Re: Pinnacle PCTV Studio pro, bttv/tuner options needed: MT2032 tuner ?

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Jan-Marc Pilawa wrote:
> 
> Am Monday 26 August 2002 12:42 schrieben Sie:
> > Hello,
> >
> > On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 11:45:41 +0200, Jan-Marc Pilawa wrote:
> > > I tried to "convince" a recently bought "Pinnacle PCTV Studio pro" to
> > > work under linux/bttv but I had no success. Is there anyone who made
> [...]
> >
> > I just bought the same card, and am having (probably) the same problem.
> >
> > After fiddling around with the various card/tuner combinations, I found
> > out that *something* close to a mistuned TV could be obtained using the
> > tuner #33 (MT2032) (I am using the bttv driver from kernel 2.4.19).
> >
> > After a search on the net, it appears that Pinnacle is indeed using a
> > MT2032 tuner chip on the latest incarnations of the PCTV boards (see for
> > example http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/020627/270064_1.html ).
> 
> thanks for the hint, might be usefull...
> 
> >
> > So far, I have not been able to get a correctly tuned picture, and tools
> > like 'scantv' don't find any channel. Composite video, however, works
> > properly.
> >
> 
> I got some answers but all of them were using an "older" Version of the
> Pinnacle PCTV Studio pro. Most recent was s.o. with a Card bougt in April
> 2002. Mine is bought this month and I walked through all mathmatical
> combinations of card, tuner, pll. The card is working properly under
> windows and when using the composite-input. With MT2032-tuner module (33)
> I got some audio from one or another tv-channel but the picture looks
> "mistuned", more like green and sometimes colored noise. At some edges it
> looked a bit like an inverted video-signal. (Could it be possible that the
> wrong sideband is used?) Audio was also not very clear, but acceptable. I

Probably you need a similar routine as
in bttv-cards.c:bttv_tda9880_setnorm

MT2032 need a helper chip like TDA9880 to decode NTSC vs. PAL.

What other chips does your card have?





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