Hello, I have a TV tuner card from Hauppage that I would like to use in linux. I have kubuntu 7.10 running. It is somehow detected but not functioning yet. I found the following thead that shows a list of chips and tuners. I have found the number on my tuner. There are several entries that could be my tuner. I want to try them all as described in the tread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=377290&page=4
Once you have the tuner chip and the card type unload the current bttv driver and tuner types:
Code:
sudo rmmod bttv
sudo rmmod tuner
Next, load the correct types, substituting the numbers from the lists for x and y:
(Your card was card=10)
(If you have a Phillips NTSC tuner it would be tuner=2)
Code:
sudo modprobe bttv card=X tuner=Y
You may also have luck loading them as 2 separate commands:
Code:
sudo modprobe bttv card=x
sudo modprobe tuner type=y
My first question is do I need to restart something after this procedure ?
Second question how could I check that the card actually works. I found the following procedure:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...auppauge+wintv
Now perhaps your device is already working correct. Show us the output of:
Code:
dmesg | grep ivtv
On my computer this looks like:
Code:
dmesg | grep ivtv
ivtv: Start initialization, version 1.2.1
ivtv0: Initializing card #0
ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge card (cx23416 based)
ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)
ivtv i2c driver #0: Test OK
ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150
ivtv0: Reopen i2c bus for IR-blaster support
cx25840 1-0044: cx25842-24 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
tuner 1-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
wm8775 1-001b: chip found @ 0x36 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
ivtv0: Registered device video0 for encoder MPG (4096 kB)
ivtv0: Registered device video32 for encoder YUV (2048 kB)
ivtv0: Registered device vbi0 for encoder VBI (1024 kB)
ivtv0: Registered device video24 for encoder PCM (320 kB)
ivtv0: Initialized card #0: Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150
ivtv: End initialization
ivtv0: Loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (376836 bytes)
ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02060039
As you can see my video device node is video0.
Then you could use cat to test your video device node (if one exists):
Code:
cat /dev/video0 > test.mpeg
This should produce an mpeg video file in you users home directory. Since you did not to tune any channel prior to the cat command you'll only see some flicker in the video file. But in this case your tv-card works.
Now you could proceed to my frontend and use it to watch tv
In any case you should install tha package "ivtv-utils" via synaptics. If you want to use my frontend there some more dependences.
Third question.
What is ivtv-utils used for and do i need it if I am going to use myth tv ?
Thanks for all help that you can give.
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