Trevor Boicey wrote: > > Steve Tell wrote: > > Followup questions: > > - which are the least expensive no-frills one that have been seen? > > - my understanding is that if you don't care about the tuner (just > > composite or Svideo input), all '878 cards are pretty much the > > same and "just work" with V4L. True or False? > > Sadly the tuner might be required, I'm going to have > to multiplex some signals on different channels, get them > to the box, and then pull them apart with the bt cards. I can > do this with off-the-shelf modulators and tuners. > > I've had my share of problems with tuners so far. I have > owned two bttv cards in my life but neither had tuners. I > just borrowed a wincast/TV card to play with the tuner, but > haven't gotten it to tune a picture yet. (composite input works) > > I guess this is a change of pace for this thread, but > does anybody know what parameters are needed for that tuner? The > lid of the RF box on the card is labelled "PHILIPS", and it's > an NTSC card. > > I get a lot of this: (last three lines repeat as long as > I try to change channels using xawtv) > > dev# insmod tuner.o type=0x02 > dev# dmesg > (...) > i2c-core.o: driver i2c TV tuner driver registered. > tuner: chip found @ 0xc2 > bttv0: i2c attach [Philips NTSC] > i2c-core.o: client [Philips NTSC] registered to adapter [bt848 #0](pos. 0). > tuner: TV freq (0.-6) out of range (44-958) > tuner: TV freq (0.-6) out of range (44-958) > tuner: TV freq (0.-6) out of range (44-958) "out of range" is caused by the application (the printk should be shut off in bttv). Try xawtv-3.71 and bttv-0.7.90 and re-report. Describe the picture you see (black, blue, noise or else).
