AverTV Studio Sound problems

[friendofphobos]

Hi All,

New to the forums and I am experiencing some weirdness with an AverTV Studio card.

Using the Aver software or PowerVCR 2 me volume comes in a really low levels. Last night I tried installing the ATI MMC software and the sound came in great but the picture was all screwy. Any suggestions or tips?

I am using the AverTV Studio Card on and new system that smokes in every other regard but capturing/playing sound with Dush Network TV.

Many Thanks,
FoP

[tik-tak]

What connections r u using? (coax or composite). Did you check latest media driver on windows update site?

[friendofphobos]

Last night I tried s-video and rca to audio and it seemed to help. I am still getting a big crack when I shut-down Power VCR 2 or the AverTv software.

All the latest drivers are installed and running and the recording volume is a-okay.

Any help is appreciated.

[gjt_micahel]

hi all

I recently isntall aver tv sterio card, vedio capturign and playback is fine,
Audio is fine while recording. There si no audio in playbak,
checkd with aver support, not much help, advises greatly appricated

[thegig]

It is most likely a driver problem (both problems). If you loaded DirectX drivers (or any games/programs that have sound/video drivers) AFTER loading the sound drivers, they stop working correctly. Aver is picky when it comes to things like that don't ask why. What OS/Video/etc. do you have? I fought for about a week before I got the audio to play in the playback, downloaded newest drivers - removed ALL audio drivers, reinstalled in a different pci slot. Found out it was conflicting with my ethernet card. It took several tries, but it eventually started working. Do a search in the forum, I know there is more info.

[Fozzee]

It's a problem with PowerVCR not your drivers.
If u search theses forums u will come across a registry hack for it. But i have never been able to get that to work properly.
If the sound quality is ok (just quiet) then raise the audio level when encoding ( I assume you encode after capturing ??)
I use TMPEnc there is an audio edit section. Alternatively u can split the mpeg to video + audio files then volume normalise using third party software.
Hope this helps

Fozzee

[lb113]

The capture card itself does not have sound capture capacity, that is why it comes with a cable to go from the card to your sound card line-in jack. Then when you capture the line-in volume control of you sound card along with the mute/volume control of the AverTV app.

If you want to use some other app for capture or TV recording you can use VirtualVCR. It worked for me. but I had to guess as to the country code on the tuner section and this only works if you are using the WDM drivers. It will allow you to capture in raw (YUY2) or other formats and allow you to select a software codec for output compression.

I could not get the ATI MMC stuff to work with the tuner card and neither virtualDub or FreeVCR.

The standard tools for the card seem to only capture to MPEG 1 or 2. You can select bitrate if you want to customize that.

[AHaxton]

friendofphobos,

I was thinking of getting the Avertv Stero card (same as avertv studio except witout remote and radio) well I have directv will I be able to use this card. U have dish network which looks exactly the same as directv except different name and different guide look. So what do u ue to connect ur satellite to the tuner?

Thanks.

[friendofphobos]

I am finally getting nice captures.

I have to reinstall my video and audio drivers after installing anything but it seems worth it.

I am running s-video connections from the receiver to the avertv card and audio directly from the receiver's audio out to the line-in on the sound card.

As far as capturing goes everythig is perfect but with the audio going directly to the line-in on the sound card I have to turn off the receiver whenever the computer is on or i get a nonstop audio feed from the line-in.

Now I'm just playing with different formats.