Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 08:27:13 +0000 From: Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk> To: bruno schwander <bschwand@dvart.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fxtv sound recording Message-ID: <3A1248E1.A6838DBC@cs.strath.ac.uk> References: <3A119302.80B42CEB@dvart.com>
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Hi Bruno > I have TV playback working great, sound and all, with fxtv. However, > whenever I try to record sound (whether alone or with video) fxtv > freezes. The UI freezes and I have to kill fxtv from another console. > I can than see a tiny raw sound file in the temp directory. > Video capture (no sound) works great (althought fxtv complains that the > compression script exited with a wrong return code, but I can run it > manually and it works.) There were a whole load of problems in FreeBSD 4.0 with the sound card drivers. And from what I can remember,recording on a Sound Blaster 16 was one of the problems. Just to give the history, FreeBSD 4.0 was the first release of FreeBSD to use the new sound drivers from Cameron Grant. (sometimes called the newpcm drivers) These drivers support all the new PCI based sound cards and are very good. But back at FreeBSD 4.0, there were a few problems. I see you had downloaded and installed my latest bt848 drivers. Unfortunatly I no not think there is an easy way to install the latest sound drivers on a 4.0 machine. So my only advice is to upgrade FreeBSD. FreeBSD 4.2 will be released on November 20th and has the latest sound card drivers. You can either wait until then, or you can try FreeBSD 4.1.1. If you want to do things properly you can always use CVS to get the latest 4.x-stable source and rebuild your kernel and userland programs from source. Roger To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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