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I was just wondering if anyone out there can help me. a few weeks ago Aldi had a special offer on infa red keyboards and mice and also a tv card for £29.99.

I brought the tv card and have installed it and it works fine channels appear although a bit fuzzy down to poor aerial and the radio also works fine. The only problem is that when i try to capture off it i get picture but no sound.

It works using POWER VCR 3.0 and i was wondering which of the settings i need to fix

stero, wave, line in, or AUX???? it is hooked up to my soundcard and i do get sound when i just want to watch or listen to the channels but not when i capture any help would be greatly appericated

check your windows sound settings.. you want to make sure that you are recording the right sound input.. on my TV card . i have a short mic jack that connects the audio out to the mic in on my audigy.. and as you can only select one source at a time for recording.. have a look at your settings

thanx but still no joy!!!!!

I have a similar TV card and get the same problem. I tried all manner of things and in the end gave up!

Don`t let my tests put you off though - there must be some way...I mean if you can hear the TV show you must be able to record it!

Miles

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"Let`s just say that if complete and utter chaos was lightning, he`d be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting `All gods are bastards`."

thanks Miles,

Is good to know that im not the only one with this problem. There must be somebody out there who knows how to fix this problem

Sorry if i`m stating the obvious chaps, but just in case anyone is missing it: Right click on the speaker icon at the bottom (taskbar) of the screen, left click on `open volume control`, and look for any ticks against `mute` under any of the settings/sliders, untick them if they are, I may be wrong but I think the `line` is used to record and the `wave` is used to replay the sound. (I checked this by moving the `wave` volume whilst replaying as my replayed sound was a little loud and raucous compared to the normal TV sound.) If you are missing any of the settings/sliders you must left click on `options` in the drop down menu, then left click again on `properties` Tick any of the items that you need and that don`t yet have ticks against them, they will then be added to the sliders and you can check for mutes etc. In case I am stating something too obvious I apologise, and if it still won`t work, then the answer is probably in the configuration settings of Power VCR. Best of luck, Roger. P.S. Isn`t there a helpline number in the box, or was I mistaken? Make sure that the audio cable is taken from the audio out of the TV card into the `Green` input on your soundcard

This item was edited on Friday, 1st August 2003, 13:20

Don`t worry about stating the obvious...it`s often the obvious things that people miss! :)

However, I did indeed mess around with the volume settings (for playback and recording)
But no matter what I did, I could hear the sound, but not record it

Also tried capturing using VirtualDub - that didn`t work either

Miles

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"Let`s just say that if complete and utter chaos was lightning, he`d be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting `All gods are bastards`."

Check the Audio section in virtual dub - For a while I was confused why I could hear the original but no audio on playback. It turned out I had the audio capture set to Mic when it should have been line in.