Greetings, I've now tracked the 'no input' issue: it was, of course, a faulty lead. D'oh. However, although I'm now recieving input (and of reasonable quality, I think), I'm recieving black & white only :-( That is, using xawtv or tvtime, only setting TV Standard to PAL Nc works nicely. Normal PAL is unwatchable. This is with a PAL tape in a PAL video (I'm in the UK). I've tried tinkering with the frame rate under tvtime (I can't see how to with xawtv), but to no avail. Mplayer just barfs without any output. Again, pointers, ideas, or even outright solutions, I'd be most grateful. Mx. On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 08:27:54PM +0000, Martyn J. Pearce wrote: > My issue is quite simple: I'm getting no input from the card. I'm trying to > use xawtv (with -noxv to enable the selection of inputs), and selecting any > othe inputs (I get a choice of Tuner/Composite1/S-Video/Composite3, but my > only input is the one Composite in). I get a purely blue/black screen. The > audio is routed to the sound card, and is received fine. Attempts to record > with ffmpeg result in a likewise blank screen. > > I've trawled the web for HOWTOs, FAQs, etc., but to no avail. I have loaded > the v4l drivers (both v4l1-compat and v4l2-common). > > If anybody could offer pointers, ideas, or even outright solutions, I'd be > most grateful. > > Mx. > > PS: Clips from /etc/modules.conf: > > alias char-major-81 videodev > alias char-major-81-0 bttv > options bttv card=0 radio=0 bttv_verbose=2 bttv_debug=1 tuner=-1 > > alias char-major-89 i2c-dev > options i2c-core i2c_debug=1 > options i2c-algo-bit bit_test=1
