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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