FAQ: Flyvideo3000 saa7134

[humanity_to_others]

Learn your card number in this page: http://linux.bytesex.org/
For Flyvideo 3000 number is 2sudo gedit /etc/modulesadd the linesaa7134 card=2and I use tvtime for viewing:sudo apt-get install tvtimeafter next reboot for channel scanning:tvtime-scanner you can run it from menu

If you want to use mplayer for viewing first install it:sudo apt-get install mplayer-386
sudo apt-get install mplayer-fonts
sudo apt-get install w32codecsthen edit config file,gedit .mplayer/configand add the following line:tv=driver=v4l2:device=/dev/video0:fps=25:chanlist=etc:norm=pal:
audiorate=32000:adevice=/dev/dsp1:input=0:amode=1:normid=4andmplayer tv:// for recording install mencoder:sudo apt-get install mencoderedit config filegedit .mplayer/mencoder
add this line:tv=driver=v4l2:device=/dev/video0:fps=25:norm=pal:amode=1:
width=640:height=480and recording command:
mencoder tv:// -ovc lavc -oac mp3lame

for radio listening and recording gnomeradio is well enough, first download it:
wget -c http://www.wh-hms.uni-ulm.de/~mfcn/gnomeradio/packages/gnomeradio_1.6-1_i386.deb
then install:sudo dpkg -i gnomeradio_1.6-1_i386.debI also changed default device from /dev/radio to /dev/radio0 in settings.
you can run it from menu.

[steven_ellis]

Just a quick note on

If you want to use mplayer for viewing you should edit config file,sudo gedit /home/your_user_name/.mplayer/configand add the following line:tv=driver=v4l2:device=/dev/video0:fps=29.97:chanlist=etc:norm=pal:
audiorate=32000:adevice=/dev/dsp1:input=0:amode=1:normid=4andmplayer tv://

fps=29.97 is wrong for any european PAL countries, should be fps=25

Steve

[LINJEinc]

I don't understand how to find the "card number".
I'm trying to get my ASUS TV/FM Card to work under Ubuntu,
and it's using saa7134.

[humanity_to_others]

Just a quick note on



fps=29.97 is wrong for any european PAL countries, should be fps=25

Steve Thanks for correction, I changed the post.

[humanity_to_others]

I don't understand how to find the "card number".
I'm trying to get my ASUS TV/FM Card to work under Ubuntu,
and it's using saa7134.
you can also look at this page :> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_saa7134
17 -> ASUS TV-FM 7134

[fragmental]

If it's not listed in the list of saa713x cards then it could be an OEM product of lifeview. You can see those cards here http://www.lifeview.com/usa/html/products/OEM/OEM-main.htm. In my case, i believe my card is the goog though it says it's branding is kobian mercury. the goog card is based on flyvideo 2000 so I know that my card is, for driver purposes, a flyvideo2000. If it were one of the other 2 cards, it would be a flyvideo3000. Finding the card number is only half the battle, though.

The driver doesn't always detect the right tuner. The website says the card has three different versions with three different tuners, but considering that two of the three are pal only, I know that mine has to be the third. That still doesn't help me a whole lot, it just tells me that the tuner is universal and can do all the broadcast modes. I went through the list of possibly tuners by hand. The card works with tuners 9 and 39, and some of the pal ones, but I live in an ntsc zone. I just found something that says that the alps tuners(9) are compatible with the lg_api(39). I sent an e-mail off the lifeview to see if I they can tell me what tuner they use. I still don't have the radio or the remote working. I gave up after about an hour.