Dear list members,
There were numerous reports on newer Pinnacle cards not working with
bttv on this list in the last months
Many of you (including Gerd) has supposed that Pinnacle has changed the
tuner type w/o notice.
According to the answer of Pinnacle tech. support to my recent question,
the tuner is(?) still MT2032.
Does anybody have any idea about the problem?
G.
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Title: tech. spec./API for pctv RF tuner
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| Response (Herman) | 11/22/2003 01:02 AM |
Dear Gabor,
TV-Tuner on the newer PCTV PCI cards is a Microtune MT2032 (TV/FM chip tuner)
Kind Regards,
Yours faithfully,
Pinnacle Technical Support
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| Auto-Response | 11/21/2003 08:13 AM |
Title: Is my PCTV compatible with a 3rd party TV viewing application ?
Link: http://pinnacle.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/pinnacle.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=2487&p_created=1051287711
Title: No Video output to VCR
Link: http://pinnacle.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/pinnacle.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=500&p_created=1010574883
Title: No video appears in Capture Window or it is black with Studio PCTV
Link: http://pinnacle.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/pinnacle.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=486&p_created=1008715316
Title: Linux driver for Pinnacle PCTV products
Link: http://pinnacle.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/pinnacle.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=2497&p_created=1052226960
Title: Audio with PCTV
Link: http://pinnacle.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/pinnacle.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=2481&p_created=1051283553
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| Customer (Gábor Ziegler) | 11/21/2003 08:13 AM |
Preliminary: Please DO NOT SEND mindlessly Linux weblinks as an answer. I can read and I HAVE read the links available on this site.
I have bougth a PTCV card in 2003 September because I was misinformed by this site that the card has 3rd party Linux support ( from bytesex.org). The card has a red PCB, the visible chips are Conexant bt878 (videograbber), and Phillips TDA8855 (audio chip). The RF chip is inivisible behind a metal box (Faraday-cell) bearing the Pinnacle logo.
The RF tuner is NOT supported by the Linux bttv driver (composite video input (still) works). I have asked the developers and they said that apparently the Pinnacle company have changed the RF tuner chip w/o notification and there is no available specs for this chips.
I understand that card is not supported officially under Linux. However, since I have invested my own money in to this piece of programmable hardware, I would like to be able to program it.
Therefore, I would like to know
1. the exact name of the RF tuner chip and its manufacturer
2. programming API for the tuner
Thanks,
Gábor |
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| Question Reference #031121-000292 |
| Product: | PCTV Series and TV Viewing Products |
| Sub-Product: | Studio PCTV/Pro/Rave |
| Category: | Other |
| Contact Information: | gziegler@xxxxxxxxxxx |
| Date Created: | 11/21/2003 08:13 AM |
| Last Updated: | 11/22/2003 01:02 AM |
| Status: | Waiting |
| Region of the World: | Other European Countries |
| Language: | English |
| Frequency of Problem: | Consistently |
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| Tech Skill Level: | Can custom build PC's |
| Editing Skill Level: | Just Starting Out |
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