Ben Bridgwater wrote: > > 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. You can always attempt to draw 5v off the keyboard port :) STB did a lot of OEM tv tuners for gateway. I'm suspecting that what you have there is actually an STB DesktopTV card - iirc, philips tuner, bt878, TDA7432 audio. I have one in an athlon at work. Got it for $29 on ebay. The quirk that this card has is that the fm tuner doesn't appear to work for a lot of people until it's tuned to 500mhz (impossible). Dunno why, and i suspect this is fixed in late versions of the bttv package. At any rate, if you're trying to listen to the radio and hearing only static, get the fmtools package from exploits.org and tune the radio to 500mhz, and then back to whatever you wanted to listen to. Worked for me, and at least one other person. There's a much older Gateway OEM stb tv card - says TVI30 on a sticker on the back - that's a TEMIC 4032-FY5 tuner, bt848, and i forget which audio chip. It has the quirk that in many versions of the bttv package the tuner isn't properly set up, and AFC seems to be disabled, meaning it's really only useful for composite & svideo input, though it works like a champ with windows. This may be fixed in late versions of the bttv package, since there's a new tuner def for the temic 4032. I have one of these too, but i rarely use it. It drove me to purchase a WinTV 401. > > > > > 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? Haven't a clue. Sorry. > > > 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? There are oodles of changes to the 0.7 driver that gerd is maintaining. Too many to list here. go look at http://bytesex.org/bttv You don't need 2.4 to use it, but you do need the i2c stack from lm_sensors. > 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... Sorry, no idea. Never have even plugged mine into a system that ever had a copy of windows on it. The differences between the OEM version and the retail version appear to have been purely analog (the missing line-in jack), so you could try looking on STB/3DFX/nVidia's sites for DesktopTV drivers. - Eric
