OK, I have an update. I figured out that I can have good sound or good picture, but not both. I found decent audio at fine tune offset of +7. But the picture is on the verge of unacceptable. I updated to bttv 0.7.105. Any other ideas on how to get good video _and_ audio? On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, jklaas wrote: > I had problems getting sound out of my voodootv 200 and after getting help > with that I now just get static on the audio. The video looks fine. I > noticed that whenever I remove ~/.xawtv and it goes through "searching" > for channels I get this: > > scanning channel list us-cable... > 1 ( 73.25 MHz): no station > 2 ( 55.25 MHz): no station > 3 ( 61.25 MHz): no station > 4 ( 67.25 MHz): no station > ... > > I tried fine tuning on a channel (as xawtv assumes you are just using the > frequencies listed even if it can't find a station) but didn't get any > improvements. > > I'm running this on the Mandrake 9.1 beta1 using the stock kernel which is > 2.4.21 with the Mandrake customizations. I'm using a KYRO II based video > card with fbdev driver. I can't tell what version of bttv it's using but > I think it's 0.7 something. > > I'm using xawtv 3.85 from Mandrake Cooker. Should I try downloading the > latest version of the bttv driver? Is the audio tuning offset somehow and > is that something I can experiment with using v4lctl? > > Would having bttv compiled into the kernel help versus having it as a > module? Should I be concentrating on the msp3400 driver instead? > > -- There's lies, damn lies, and then there's Microsoft's marketing. James Klaas
