On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 21:51 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
Because audio cabling is static and audio devices are at the same
stage
today as non-networked printers were two decade ago. There are systems
connected to audio devices by virtue of being near the audio devices,
and there is no 1:1 relashionship between the user sitting on the local
system in the current dekstop session and the user making use of audio
devices.
It's perfectly legitimate to have a desktop system sitting in the living
room that simultaneously plays a DVD for one user on the TV/projector
output, records analog video for another through PVR card, while a third
is connected in dekstop session and checks his mails or does some quick
browsing.
The problem that you're discussing centers more around poorly designed
video capture cards than audio capability. The Hauppage PVR-150 and
PVR-350 cards (and probably others) don't require the use of the sound
card to record audio.
Dave