Ati AiW 8500DV Audio feedback problems

[skabio]

Hello all I searched everywhere and can not come up with the answer. I am trying to capture a program from my scientific atlanta 8000 dvr cable box to my computer with an ati AiW 8500DV and Im having some feedback issues. I can finaly get the video looking great with minimal frame loss but the audio is horrible. I have tried setting all of the recording audio inputs to mute as well as even the outputs but still have major feeback problems. I have tired using audio out to the capture card, audio out directly to the sound card and audio out to my receiver then out to capture card all with the same results. If you listen to the audio simply through my receiver it sounds fine so its got to be comming from my computer. What could be causing this? I have 2ghz system running xp with a high end audigy audio card. Thanks in advance for any help you may offer.

[lordsmurf]

What exactly is "horrible"?
Have you tried internally wiring AUX channels?

[canadateck]

What ever input your using also make sure it's not set to high,I found this makes for some bad Audio captures.You also say you are droping frames? may want to look into that to,I never drop frames,and if I do, I always have sync Problems.

[thrasimacus]

When you config the 8500 make sure you understand the wizard. Use a newer MMC. The older ones may have macro hacks.. but the older ones had a lot of probs with audio and esp sync.

Anyway, assuming you have a good MCC (one without audio issues), I have a 9600 and use 9.1, put the audio mini from the card into the LINE IN of you sound card.

In audio prop, make sure LINE IN is at 90%, REC (if using SB Card) is set to LINE IN and also at 90%.

Then make sure you look at what else is there. If you have MIC IN and it isn't muted, you'll get bad audio. You need to mute most of the rest. Keep master and wave.

Now, go into advanced and make sure your sound card is set to record in full quality mode. Also play back full quality.

Next, plug you audio cables (white and red) into the 8500 purple adapter. Try to go straight from the cable box to the AIW. Look in the menu of the box and see what the audio options are. 48Khz-16bit there? Make sure you are in stereo mode and are conecting F-L and F-R, not B-L and B-R to the AIW.

Good luck.

[skabio]

Well I tried everything you mentioned thrasimacus but still no go. I did fix the problem however. Well not really fix it. I'm now just capturing then de-multiplexing to remove the audio then fixing it with wavepro (works wonders) and then multiplexing it back together. Thanks for the help anyway. Updating my audio driver sure has helped with small amount of lost frames I had.