Pinnacle 330e Tuner - does it work?

[crossy]

Is there anyone out there that's got a working install of this USB hardware (Pinnacle Dazzle Hybrid Stick) with Ubuntu 7.10 (especially 64bit!)?

The card's lsusb identity looks like:

Bus 002 Device 006: ID 2304:0226 Pinnacle Systems, Inc. [hex]

I've followed as many of the relevant links that I could Google for, but mainly:

http://mcentral.de/wiki/index.php5/Main_Page#Pinnacle_PCTV_Hybrid_Pro_Stick_330e

I got nothing initially, but when I added the firmware (v3) for the analog part, then I got picture (no sound) in tvtime. xawtv fails because it's looking for an analog device that isn't there, (I'll put in some links for it at some point). That said I'm not that bothered for analog - it's the digital service I want.

Anyway, the problem with the digital side of this appears to be that's it's not firing up the DVB tuner, (I think), so there's no /dev/dvb/... tree. The stick is being recognised correctly, as in:

[ 1307.383661] em28xx #0: Found Pinnacle Hybrid Pro (2)

Any/all help most greatfully received, because I really don't fancy going back to the Hauppauge Nova-TD that I got the Pinnacle to replace, (because the tuner stage doesn't work that well for Linux - so the Nova-TD will be going onto a WindowsXP box - heresy I know) ](*,)

Thanks, crossy.

[ulixes1983]

Hi,

analog mode with tvtime was working for me under 7.10.

For the sound issue you have to use a sox command.

There is a script named usbaudio_setup.sh in the v4l directory. Use this and the sound will work, not perfectly, but it works!

[crossy]

Hi,

analog mode with tvtime was working for me under 7.10.

For the sound issue you have to use a sox command.

There is a script named usbaudio_setup.sh in the v4l directory. Use this and the sound will work, not perfectly, but it works!

Thanks for that ulixes1983 :cool:

Now if I can find someone equally helpful with the digital part of this hardware, then I'll be a happy penguin herder!

I might just say "what the heck", back off my files and put a new install of Hardy on here.

[krauli]

I cant get my 330e to work.. can someone plz help me :s
i got 8.04 64 bit.. :s
I tried to understand this but with no success-.-
http://mcentral.de/wiki/index.php5/Installation_Guide

[alexelprogramador]

Hi again!

I have the same device: pinnacle pctv hYBRID PRO STICK 330E

Is a small usb tv sintonizer.

Its small and really usefull, but only under windows

Under linux I cant start it

pleasse, any help would be greatfully received

thanks

http://img815.imageshack.us/img815/2179/pinnaclepctvhybridprost.jpg

[PCNetSpec]

See here:
http://linuxforums.org.uk/linux-tips-tricks/pinnacle-hybrid-tv-tuner-pctv-330e-in-ubuntu-10-10-maverick/