I got second-hand TV-card, box saying brand is 'Fairway Televisions
Solution' and model 'TV-Connect'. (Nothing usefull there...)
Card has connectors for TV-antenna, remote controller, audio out,
Composite video in and S-Video in. Apparenly there is another model
available with FM-radio, at least acording the manual.
Card has Bt878KHF, one VRD866B (vhat this is?) and one HEF4052BT. Tuner is
'FI1216 Mk2/PH hm'. Card PCP says 878TV (Rev 3E).
Bt878 GPIO pin 3 is connected to somewhere, and pins 8-15 to VRD866B.
Card shows picture fine for example with card=10 tuner=5, but can't
get audio out.
I tried to run script loading bttv module with all available
card-parameters, setting tuner manually to 5. Cards 11,37,52,74 got
some audio output during script, but some of them had no picture. And
sound was very low level, with lots of noise. And trying same card
again didn't give so good results, somehow sequence of probing got
some sensible values?
So, I tried to run all GPIOMASK/AUDIOALL values which made sense. This
is my script:
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#!/bin/bash
for i in `seq 0 255` ; do
rmmod bttv tuner
sleep 2
hex=`echo "obase=16;$i" | bc`
insmod /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/media/video/bttv.o card=10 tuner=5 bttv_verbose=2 gpiomask=0xff0f audioall=0x${hex}00 bttv_gpio=1
v4lctl setstation 1
ffmpegrec -ff vcd -F 75 -o /cddata/tmp/testaa_bttv_${i}_a.mpg
sleep 2
rmmod bttv tuner
sleep 2
insmod /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/media/video/bttv.o card=10 tuner=5 bttv_verbose=2 gpiomask=0xff0f audioall=0x${hex}0F bttv_gpio=1
v4lctl setstation 1
ffmpegrec -ff vcd -F 75 -o /cddata/tmp/testaa_bttv_${i}_b.mpg
sleep 2
done
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However, not so good results. Computer started to get unstable:
progragms like xemacs, mozilla died, EXT3 on root partition dropped
journal, and finally got kernel panic. After boot manual fsck was
needed, and re-install of xlibs. Second try something simalr results.
No I don't have guts to repeat it, I have to earn my living with that
computer...
I'm running kernel 2.4.20, with bttv 0.7.96. Computer is Duron 1.2G
with Asus A7a266e mainboard.
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M. Tavasti / tavasti@xxxxxx / +358-40-5078254
