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After I tried Breakaway for a couple of days and with varius applications as Winamp, WMplayer, DivXPlayer, CyberlinkPowerDVD, I found it working great with all of them except for my TV card. This is my system setup:
Sound card: Sounblaster Live 5.1 (PCI).
TV card: Pinnacle PCTV Pro 5.50 (PCI).
The audio output of the TV card is connected to the line-in of the sound card with a short cable (stereo jack).
GUI: Pinnacle PCTV Vision.
OS: Windows XP SP2.When in default the PCTV Vision audio mixer settings are:
-Device: SB Live Audio
-TV playback input: Line-in
-Sound recording input: Line-in
everything works fine.But when I change device to
-Device: Breakaway Pipeline 1
-TV playback input: Wave/Mp3, SW Synth, CD Player (only these 3 options)
-Sound recording input: SPDIF Interface, Line, Microphone (only these 3 options)
I tried all these options but I didn’t get to make it work right. There is sound but Breakaway sliders no affect and meters not responding. Also the PCTV Vision’s (GUI’s) volume slider no affect. Only the windows’ taskbar master volume affects the audio.
Any solutions on how to make TV audio (line-in audio) pass through Breakaway? Thanks in advance.Hi Mandelmantis!
Good problem description, I see exactly what’s going on.
Breakaway only catches audio that comes from programs – not from the sound card.
Your TV card isn’t playing the audio through Windows the way normal programs do – instead, feeding it directly to the sound card. Therefore, it completely bypasses Breakaway.
The only workaround solution I could think of would be to use a separate program to get the audio from the sound card input, and then play it into the Breakaway Pipeline, so that Breakaway can intercept it and send it to the sound card output. However, this will likely cause too much delay to be usable.
I’ve seen some TV cards where it’s possible to choose what route the audio should take — either directly to the sound card, or through DirectSound (which means it’d be going through the Windows). If there is such an option on yours, then that should take care of it.
///Leif
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