Volume to high when Capture with ATI Radeon AIW 7500

[pighead]

When capturing MPEGs with the AIW I have the volume way too high on the captures, I set the mixer volume on line in down to no avail and I try adjusting the volume within the ATI apps, still no joy.

I have had my brother confirm the same issue with hi ATI 8500dv and he solved it by buying an external mixer and lowering the input way low.

Is there something we are missing, video is good quality.

[next]

You need to set the line in volume for recording. It looks like you have been trying to adjust the line in volume for playback. Try this:

Right click the speaker icon in your system tray.

Click "open volume control"

Click "options" then click "properties"

Now click adjust volume control for "recording" Click "ok"

Look at your line in slider (or what you are using for sound input). Here is where you adjust for recording volume. Play around with it until you get to where you want to be.

[pighead]

Thanx Next,

I tried that also I switched to Mic in also with the same result, my VIAO has a built in sound card, but I could swap it out for a PCI saound card and see if that makes a diff!

[next]

This may be of some help:

http://mirror.ati.com/support/faq/sound.html

It is enough of a general problem to warrant the link at ATI. Good luck and keep us posted.

[next]

Thanx Next,

I tried that also I switched to Mic in also with the same result, my VIAO has a built in sound card, but I could swap it out for a PCI saound card and see if that makes a diff!

Just a general comment - you may not get the results you are looking for using onboard sound. Also using your mic input is not suggested because this input is amplified in many cases.

[next]

Try muting all of your volume controls in your recording volume. See what happens. You should have no sound on your recording. If this is the case then unmute until you find the right control.

[Alan69]

Pighead,

Also be sure you actually DID try what he said. You said you 'tried that already' fast, not sure you actually read through and did it. Once you've got the slider panel up there is a totally different set for recording that you have to change to for recording. Just reading this cold it sounds like you may have been adjusting just the playback line in control, and said you did that already when you started reading his instructions, without noting that that extra step takes you to a *different* set of controls that DOES adjust the record level not the playback.

You may well have done this and been adjusting the recording set, just also sounds like you also might not have even though you thought you'd already done what he said. Make sure you go to the options properties and switch the control set to recording..

That said, some motherboard built in stuff is junk, woudn't be surprised to find some that just don't work on this even if they have the control etc.

[pighead]

[You may well have done this and been adjusting the recording set, just also sounds like you also might not have even though you thought you'd already done what he said. Make sure you go to the options properties and switch the control set to recording.. ]

Thanx Alan,

I understand what ya mean, I went over it gain to make sure I was adjusting the "recording sliders" in the windows mixer. I have other methods of capture (DV-Pass-through then TMPEG to post encode) so I'm not in a bind...just would like to do real-time MPEG2 capture....I won't give up (I'm not obsessed!?)

I'll keep all advised about my progress or lack of!

[Craig Tucker]

I have the same card and had this problem, it was nothing to do with adjusting the line in volume or onboard sound. The volume was so loud it would actually clip. The only way I managed to fix it was to actually format my hard drive and reinstall the card with the latest drivers from ATI's website. Real pain in the arse but it worked.

[pighead]

[I have the same card and had this problem, it was nothing to do with adjusting the line in volume or onboard sound. The volume was so loud it would actually clip. The only way I managed to fix it was to actually format my hard drive and reinstall the card with the latest drivers from ATI's website. Real pain in the arse but it worked.]


Thanx Craig,

I have another machine I was building anyway, might as well do it right! I'll put the ATI in the new box and get the new drivers and se where it takes me.

[scttkc]

Here's what worked for me with this problem:

Open TV, then open mixer, adjust recording level for mic or line-in (mic here) WAY low--mine is between 0 and first notch, make sure whichever line your using has check in 'Selected', close mixer, close TV.

Now when you open TV your recording level should be preserved. The reason it looks like it doesn't work (adjusting mixer) if done when TV is not open is MMC restores previous settings on start and exit.

Good luck!

[pighead]

[Open TV, then open mixer, adjust recording level for mic or line-in (mic here) WAY low--mine is between 0 and first notch, make sure whichever line your using has check in 'Selected', close mixer, close TV.]

Thanks scttkc,

I'll go and give it a try when I get home...this would good if it works

[mastersmurfie]

my VIAO has a built in sound card

try this post...it might have some useful info...

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=171889

[abrakadabra]

I also had the same problem with my AIW Radeon
But now its fixed

What I did was done in registry, as I havent found any other way to adjust the recording volume and make it stick between sessions of using ATI MMC

I have made a text file called "ATIsound.reg" and whenever I start it, the volume is set to a level that does not distort, but this I do not do often.

I will give you all its content, you can copy this into your own file or use the values to modify registry manually if you know how. Problem is I have only used it on WinXP, and not 2k or ME/98, so if that is what you have, you may have do it manually.

The values are hex, and the volume value I use is 500 in deci numbers

Here it comes:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ATI Technologies\MultiMedia\Features\TV\Sound]
"User RecVol"=dword:00000001
"Record Volume"=dword:000001f4

[pighead]

I also had the same problem with my AIW Radeon
But now its fixed

What I did was done in registry, as I havent found any other way to adjust the recording volume and make it stick between sessions of using ATI MMC

I have made a text file called "ATIsound.reg" and whenever I start it, the volume is set to a level that does not distort, but this I do not do often.

I will give you all its content, you can copy this into your own file or use the values to modify registry manually if you know how. Problem is I have only used it on WinXP, and not 2k or ME/98, so if that is what you have, you may have do it manually.

The values are hex, and the volume value I use is 500 in deci numbers

Here it comes:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ATI Technologies\MultiMedia\Features\TV\Sound]
"User RecVol"=dword:00000001
"Record Volume"=dword:000001f4

Thank you, I'll give this a go and post the results!

