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I've only ever seen a medion from the outside, but It had the usual pink and green sockets for the onboard sound, and an extra "bay" with the white/red/yellow sockets, plus a card reqader and USB. I will proceed from assumptions made, but It will give you some avenues to try.
Pink/green sockets were seperate from the bay. I assume that if connected, they are connected to the onboard Realtek.
The medion comes with a built in tv tuner/capture card. The bay connects to this. The fact a yellow "video in" exists, would confirm it.
Would you attempt to remove the side panel? Just a visual check of the interior is all. You wouldn't need to go inside it.
The reason is that you could try to follow the wiring back from the pink socket and see if it actually mated with the board.
In any case, were you to plug the microphone into the rear pink socket, it should work, assuming all is well with the audio, which you explained seems ok.
So, plug the mic in the back and try it out. You may need to visit the audio settings and make sure "microphone" isn't muted. The audio device would be Realtek. Does it produce sound from the speakers? If yes, try the front socket instead. yes or no?
If yes, the front socket is correctly connected. If not, it either isn't properly wired, (needs a visual check) or the bios in your PC may have the option of which sound switching method to use.
There are two. AC 97, which is the older one, and HD audio, which is the newer. The wrong bios setting, if it exists, may cause problems.
The front bay will be connected to the tv card/video capture.
Red/White are the stereo audio inputs. Line level, which means a microphone will not usually work. Some might, but that's another story. They are designed to connect a radio tuner, tape deck etc, anything with line outputs on it. Or, in conjunction with the video in, a camera, or video recorder etc. BTW, if a "S-VHS" socket exists, the quality will be better than plain video in.
ok, so now to your applications. If you select Realtek audio, you will get what would normally be heard from the speakers. Including the mic.
If you select Medion BDA, you will get anything fed into the front bay.
Unless the app you use has it's own mixer, I doubt you will get the mic and front audio simultaneously. As a workaround for that, you could use the rear line in socket (normally blue). This would enable you to record a video, have a backing track, or effects, and narrate over the top. Note that the input is a 3.5mm socket, same as the mic.
I've never seen inside a Medion. Remember it's all assumption. Let me know how you get on sara
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Last edited by Disk_Contented : 06-09-2008 at 09:19 PM.
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