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[John Meyer <john.l.meyer@xxxxxxxxx>]

Finally, I got it to work.  So far, the picture has been in black and
white, and slightly grainy, but it is now picking up channels.  Here's
what I did.

Went to /etc/modprobe.d/
Edited the tv file to add tuner=44.
Rebooted.


Right now I'm experimenting with the tuner to see which one is the best,
but right now I am up with my card.
Thanks to everybody for all the help.

John Meyer wrote:
> It's identifying itself as a bttv card, not ivtv.  And when I do a
> dmesg, I notice that the tuner is always set to 4, no matter what I do.
> Hans du Plooy wrote:
>> On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 10:07 -0700, John Meyer wrote:
>>> Playing /dev/video0.
>>> Cannot seek backward in linear streams!
>>> Seek failed
>>> Cannot seek backward in linear streams!
>> Shouldn't it be mplayer tv:// ?
> 
>> I do (for encoding):
> 
>> mencoder tv:// -tv
>> driver=v4l2:width=768:height=576:norm=pal:input=1:alsa:adevice=hw.1,0
> 
>> You may have to edit that to your taste.  Not sure if it's different
>> with ivtv.
> 
>> Hans
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