Re: Re: [suse-multimedia-e] TV tuner noisy audio

Hi, I have just found out from bttv list that because my card has a PAL-BG tuner and the TV standard in UK is PAL-I, I will not be able to tune into both image and sound at the same time. Reg

From: Mel Steinberg Date: Mon 23/Sep/2002 19:10 CEST To: reg@ryue.freeserve.co.uk, suse-multimedia-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-multimedia-e] TV tuner noisy audio

By the fact that you're able to get clear audio through tuning sounds like the connection is good. Are you absoulutely sure that you have the correct broadcast standard for the UK set in your preferences (Options>TV Norm in MoTV)? You might want to try deleting the existing .xawtv and .kwintvrc files from your /home directory and using YaST (I'm also running SuSE8.0) to reconfigure your TV card (there's a provision in it to match the selected card with different types of tuners mounted on it (PAL/NTSC/SECAM). Good Luck!

/mel

P.S. - You mentioned that you manually configured the card. Does YaST recognize it at all, with a different name? It could be that PixelView PlayTV is a name a distributor slapped on it, and YaST is identifying it under it's true identity. Just a thought.

reg@ryue.freeserve.co.uk wrote:

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Hi,

Unfortunately, there is no internal connector on my TV card.

However, I have tried fine tuning the channels and found the following: For most channels, if I increase the freq by 1 or 2 MHz, I can get a channel with very clear audio but no picture. I wonder if it is hardware problem or software (driver) problem.

Have anyone come across this problem or have a explanation for it?

By the way, I am using SuSE 8.0. The drivers, kwintv and motv are of the versions that come with the distribution.

Regards, Reg

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From: Mel Steinberg

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Date: Fri 20/Sep/2002 22:53 CEST To: reg@ryue.freeserve.co.uk CC: suse-multimedia-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-multimedia-e] TV tuner noisy audio

I had a similar problem when I installed a Pinnacle (Miro - in Europe) StudioPCTV Pro in my sister's computer. I got around it by using the internal connectors in both the tv card and the audio card, instead of the external 1/8" short stereo cable. I didn't have the same problem on my computer, but using the internal connection leaves the external line input free for recording, which is always handy.

/mel

reg@ryue.freeserve.co.uk wrote:

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Hi,

I have got a PixelView PlayTV Pro TV (mono) tuner card and have installed the driver modules through YaST (the exact card model was selected manually). When I try to watch TV in motv and kwintv after scanning the channels, the picture is quite clear but the audio is very noisy (I can hardly hear the original audio of the programme). Does anyone come across this problem or have any suggestions what I can do?

Regards, Reg

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