Help again - WAS Re: [ILUG] cheap linux compatible tv tuner cards

[Pangurban]

Thank you Gavin

I have the card working now.

By the way

options saa7134 card=3 tuner=1
Is what I put in /etc/modprobe.d/saa7134

Got it to tune using scantv as you recommended

Had my first success with mplayer from the command line - is the a TV
GUI for mplayer?

Can't get TvTime to work - and it crashes the machine.

but at least I can confirm that the card works in Dapper Drake with
those options.


Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Pangurban wrote:
>
>   
>> Has anyone got the card from Maplin - Mercury ( www.kobian.com ->
>> http://www.mercury-pc.com/product-detail.php?link=p-addcards&subtitle=Add-On%20Cards&productid=97)
>> card to work.
>>
>> I have been trying.  It is on Dapper Drake and with Compiz - and My
>> various attempts have only gotten TvTime to produce a screen with a few
>> slanted bars of "interference" - with no menus.
>>     
>
> Judging by dmesg/lspci linux has correctly detected the card and set up the
> driver.  
>
> You may need to tune the channels in.  I'd recommend using xawtv's scantv
> or tvtime's tvtime-scanner to do this.  Obviously you need an aeriel hooked
> up while doing that.
>
> I generally used xawtv to test the card was working, but tvtime should work
> much the same.  If you try it with xawtv, pay particular attention to the
> devices you point it at (ie make sure they exist, are the correct ones and
> you have rw permission to them):
>   
>        -c, -device device
> 	      set video4linux device (default is /dev/video0).  This option
>               also disables Xvideo support.
>               Resource: xawtv.device (string).
>        -C, -dspdev device
>               set audio device (default is /dev/dsp).
>               Resource: xawtv.dspdev (string).
>        -vbidev device
>               set vbi device (default is /dev/vbi).
>               Resource: xawtv.vbidev (string).
>
> When I use scantv, I use the command 
>
> 	scantv -C /dev/vbi0 >.xawtv
>
> then am prompted for a country (Ireland) and tv system (PAL) at which point
> it goes into scanning, giving the output below while writing channels to
> .xawtv.  
> 	
> 	scanning channel list ireland...
> 	A0   ( 45.75 MHz): no station
> 	
>
> It's a reasonably good test to see if it's able to tune channels.  If you
> start xawtv and right/left click on the screen there are options to browse
> channels.
>
> Gavin
>
>   


Regards,


Brian