Hi, I have the same problem with Voodoo TV/FM (probably 3500) card. I have to fine tune every channel in order to get reasonable picture and sound. I wonder if it is possible to eliminate the fine tuning process every time a channel is switched to. Reg > > From: jklaas <jklaas@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Fri 21/Mar/2003 15:10 CET > To: video4linux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: voodootv 200 great picture, static sound > > I sent some logs out to Gunther Mayer, but I haven't heard back from him. > I've been rather busy with other things so I haven't had much time to > spend on it. There's a sale on TV cards at CompUseless this weekend, so I > think I'm going to go pick another one up and see if that does any better. > I found that with fine tune at 6 or 7 I get an OK picture and sound. > Sometimes, the sound doesn't tune anyway but most of the time it does. > > On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Andrew Chen wrote: > > > Was there ever a solution to this? I just bought a VoodooTV 200 and I'm > > wondering if I'm going to run into the same problems or not. :| > > > > At 05:38 PM 2/21/2003 -0500, you wrote: > > >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 > > > > > > > > > > > >-- > > >video4linux-list mailing list > > >Unsubscribe mailto:video4linux-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > > >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list > > > > > > > > -- > > video4linux-list mailing list > > Unsubscribe mailto:video4linux-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list > > > > -- > There's lies, damn lies, and then there's Microsoft's marketing. > > James Klaas > > > > -- > video4linux-list mailing list > Unsubscribe mailto:video4linux-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list > > __________________________________________________________________________ Freeserve AnyTime - Go online whenever you want for just £6.99 a month for your first 3 months, that's HALF PRICE! And then it's just £14.99 a month after that. For more information visit http://www.freeserve.com/time/ or call free on 0800 970 8890
