[raspberry-vi] Re: Issue with sound / no speech

  • From: Christopher Emery <cpe.list@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: raspberry-vi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 13:25:18 -0400

Hi Michael,
Thank you for your feed back it is greatly appreciated!

Sincerely in Christ,
Christopher

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Michael A. Ray <mike.ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hello Chris,
>
> The only way to get the sound to come out of the sound system on the
> host computer would be to plug it into the sound card on the host and
> run some kind of application on the host.
>
> But if you do this, be careful of the input level.  The line-in of the
> sound-card on the host machine only needs a low level drive and the
> output from the 3.5mm headphone jack on the Pi is likely to over-drive it.
>
> Another thing to do might be to mix the outputs from both the host and
> the Pi before they are passed to your headphones.  You could probably do
> this with a simple 'Y' connector but I don't really recommend trying to
> mix high-level audio.  Better to do it at a lower level.
>
> Mike


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