[PlasticDVDr]

I had this problem as well as a high pitched sound every few minutes when encoding...

The best way to solve this problem is to connect your 7500 AIW directory to your sound card internally with an aux cable which you can pick up at any computer store if one wasn't provided with your video card, sound card, or cd/dvd drive...

Look at the top of your AIW card, you should see a small four pronged slot with "AUX" written above it, look for a similiar slot on the top of your sound card, it will be located next to several other slots like "pdif", "CD", etc...

This will also allow you to plug other things into your sound card through the input line.

[pighead]

I had this problem as well as a high pitched sound every few minutes when encoding...

The best way to solve this problem is to connect your 7500 AIW directory to your sound card internally with an aux cable which you can pick up at any computer store if one wasn't provided with your video card, sound card, or cd/dvd drive...

Look at the top of your AIW card, you should see a small four pronged slot with "AUX" written above it, look for a similiar slot on the top of your sound card, it will be located next to several other slots like "pdif", "CD", etc...

This will also allow you to plug other things into your sound card through the input line.

Thanx, I have alot of fixes to try one by one...I'm sure atleast one will get it done!

[abrakadabra]

I am sorry, but but there were introduced an error on the post I made yesterday. Those who isn't familiar with registry might get a problem.

The line starting with [HKEY_CURRENT
and the next line ending with Features\TV\Sound]
should be on one line, and was shown as such in preview

If you use cut and paste from my post, it should come out correctly.


As for hookup for sound, I always connect the audio directly to the sound card, and I always use an external digital cable tuner connected with SVHS cable when capturing TV

[overloaded_ide]

I've only had the opposite problem so far, sometimes low volume when capturing, but most the time it is fine. I probably just mee it up when playing movies or cds.

I too have the ATI AIW radeon 7500, with MMC 8 (I think) newest drivers ect.. and the macro patche.

My onlyproblem now is my timer does not shut off the capture, like the energizer bunny it keeps going and going and....

I got a 90 minute movie and 5 hrs black screen one day

[almostaborted]

i get the opposite problem

everything was working fine until tonight when i installed a new hard drive into my computer...since i was out of ide controllers i went ahead and installed the hard drive in the raid controller believing it would operate as a normal ide drive

once i did this it killed my sound only when i try to watch tv and capture....now i don't know what to do.....

[almostaborted]

holy shit i am a dope....since i was fooling around in the dark yesterday i realized i plugged the video card output into the wrong jack on the sound card...i knew this was more hardware related than software since i could play mp3s just fine........

Hi friends,

I have EXACTLY the opposite problem, I mean, too low volume when capturing with my AiW 8500DV

My audio card is a Creative Live Platinum,

Please, can anyone give me more detailed instructions on how to use the fix settings that "abrakadabra" posted here :

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ATI Technologies\MultiMedia\Features\TV\Sound]
"User RecVol"=dword:00000001
"Record Volume"=dword:000001f4

HOW CAN I USE IT ?

Must I copy/paste it into windows register ? But how to make it ?
Do I need a separate program to make it work ?

Also, does it realluy mkae any diference to use the internal or external cable connection ?

Thanks, any help will be very apreciated, it's now many months without a solution and I've been going crazy, definitely

Thanks,

Andre

[non-linear]

I wouldn't recommend using the registry setting. Your levels may vary from that (in my case, the level that setting uses is way too low). All it does is change the playback volume, which can be done using the playback control (in Win95/98, the speaker icon in the taskbar).

I recommend changing the playback and record volume settings to find the right combination for you. Set the playback volume to about 3/4 of the way, then adjust the record volume, then test capture. Listen to the audio from the test and adjust your record and playback levels until you find a good setting. You may have to capture the audio a little low, then boost it later in order to capture and not get distorted levels.

Good luck.

[FOO]

I have had the situation where you set the line-in record level,
then start capture , and ATI would go change it !
How irritating. The only way I fixed that was
diddling the registry.

I doesn't seem to be doing that with MMC8.5

[Gees]

Foo - you know how to do that? This person was asking: https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=672734#672734 if that's possible.

[FOO]

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

Somebody sent me a PM about it. They should have just posted.

Other people have inquiring minds, they wanna know.

I wouldn't recommend using the registry setting. Your levels may vary from that (in my case, the level that setting uses is way too low). All it does is change the playback volume, which can be done using the playback control (in Win95/98, the speaker icon in the taskbar).

I recommend changing the playback and record volume settings to find the right combination for you. Set the playback volume to about 3/4 of the way, then adjust the record volume, then test capture. Listen to the audio from the test and adjust your record and playback levels until you find a good setting. You may have to capture the audio a little low, then boost it later in order to capture and not get distorted levels.

Good luck.

Do you mean that one slider might interfere with another ?

I always use to keep all sliders, for both playback and record, at maximum level.....

Does it make any diference if I reduce the output level ? Should it benefit the Line-in volume ?

Thanks

[quote="pighead"]

I had this problem as well as a high pitched sound every few minutes when encoding...

The best way to solve this problem is to connect your 7500 AIW directory to your sound card internally with an aux cable which you can pick up at any computer store if one wasn't provided with your video card, sound card, or cd/dvd drive...

Look at the top of your AIW card, you should see a small four pronged slot with "AUX" written above it, look for a similiar slot on the top of your sound card, it will be located next to several other slots like "pdif", "CD", etc...

This will also allow you to plug other things into your sound card through the input line.

Does anyone have further details about it ?

Does it really work better to make the internal connection ?

Thanks

[dvcd]

The problem "Volume to high when Capture with ATI AIW" happens only in win95/98/me.
Solution: upgrate to win2000 or winxp.