If everything is configured correctly, it should be a complete digital transfer, without any connection to the outside world. It's not like recording with a microphone, there should be no noise coming in at all.

That's where I was having a problem. IIRC the only way I could detect a signal was using the soundboard setting using the TotalRecorder driver. I don't have the laptop here at work, so I'm not 100% sure on that. How was your setup on the one you mentioned earlier?

edit: Though I didn't investigate it much, is it possible to use the software setting and tell it to get it from the DVD player software? This seems it would be the optimal config, right?

Unless you turn it up to 11, of course.

That reminds me, when is someone going to hack the empeg to go to 11?