Douglas McMorris wrote:
hello all,
i'm a v4l newbie, i bought an avermedia TV Stereo card (i did some
research to make sure it was supported by bttv) and i have been mostly
satisfied with the performance of v4l. this is my first post, and i've
got two questions. i'm currently using zapping as my tv viewer and i
use NVrec to record. both work fine with the v4l driver, but support
v4l2. i was wondering how hard it is to install the v4l2 drivers and get
bttv2 up and working? and what are some of the advantages/disadvantages
of moving to v4l2.
This should be fairly easy...
1) Download latest videodevX package from http://www.thedirks.org/v4l2/
- untar; make; make install
2) Download latest driver package from http://bttv-v4l2.sf.net/
- untar; make; make install
3) modprobe bttv2
This should work just fine, but it is probably a better idea to download
the latest bttv 0.8.x package from http://www.bytesex.org/, and install
it with v4l2 support.
my second, higher priority question, is specific to my tv tuner(or at
least i think it is) its supposed to support dbx stereo, which it
appears to fine in zapping and NVrec, the problem i have is if a channel
is transmitting SAP i only here the SAP audio. this is really annoying
b/c my local news on NBC
is broadcast in both spanish and english, and all i can get is the
spanish version, i'm getting better at understanding the weather in
spanish, but a human interest special on the worlds largest ant farm
might throw me off. its not only nbc that does it, but it appears to
happen with almost every program that has a SAP broadcast. i'm not for
sure, b/c i don't have a tv that uses SAP, but from what i can tell its
most if not all of them. is this a issue with the stereo decoder on the
tv tuner or with the bttv driver? or with v4l itself, i'm really at a
loss to fix it, i've searched on the web and the zapping mailing list
pointed me here, i even searched through all the archives of this
mailing list (all 24mb!!) and only found a couple of people reporting
that same problem, but no solution for it. thanks for the great v4l
drivers. hope someone has run into the same problem and found a fix.
Unfortunately, I don't know the answer for this. My first _guess_ would
be that audio is on auto. Use xawtv's controls to set audio to stereo.
-justin
