"Record from" Panel

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The "Record from" panel controls where to record the audio from.

Click on to expand the panel.


There are two combo boxes. The "Audio Device" combo box shows the audio recording hardware in your system. Normally it should only show the sound card. If you have 1394 capture card installed and a DV camcorder connected, you can see the DV camcorder here too.

Occasionally, your system would put your modem in this list too. You want your audio card selected in the "Audio Device" combo.

If you have built-in audio chipset on your motherboard, and added a PCI sound card later, it will show both in the "Audio Device" combo if you did not disable the motherboard audio. Please disable the built-in audio chipset according to your motherboard manual. Having both may cause conflicts.

The "Port" combo box shows a list of connection options on the sound card. This list is provided by the OS and audio driver. Most of the time, you should only care about the following connections. Note, different audio driver may give different names.

Microphone Mic The audio will be captured from the microphone port. Line-in Line In The audio will be captured from the Line-in port. Stereo Mix Mono Mix WAV WAV Out Mix The audio will be captured from the sound card's speakers. DV Camcorder The audio will be captured from DV camcorder, connected to your computer with a 1394 Firewire interface.

River Past Audio Capture is the only audio recording software which can record from DV camcorder.

Recording from Stereo Mix/Mono Mix/WAV is sometimes referred to as "Recording from speakers". It records whatever was send to the speakers by your sound card.

Use Stereo Mix/Mono Mix/WAV when you want to use River Past Audio Capture as a universal audio converter. For example, to convert RealMedia files (RM, RA), Choose "Stereo Mix" as the connection, click on "Record" button, and start playback in Real Player.

You can let the sound card adjust the volume automatically, or set the level manually. When "Manual" is selected, a slider is shown to the right. Use this slider to set the volume level.




Notes for Windows Vista Users:

If you don't see the Wave-Out option, you need to make sure it is enabled on Windows.

The Wave-Out should be enabled by default on Windows XP and earlier. You can verify it by:

1. Select your sound properties through the control panel or the sound icon in your system tray.

2. Click on the properties tab.

3. Check the recording box.

4. Make sure Wave Out Mix is selected.

It may be turned off on Windows Vista. To enable it:

1. Select sound from the control panel.

2. Select the recording tab.

3. Right click on the background of the tab and choose "show disabled devices."

4. Right click on Wave Out Mix and click enable.

If you don't see Wave-Out (or Stereo Mix, Mono Mix, WAV, Wav Mix, etc) in the Windows control panel, your sound card does not support this feature. Check with your sound card vendor for driver update.