[ale] Need help w/TV video capture

[Geoffrey]

Fulton Green wrote:
> UPDATE: looks like there is an issue with controlling the card's tuner,
> as opposed to the card's video I/O.  There's also an issue with the
> audio (which is separate from my computer's audio).

Yes, you must tell your modules what card you have and what tuner.  The 
bt878 requires a card=10.  Unfortunately, (or fortunately for me) SuSE 
configured my card automagically, and there are no entries in 
/etc/modules.conf as used to be required for my card.

Your best bet is to download the source for bttv driver and check out 
the docks that come with it.  They tell you how to set up the modules 
entries.  Just noticed I've got a version sitting on my drive.  Here's 
the example modules.conf goodies they provide:

# i2c
alias char-major-89 i2c-dev
options i2c-core    i2c_debug=1
options i2c-algo-bit    bit_test=1
 

# bttv
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0   bttv
options bttv        card=2 radio=1
options tuner       debug=1


You need the following mods as well:


tuner                  10536   1 (autoclean)
tvaudio                12900   0 (autoclean) (unused)
msp3400                17600   1 (autoclean)
bttv                   77984   1
i2c-algo-bit            8392   1 [bttv]
videodev                6176   5 [bttv mod_quickcam]
i2c-core               15336   0 [tuner tvaudio msp3400 bttv 		
		i2c-algo-bit i2c-isa it87 i2c-proc]


>>xawtv -c /dev/video1
> 
> 
> Actually, xawtv defaults to /dev/video0.

Oops correct, cause I've got two cameras on this box, the quickcam is 
/dev/video0...

> 
> UPDATE: I bit the bullet and installed the Windows drivers and basic
> app from KWorld.  Miraculously, they all worked.  So I booted back into
> Linux, and lo and behold, xawtv was showing video from the last channel!
> Unfortunately, further attempts to "turn the channel" in Linux proved
> fruitless.  Also, the TV card's audio out (which is actually a separate
> jack, to which I connected some cheap speakers) isn't playing through my
> speaker like it was in Windows.

See the references to tvaudio and i2c modules above.  You can change 
chanels with xawtv a couple of ways.  left click on the xawtv window and 
you'll get a channel window.  Also you can use the cursor arrows to 
change channels as well.  You'll get another useful window when you 
right click on xawtv.

> 
> 
>>When you say you don't have cable, what are you using for your reception 
>>device?  Antenna?
> 
> 
> Yes, antenna.   I'm hooking up through the coax interface.

Ouch, as long as you know you'll be getting a signal in, you should be good.

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