On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 07:18:48PM -0300, Jim D wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm running RH 8.0 on a P III 500 mhz, 320 ram, on-board video card. > Could anyone suggest a TV tuner card that would be a very basic and > easy install? I like my Pinnacle PCTV PRO. It installs by just loading the bttv-driver and specifying tuner=33. The radio is not working yet though. Then use any v4l-compatible program like xawtv or zapping. > One for which I won't have to research the net for > drivers and the appropriate setup configuration, but can simply drop > into a PCI slot, maybe have to run an RPM against for support, and take > a stock X app for TV watching and possibly capture and be ready to run > with. > > It all doesn't have to be quite that simple, but close to it would be > great. Thank you all for any assistance you can give on this matter. > > Respectfully, > > J...etc. > > On Wednesday, October 23, 2002, at 07:47 PM, Mark McClelland wrote: > > > Peter Schlaf wrote: > > > >> Gerd Knorr wrote: > >> > >> > >>>> We do need a 'mode' field in v4l2_frequency for that, I think. That > >>>> field could also be used for setting spectrum inversion for ATSC, > >>>> antenna polarization for sat, etc... > >>>> > >> > >> > >>> I added a type field to the tuner struct, so we can add support for > >>> ATSC+stuff later. Also plenty of "reserved" fields to v4l2_frequency > >>> ... > >>> > >> > >> For the implementation of selection the antenna polarization and other > >> satellite related switches it is IMHO better to have an own struct, > >> e.g. struct v4l2_antenna and two ioctl calls for reading and setting > >> this struct. This would make the API more cleaner. > >> > > > > You're probably right about that. Some other things could be added to > > that struct too, like rotator control. I think we should wait until we > > have a good selection of hardware to study before adding any of that > > to the API, though (the same goes for ATSC for the most part). These > > things can be implemented as driver-specific ioctls or even v4l2 > > controls at first, and then added to the official API once we have > > more experience. > > > > -- > > Mark McClelland > > mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Video4linux-list mailing list > > Video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > Video4linux-list mailing list > Video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list
