Please excuse what may be a dumb question.
I have a Leadtek winfast 2000 XP TV card and sound works fine using the loopback cable out of the back and into the soundcard. However, I am hoping to put together the highest quality system possible and I have read reports from people with other cards who report better quality using the btaudio module to get (what I assume is) sound directly from the card.
Can anyone please confirm that this is what happens, ie with many Hauppage cards you can get sound directly from the card without the loopback cable, and also that this is a much higher quality solution?
Also how would I determine whether I can do that with my card? I have taken the card out and there are no obvious chips with the correct word, however, is this a good test? "insmod btaudio" works, but nothing obvious appears as a result. What should happen if I had (say) a hauppage card? Would a /dev/dsp1 device appear? Or is it only exposed to the bttv driver which needs to pass it back to the OS in some way...?
Also has anyone noticed any cards which happen to have particularly high picture and sound quality with TV? (above the norm)
Thanks for any advice.
I have a Leadtek winfast 2000 XP TV card and sound works fine using the loopback cable out of the back and into the soundcard. However, I am hoping to put together the highest quality system possible and I have read reports from people with other cards who report better quality using the btaudio module to get (what I assume is) sound directly from the card.
Can anyone please confirm that this is what happens, ie with many Hauppage cards you can get sound directly from the card without the loopback cable, and also that this is a much higher quality solution?
Also how would I determine whether I can do that with my card? I have taken the card out and there are no obvious chips with the correct word, however, is this a good test? "insmod btaudio" works, but nothing obvious appears as a result. What should happen if I had (say) a hauppage card? Would a /dev/dsp1 device appear? Or is it only exposed to the bttv driver which needs to pass it back to the OS in some way...?
Also has anyone noticed any cards which happen to have particularly high picture and sound quality with TV? (above the norm)
Thanks for any advice.