On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 08:52:23AM -0600, Billy Biggs wrote: > Martyn J. Pearce (fluffy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx): > > > However, although I'm now recieving input (and of reasonable quality, > > I think), I'm recieving black & white only :-( That is, using xawtv or > > tvtime, only setting TV Standard to PAL Nc works nicely. Normal PAL > > is unwatchable. This is with a PAL tape in a PAL video (I'm in the > > UK). I've tried tinkering with the frame rate under tvtime (I can't > > see how to with xawtv), but to no avail. Mplayer just barfs without > > any output. > > > > Again, pointers, ideas, or even outright solutions, I'd be most > > grateful. > > Post the output of dmesg showing bttv and tuner's initialization, > that's a good place to start. Certainly: ------------------------------------ i2c-algo-bit.o: i2c bit algorithm module version 2.7.0 (20021208) bttv: driver version 0.7.106 loaded bttv: using 4 buffers with 2080k (8320k total) for capture bttv: Host bridge is VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8377 [KT400 AGP] Host Bridge bttv: Bt8xx card found (0). bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 00:0d.0, irq: 17, latency: 32, mmio: 0xeb001000 bttv0: using: BT878( *** UNKNOWN/GENERIC **) [card=0,insmod option] i2c-algo-bit.o: Adapter: bt848 #0 scl: 0 sda: 0 -- testing... i2c-algo-bit.o: bt848 #0 seems to be busy. bttv: readee error bttv0: using tuner=-1 bttv0: registered device video0 bttv0: registered device vbi0 ------------------------------------ The card certainly is as generic as they come, I guess that readee error isn't a good sign, but otherwise, it's all greek to me. The card doesn't have a tuner: it's got composite & s-video in, and s-video out (and one other connection that defies my mind to identify). Hence I set the tuner options to -1: ------------------------------------ options bttv card=0 radio=0 bttv_verbose=2 tuner=-1 options i2c-core i2c_debug=1 options i2c-algo-bit bit_test=1 ------------------------------------ Mx.
