedia\Features\TV\Sound

Here you can adjust the TV recording volume.

MMC has a lot of nice features, but is also very very buggy. There's one way
to let my PC crash and that is with specific MMC 'features'. Like Bill says:
'It's not a bug, it's a feature'

Martijn Stam
 
I also never found any controls.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ATI Technologies\Multimedia\Features\TV\Sound

Here you can adjust the TV recording volume.
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Many thanks for that.
What an astounding oversight. Do they actually test these things? A TV
capture card that can only capture TV with distorted sound said:
MMC has a lot of nice features, but is also very very buggy. There's one way
to let my PC crash and that is with specific MMC 'features'. Like Bill says:
'It's not a bug, it's a feature'
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I've begun to notice this to. Leaving the TV software running can quite
often cause a reboot of my PC. Not very reassuring if I want it to record
a reasonably long program. "Turn your TV in to a VCR" :(
Cheers.
 
Gilden Man said:
Many thanks for that.
What an astounding oversight. Do they actually test these things? A TV


I've begun to notice this to. Leaving the TV software running can quite
often cause a reboot of my PC. Not very reassuring if I want it to record
a reasonably long program. "Turn your TV in to a VCR" :(
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Again an other bug:
At this moment I do the recording in 'Full Resolution (CCIR-601)' mode. VCR
works fine, but after a minute TV-on-demand MMC crashes and I have to do a
reboot. grrrr I really begin to hate this software!
Faulting application atimmc.exe, version 8.8.0.2, faulting module
atidvcr.dll, version 8.8.0.31203, fault address 0x00046dc2.
Faulting application atimmc.exe, version 8.8.0.2, faulting module
aticore.dll, version 8.8.0.3, fault address 0x00016a32.
Faulting application atimmc.exe, version 8.8.0.2, faulting module ntdll.dll,
version 5.1.2600.1217, fault address 0x00007d85.

And indeed, the only software that crashes my PC is MMC. Just watch TV and
play some movie and do some adjustments, et voila, my PC is instant off.

PS I had some trouble with the tv tuner too (of course). Add the channels
manually and do the fine-tuning in the registry. I noticed that automatic
tuning is not exact and manually added stations aren't registered right in
the registry.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ATI Technologies\Multimedia\LCS\CHANNELS
Here you can fine-tume the channels...

Would it be a good idea if I make a bug reporting tool? After enough
complaints I can send them to the right persons of Ati.

Martijn Stam
 
Gilden said:
Hi,
I'm trying to capture TV on my 9800SE All-in-Wonder card. Everything
fine except there seems no way to reduce the volume coming from the NTL
digital set-top box. This is causing awful distortion in the recorded
audio signal. There is no way to reduce the volume from the TV box, so I
need to do this on the PC. However, there seems nowhere to do this.
I'm sure this must be possible, but where do I do it?
Cheers.
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what about the 'line in" part of control panel?
 
ATI really sux when it comes to build a HTPC (PC for recording TV programs)
The MMC app is causing lots of trouble often including freezes and reboots,
it's really hard to have a computer with a ATI AIW card running with a
schedule task of recording a program every day and not need to reboot this
PC every, every day because the MMC app or ATI drivers has caused an
undesired action or freezed the PC.

As a test I lend a different TV capture card and a different graphics card
and all is now working like a charm, no more reboots no more freezes no
hazzle - Good by ATI it was fun for a very short period of time...

/ J
 
Andre C said:
No, that does not work. The only solution is the registry hack
suggested earlier.
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That's strange, because the registry hack does nothing for me.
I have the line out of the AIW connected to the line in of my
integrated motherboard soundcard.
I've found that altering the recording line in level on the Volume
Control applet does indeed reduce the volume.
However, that seems like the ATI TV software is capturing the audio
from the line in of the sound card i.e. it performs a DA conversion to
it's line out and then the sound card is performing a AD which is
being captured. Why is the TV software not recording the it's own
digital audio signal. I thought one of the features of the Rage
Theater 200 chip on board the card was that it had new higher quality
sound processing features. Why am I having to capture this signal
after two conversions?
Cheers.
 
Martijn Stam said:
Again an other bug:
At this moment I do the recording in 'Full Resolution (CCIR-601)'
mode. VCR works fine, but after a minute TV-on-demand MMC crashes and
I have to do a reboot. grrrr I really begin to hate this software!
Faulting application atimmc.exe, version 8.8.0.2, faulting module
atidvcr.dll, version 8.8.0.31203, fault address 0x00046dc2.
Faulting application atimmc.exe, version 8.8.0.2, faulting module
aticore.dll, version 8.8.0.3, fault address 0x00016a32.
Faulting application atimmc.exe, version 8.8.0.2, faulting module
ntdll.dll, version 5.1.2600.1217, fault address 0x00007d85.
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I am also having a problem with TV-on-demand. I can get everything else to
work--in fact I had a TV Wonder Card and have done picture in picture but 1
to 5 minutes running TV on demand and it locks the system hard. Please
post the solution if you come across one--it's driving me nuts!
 
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