I have a tv card which uses a BT878 chip... I know that it is possible to get this to work but I seem to be going round in circles.. I have tried xtvscreen, xawtv and kwintv and the best I have managed so far is a wonderful picture but the same picture on every channel- none of which had any sound. I have decided to start afresh, uninstalled all of the above and start again, before I do so, has anybody really managed to get this to work well ? its the only reason now for booting windows up and I would love to get rid of it totally. being in the UK, I assume that I should be using PAL-europe, also in the driver/Makefile for bttv it asks for the tuner type, how do I determine that ? many thanks Pete -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Pete I'll assume its a Hauppage card. I have one and it does work. Kwintv is the one to use. If you've got as far as it asking you to scan for programmes you must insmod tuner first, then it should scan. Use PAL Europe. You can set the tuner type in etc/modules/conf, uncomment the bttv line and if you have the same card as me change tuner to 10. Info on tuner types etc is in usr/doc/packages/bttv, I can't remember exactly where, one of the readmes I think. If all that fails run kwintv from an xterm and see whether it asks you to change the vidmem value. If it does the add the value suggested to the bttv tuner line in etc/modules/conf. If al that fails you can recomplie the kernel to include thte BT878 module but that shouldn't be necessarry. Sound : check the audio tab in kwintv, mute audio should be turned off. Mike Pete Atkinson wrote:
I have a tv card which uses a BT878 chip... I know that it is possible to get this to work but I seem to be going round in circles.. I have tried xtvscreen, xawtv and kwintv and the best I have managed so far is a wonderful picture but the same picture on every channel- none of which had any sound. I have decided to start afresh, uninstalled all of the above and start again, before I do so, has anybody really managed to get this to work well ? its the only reason now for booting windows up and I would love to get rid of it totally. being in the UK, I assume that I should be using PAL-europe, also in the driver/Makefile for bttv it asks for the tuner type, how do I determine that ?
many thanks
Pete
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Pete Atkinson wrote:
I have a tv card which uses a BT878 chip... I know that it is possible to get this to work but I seem to be going round in circles.. I have tried xtvscreen, xawtv and kwintv and the best I have managed so far is a wonderful picture but the same picture on every channel- none of which had any sound. I have decided to start afresh, uninstalled all of the above and start again, before I do so, has anybody really managed to get this to work well ? its the only reason now for booting windows up and I would love to get rid of it totally. being in the UK, I assume that I should be using PAL-europe, also in the driver/Makefile for bttv it asks for the tuner type, how do I determine that ?
many thanks
Pete I think you tuner is on of type= 5: Philips PAL tuner 0: Temic PAL tuner 1: Philips PAL_I tuner 7: Temic PAL tuner I got this from /usr/doc/packages/bttv/. I have a Wintv PCI bus card working fine. I could never get the bttv stuff working with it compiled into the kernel. I was too impatient to find where to put the tuner type in. I load the modules. I think all you have to do is put some stuff like this in /etc/conf.modules: (somebody please correct this I'm probably wrong!) options bttv card=7 ## your card options ic2 i2c_debug=1 options tuner type=2 ## PAL is something else alias char-major-81 bttv and do a depmod -a. I'm still a newbie so I could be wrong. In fact when I got my card working I didn't even know about depmod and used a script in /sbin/init.d/rc3.d/ called S23TV: #Loading modules for a Hauppuage 404 echo "Loading i2c Module" insmod i2c echo "Loading TV tuner Module for NTSC" insmod tuner debug=1 type=2 echo "Loading bttv Module for Hauppauge WinTV PCI 404" echo " With New bt878 chip" insmod bttv card=10 This probably isn't the proper way to load the modules, but it works. I compile my kernel without bttv support but with support for video for Linux and use the stock modules. The card works much better in Linux. It has very little overhead. -btm77 -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
I've just set up a Hauppage PCI/NICAM card in the last couple of days. here are the settings that i use. I've built the video drivers as modules. Here's the script i load them with #!/bin/bash rmmod bttv rmmod msp3400 rmmod tuner rmmod i2c rmmod videodev # insmod videodev insmod i2c scan=1 i# i2c_debug=1 insmod tuner type=5 # debug=1 insmod msp3400 # debug=2 insmod bttv vidmem=0xe60 radio=0 card=10 pll=0 # (I used this whilst looking for the correct settings, hence all the unloads and debugs). I've used xawtv and kwintv. Here is the .xawtv file. I discovered that I needed to fine tune by a couple of points to get the sound working. --------------[start .xawtv] norm = PAL capture = on source = Television freqtab = pal-europe pixsize = 128 x 96 jpeg-quality = 75 [ITV] channel = 23 fine = +2 key=3 [BBC1] channel = 26 fine = +2 key=1 [Channel4] channel = 30 fine = +2 key=4 [BBC2] channel = 33 fine = +2 key=2 [Channel5] channel = 37 fine = +3 key=5 ----------[end of .xawtv] HTH Tim On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, Pete Atkinson wrote:
I have a tv card which uses a BT878 chip... I know that it is possible to get this to work but I seem to be going round in circles.. I have tried xtvscreen, xawtv and kwintv and the best I have managed so far is a wonderful picture but the same picture on every channel- none of which had any sound. I have decided to start afresh, uninstalled all of the above and start again, before I do so, has anybody really managed to get this to work well ? its the only reason now for booting windows up and I would love to get rid of it totally. being in the UK, I assume that I should be using PAL-europe, also in the driver/Makefile for bttv it asks for the tuner type, how do I determine that ?
many thanks
Pete
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Thanks Tim et al... So far, I have set the card up as a type 10 (hauppauge) although on inspecting the card itself it has a sticky label with MM205PCTV on it.. Anyway, I can now scan back amd forth although the picture is not excellent but the main prob is now the sound - there isn't any (all mixers etc are ok) Pete Tim Harris wrote:
I've just set up a Hauppage PCI/NICAM card in the last couple of days.
here are the settings that i use.
I've built the video drivers as modules.
Here's the script i load them with #!/bin/bash rmmod bttv rmmod msp3400 rmmod tuner rmmod i2c rmmod videodev # insmod videodev insmod i2c scan=1 i# i2c_debug=1 insmod tuner type=5 # debug=1 insmod msp3400 # debug=2 insmod bttv vidmem=0xe60 radio=0 card=10 pll=0 #
(I used this whilst looking for the correct settings, hence all the unloads and debugs).
I've used xawtv and kwintv. Here is the .xawtv file.
I discovered that I needed to fine tune by a couple of points to get the sound working.
--------------[start .xawtv] norm = PAL capture = on source = Television
freqtab = pal-europe pixsize = 128 x 96 jpeg-quality = 75
[ITV] channel = 23 fine = +2 key=3
[BBC1] channel = 26 fine = +2 key=1
[Channel4] channel = 30 fine = +2 key=4
[BBC2] channel = 33 fine = +2 key=2
[Channel5] channel = 37 fine = +3 key=5 ----------[end of .xawtv]
HTH
Tim
On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, Pete Atkinson wrote:
I have a tv card which uses a BT878 chip... I know that it is possible to get this to work but I seem to be going round in circles.. I have tried xtvscreen, xawtv and kwintv and the best I have managed so far is a wonderful picture but the same picture on every channel- none of which had any sound. I have decided to start afresh, uninstalled all of the above and start again, before I do so, has anybody really managed to get this to work well ? its the only reason now for booting windows up and I would love to get rid of it totally. being in the UK, I assume that I should be using PAL-europe, also in the driver/Makefile for bttv it asks for the tuner type, how do I determine that ?
many thanks
Pete
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