Line-In signal from satellite receiver too loud

[Chetwood]

Again:

win2k
winTV go
Soundblaster PCI 64

I'm new this capturing thing and I've read a lot of guides but I've found nothing about my following problem: I connected my satellite receiver's audio out (cinch) to my soundcard's line-in and I get the sound from it, fine. Unfortnately I cannot change the incoming sound volume but only the volume when I listen to it. So when I listen to it I set it to very low and it's ok but when I capture the video and audio it skips all the time since it is far too loud.

I've checked the win2k mixer settings but the line-in signal is almost down to zero. For a test I tried to switch to another incoming source but I still had the video sound signal no matter which other select box (micro) I checked. So obviously I cannot influence the source nor the volume of it. How come and what can I do to change it? TIA!

[mpucoder]

In the mixer pull down options, click on properties, then select "recording", then OK. Now you will be adjusting the record levels.

[Kedirekin]

You don't accidentally have it plugged into the microphone jack, do you? The microphone jack responds to signal strengths around 1 millivolt. Line out from the reciever should be something like 150 millivolts.

You want to plug it in to aux in.

[Chetwood]

@ mpucoder

Certainly I was in the _record_ settings dialogue and no, I can't change record levels.

@Kedirekin

I've just verified it, it's defititely plugged into the Aux-In.

That's why I so bugged about it...

[aldonix]

I had similar problem. It sounds weird, but Volume control tweaking did not give me any response on the recording level (recording through line-in). The only thing which could change the recording volume, was VirtualDub volume meter,- including recording through 3rd party software like CoolEdit.

Aldonix

[Cart]

Have you played with AudioSel.exe (available on the Hauppauge driver CD)? Also, make sure that line-in and only line-in is enabled as the recording source in both Windows' mixer and your sound card's mixer (if applicable).

-Cart
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