Eric Jorgensen wrote: > > > > > I finally got around to installing my new STB TV PCI card, and it's > > working fine with xawtv other than that I don't know what I need to do > > in order to hear the TV audio, and couldn't find how in the docs or > > grubbing around the net. > > First, understand that there are at least four distinctly > different products that get refered to as "STB TV PCI" Are there any pecularities that I need to know about? The one I have was an OEM part for Gateway (I got it for $37 at computergeeks.com!). It's also got FM radio, and has inputs for the radio and TV signals plus composite and S-video in, as well as an audio input. Sadly it doesn't have the +5V power connector that my US Robotics BigPicture Camera wants, and old capture card had - I guess RatShack will have one. > > > Do I need to connect the STB audio out to my sound card in, or can xawtv > > give me TV audio without that, and if so what do I need to do? > > Yes, you do need to use an analog connection between the tv tuner > and your sound card. Unless you don't mind the slight synchronization > problems of using the btaudio driver, which only works if your card has an > 878, and then not always either. OK. I noticed the internal audio out connector when I was installing it - I'll have to take another look. I'm pretty sure it does have a (very small!) Bt878. Which bttv/xawtv versions do I need if I want to try btaudio? > > This is being used with the kernel bttv driver from 2.2.15 and xawtv > > 3.21 (yeah I know - time to upgrade - I've tried 2.4 but havn't jumped > > yet!). > > eww, the 0.6 driver? are you sure? you don't need to upgrade your > kernel to use the new driver. I'll upgrade to the 2.4 kernel etc soon anyway, as soon as the VM issues are sorted. In the meantime are there any particular fixes in the 0.7 driver that I'm going to want for TV? One final point is that I couldn't install the driver for Windows 95. The audio half installed fine, but the video driver just wouldn't install - no error reported. Not a biggie since I use it for Linux anyway, although it'd be nice to be able to do the occasional VirtualDub capture. The driver (from Gateway's support site) claims to be Windows 95/98, but the unzipped driver only has a win98 subdirectory... Thanks, Eric. Ben
