kenton Posted September 19, 2004 Report Share Posted September 19, 2004 My girlfriend is always taking over the TV, and I've got a spare satellite reciever and I'm going to hook it up to the computer. I'll probably buy a cheapie off eBay, but anyone who has experience, especially with the actual chipsets on the TV board. Thanks everyone! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted September 19, 2004 Report Share Posted September 19, 2004 Mandrake comes with the bttv driver (http://linux.bytesex.org/v4l2/bttv.html) so any card supported by this driver should work out of the box (ie any card with the bt848 and bt878 chips) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FreeEagle Posted September 19, 2004 Report Share Posted September 19, 2004 well i use Mandrake 10.0 official and i have also installed on this Pc my TV Card, it is WinTV Express , this is made by Hauppauge ( www.hauppauge.de ) . Everything work very well with this TV Card , it is fully suppoted under Mandrake 10.0 Official. you have just to do this command when you want to turn it on. #modprobe bttv or you can add this line in the /etc/mod.prelod and you do not need to do this command every time , it will be automatically loaded whenever you start your PC. thats it. Enjoy it . FreeEagle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a13x Posted September 19, 2004 Report Share Posted September 19, 2004 I also need help with my TV tuner. MDK 10 detects it as Bt878 but when I try to configure it with the TV Card wizard from MCC it doesn't work. No channel is detected. Another thing ... what TV norm should I use ? I asked my cable operator and they said: PAL B/G D/K or something like that. Only these may have something to do with what the operator said: PAL, PAL-N, PAL-M, PAL-NC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYinYeti Posted September 20, 2004 Report Share Posted September 20, 2004 I watch TV without problem using a saa7134-based Pinnacle "PCTV Stereo". I use a self-compiled kernel, though. I don't know how it would be with Mandrake10's standard kernel. Yves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papaschtroumpf Posted September 20, 2004 Report Share Posted September 20, 2004 Since when do things under Linux work "no questions asked"? If they work today, they'll probably be broken with the next upgrade or the next kernel version! Sorry, bad mood, mdk is pissing me off today and I've gotta vent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted September 20, 2004 Report Share Posted September 20, 2004 anything with a bt chip is probably the easiest way to go. any cheap Hauppage card will have this chip. steer clear of USB stuff, it's harder to get working - get a basic cheap Hauppage PCI card and it'll work fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted September 21, 2004 Report Share Posted September 21, 2004 Since when do things under Linux work "no questions asked"?If they work today, they'll probably be broken with the next upgrade or the next kernel version! Sorry, bad mood, mdk is pissing me off today and I've gotta vent. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> ?? Since the beginning my tv-card was working, and always has. The only things that stopped working or may stop working are the Philips webcam I have (well, the vga resolution mode), and currently the LIRC ir for the tv-card since the lirc modules went missing - just hoping they will get put back into mdk10.1 soon. Hardware that is well supported usually doesn't change to not-so-well-supported unless big changes happen on the kernel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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