Need Help with Audio + Video Capture from my 721

[Nightmare]

My first 721 has a one of the tuners failing. I have about 50 Hours of programs saved and I want to get them off the HDD. I have a Nvidia FX 5200 Personal Cinema and an ATI 9700 All in WOnder, but I'm having trouble getting the audio. I have a Shuttle PC that I'm using to capture the Shows off my PVR. I would like to get the best Video and Audio. I have the S-Video and the SPDIF Connected (this is a Shuttle SN45G with a FX 5200 Personal Cinema card). I have the TV connected and can us the TV as a monitor. I can watch TV through the PC (on the TV). I get the audio and video fine. As soon as I start to record the audio stops. I capture the video, with no sound. I can connect the audio to the "Line-In" but there is noise on the line and is sounds crappy. I have tried all the listed audio inputs (Video, Microphone, Line-In, Mono, Stereo, and CD audio) none of them seem to help. I tried the Window Movie Maker and the Studio 8 software and I can't seem to find a way to set the SPDIF as the audio "source", its not an option.

Thanks
Nightmare

[scooper]

I would suggest you get some better patch cables and/or move your PC and the 721 closer to each other - well away from any AC interfernce sources. I'm running patch cables 25 feet from my satellite receivers to my PC's WinTV PVR250 from Hauppage and I get EXCELLENT results on video capture.

[Nightmare]

What is your setup? Mobo, which input, etc.

The Video looks good (is has some flickering, but I think changing the refresh rate will fix that). Its the sound that is the problem, and I don't know of any "high-end" stereo cables (the ones for the line input).

[scooper]

Don't need no "high end" audio cables - these are Radio Shack's put-together 25 footers. I do use an RG59 cable (with RCA ends) for the composite video input, RG6 for the RF input.

My mobo - ANCIENT (by today's standards) AOpen Intel 440BX chipset (CPU is PIII 600), ATI 7000 Radeon VE AGP(32MB RAM) , SB PCI512.
No problems at all. I can use either the Line In (for stereo from satellite) or RF (for OTA / mono ). Both audio and video input go to the Hauppage card. Mobo has UDMA33 builtin, but I'm using a UDMA100 diskcontroller for the harddrives (1 30 GB for OS / applications, 1 80 GB for video / audio files - both drives on the same channel)

[Allen Noland]

I've had this problem before using Windows Media 9 encoder. See if you have a "What you Here" option. That worked for me.

[Nightmare]

It sounds like it might be an issue with the NForce 2 chipset. I'll try a couple other programs and see I can fix it. If not then I'll try the FX Personal Cinema in another one of my PCs