Help for Pinnacle PCTV 800i (no sound options)

[pjsteele]

How do I get sound from the Pinnacle PCTV HD 800i PCI card??

I see the TV great but the Audio Device does not find options.

I'm desperate. please help!!!

[VLC_help]

If you can't see separate audio capture device in VLC and you aren't using separate cable from your device to your soundcard, then you can't get sound with VLC. If you use separate cable, make sure you have selected you soundcard as audio capture device.

[pjsteele]

This card does not have an audio cable. Like the SAA713X Philips Card.

I can get sound and audio from iUVRC.

Do I need to use Crossbar for Audio? Download a special driver? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[VLC_help]

It is a limitation of VLC. Atmo was working fix for this, but I am not sure if it done yet. You can test nightlies to see if they support your audio capture.
http://nightlies.videolan.org/

[pjsteele]

Great! Thank you.

Please let me know if a monetary donation would help accelerate development.

Thanks again!

[clettsome]

Hi, I have the same problem (no audio) and would like to know what I can do to get my pinnacle pctv hd pro (801e) to work with VLC. Is there a time frame or a developer I can query/"work with" to better understand the development of this issue. I see it being a significant benefit to others if the problem can be ratified.

Thanks Chad

[atmo]

Hi,

the "fix" isn't ready yet - because its much more to do - than my first thought was - to make it work - the current code stuff does only work with some cards - which deliver a stream (audio and video in one)
To make it really work for most cards - also with audio from external sources -- like Soundcards -- it needs much more time - but currently I don't have that much to do so, because my regular work workload is currently very high - I will try to continue on this if I have some more free time:) - so its for me not a money problem or something which could be solved with money

If you are interested to work on the issue - I can share my changes with you or everybody else - what I did so far is:
- allow also to choose soundcards as audio source
- choose also the video card of it has an Audio Output Pin (DirectShow) - for seperated audio
- more options to configure in the main dialog f.e. the capture rate, the audio source (Line In, Microphone, TV-Tuner etc.) - but that is
crap - because the names of the Pins are not static so every Soundcard driver seems to use other names
and identifications - I didn't found a naming standard -- currently I have only a static list of usual names but this wouldn't work for most people,
- more flexible would be to read in this choicelist - as an action after changing the device selection
- but this would need more changes to the dialog - and standard communication mechanism - I'am afraid.
(I'am not sure of that)
--> problem is here the configuration dialog (and logic behind) doesn't know anything about dependencies between the options ...

another problem is the crossbar stuff for the capture cards - the current code and stuff arround is very heavy? to read understand -
for me at least. and needs more rewrite, I allready started to split code in several new sourcefiles - to get smaller functional units -
and not a monster edition like it is currently.

if you want to try my latest build (two month old allready) try this:
http://people.videolan.org/~atmo/vlc-0. ... -win32.zip

André

[clettsome]

Thanks for posting your efforts Andre. It would be cool to get this working since it's pretty common to have voice and video incoming from the same capture device. This would enable all USB capture cards and would 'more so' put vlc in the hand of mobile users (capture card plus laptop).

Chad

[edge30]

Hi, I've been long waiting for any advance with this issue... I'd like to help but don't have the sufficient background to such programming....
Any advance on this or any workaround to get audio from the TV Tuner? Currently what I do is I to use split the antenna signal to a set top box (with headphone output) to get the audio signal in my headphones, or run an audio cable from the STB to the line input of my laptop... but obviously it is not a portable solution (imagine me in a plane with my fancy laptop and a huge STB next to it ha ha ha)...
Thanks
e.

[VLC_help]

If your tuner has analog output, you can use cable to tuner to soundcard and then record audio from soundcard.

[swegs]

having the same problem but with the 801e. looking forward to an update that will fix this.