TV Tuner card in Canada [solved]

[manf0001]

Hi, I have just purchased a Hauppauge WinTV Go plus using the bt878 chip.

 

I am currently running the lastest Mandriva 2006 RC2, and I am unable to get the TV TUner card working.

 

in my /etc/modprobe.conf file it has options bttv tuner=2 card=10 gbuffers=4, which should all be correct.

 

When I open Kdetv or TV time it can not find the channels when I try to scan for them.

 

I went to the area to set up the TV Tuner card, and tried US-Cable using NTSC it would do a scan and then say nothing is found. I tried the Canada-Cable cause that's where I'm from. it did nothing.

 

I even down graded to 10.1 POwerpack and the same thing happened as well.

The card works fine under WinXP, I even tried installing the Windows Drivers and Software for it using Cross over but when I went to run the program it could not find the device even though everything was installed.

 

Can someone help me set it up in Mandriva 2006 for Canadian usage Cable?

 

Thanks

 

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[manf0001]

Hey, I just figured it out tonight. I added the following lines in /etc/modprobe.conf

 

options bt878 card= tuner=50 gbuffers=4

options bttv radio=0 card=10 tuner=50 gbuffers=4

 

I restarted Mandriva 2006 and then launched KDETv and scanned for US-Cable with NTSC and it found all of my channels.

[ddmcse]

Hey, I just figured it out tonight.  I added the following lines in /etc/modprobe.conf

 

options bt878 card= tuner=50 gbuffers=4

options bttv radio=0 card=10 tuner=50 gbuffers=4

 

I restarted Mandriva 2006 and then launched KDETv and scanned for US-Cable with NTSC and it found all of my channels.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 

 

after months of screwing with this on and off

i "got it" too

 

i kept hammering away today unloading and loading combinations

unload:

rmmod bttv

rmmod tuner

load:

modprobe bttv card=X tuner=X fyi (my-X=26)(my-x=39) missing some channels in tvtime but after nothing for a LONG time i'll take it for now . mythtv seems to have all channels

check for erros and confirm settings:

dmesg

make sure new settings are reported

card /tuner list should/could be located :

/usr/src/linux-2.6.11-6mdk/Documentation/video4linux (if you have the kernel source installed )

CARDLIST.bttv CARDLIST.tuner

 

my results so far

Xawtv= have sound ,change channels but no can see

kdetv=same as above

tvtime=works missing a few channels

mythtv=works but has speech /sound off sync and a little echo (i saw this mentioned somewhere before)

freevo = doesn't start anymore but did early today (win some -lose some)

WMTV= might work i just don't "get it" and it's a tiny little window anyway

[wilcal]

I restarted Mandriva 2006 and then launched KDETv and scanned for US-Cable with

NTSC and it found all of my channels.

I would be very interested in the frame rates and sizes of video stream capture

your get. Examples:

 

640x480x30 frames raw AVI

320x240x15 frames Mpeg-1

800x600x30 frames Mpeg-2

???