Are there any other TV tuner programs out there that are as good as XawTV?  I looked
briefly but didn't see anything worth trying.

Linux Rocks ! ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
>Sadly, since upgrading to slackware 9, I dont have tv working (worked great
>under 8.x). I also have suse 8, and the tuner works fine (under suse, I only
>get black screen, and  sound...) Ive never recorded with this card, I have
>with my old one(under windows  only...) So..... If anyone wants me to try,
>let me know how, and Ill see how it  works (I prettymuch only use xawtv as
>kwintv locks the computer (the card only works in preview or overlay... cant
>remmember which... but only one).
>
>Jamie
>
>On Wednesday 28 May 2003 10:00 pm, Ben Barrett wrote:
>: I don't know for sure what the problem is here, but I am a little surprised
>: to see messages from both v4l and v4l2, as I had thought that they were
>: separate and exclusive projects (but then I'm pretty silly sometimes).
>: What distro and version are you running?  Please supply a list of related
>: packages if you can.  Does anyone else's tv tuner go black-and-white (no
>: color?) when using the -xv option?  Does the ATI All-in-Wonder, Bob? Maybe
>: you have you figured this one out on your own already?
>:
>: cheers,
>:
>:    Ben B
>:
>: PS - my modules.conf has:
>:  alias video0 bttv
>:  alias char-major-81 bttv
>: but not the same two lines like yours... (which had videodev)
>: and here's the bits from my dmesg:
>:  Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
>:  agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
>:  agpgart: Detected Via Apollo Pro KT133 chipset
>:  agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xd8000000
>:  agpgart: AGP mode is 4x
>:  Linux video capture interface: v1.00
>:  i2c-core.o: i2c core module
>:  i2c-algo-bit.o: i2c bit algorithm module
>:  bttv: driver version 0.7.72 loaded
>:  bttv: using 2 buffers with 2080k (4160k total) for capture
>:  bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
>:  PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:0a.0
>:  PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:0a.1
>:  bttv0: Bt878 (rev 2) at 00:0a.0, irq: 9, latency: 32, memory: 0xdf002000
>:  bttv0: subsystem: 0070:13eb  =>  Hauppauge WinTV  =>  card=10
>:  bttv0: model: BT878(Hauppauge new (bt878)) [autodetected]
>:  bttv0: Hauppauge msp34xx: reset line init
>:  i2c-core.o: adapter bt848 #0 registered as adapter 0.
>:  bttv0: Hauppauge eeprom: model=37281, tuner=Philips FM1236 (2), radio=yes
>:  bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... found
>:  i2c-core.o: driver i2c msp3400 driver registered.
>:  msp34xx: init: chip=MSP3430G-A1, has NICAM support
>:  msp3410: daemon started
>:  bttv0: i2c attach [MSP3430G-A1]
>:  i2c-core.o: client [MSP3430G-A1] registered to adapter [bt848 #0](pos. 0).
>:  bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found
>:  bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found
>:  tvaudio: TV audio decoder + audio/video mux driver
>:  tvaudio: known chips:
>: tda9840,tda9873h,tda9850,tda9855,tea6300,tea6420,tda8425,pic16c54 (PV951)
>: i2c-core.o: driver generic i2c audio driver registered.
>:  bttv0: i2c attach [tda9840]
>:  i2c-core.o: client [tda9840] registered to adapter [bt848 #0](pos. 1).
>:  i2c-core.o: driver i2c TV tuner driver registered.
>:  tuner: chip found @ 0xc2
>:  bttv0: i2c attach [Philips NTSC]
>:  i2c-core.o: client [Philips NTSC] registered to adapter [bt848 #0](pos.
>: 2). bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 ... ok
>:
>: ...and in the /proc devices, I also have the framebuffer on 29 and
>: video_capture on 81.  drm on your 229?  Nice... I think. here's my
>: /proc/pci entry for my tuner card:
>:   Bus  0, device  10, function  1:
>:     Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 (rev 2).
>:       IRQ 9.
>:       Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=4.Max Lat=255.
>:       Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xdf000000 [0xdf000fff].
>:
>: Hope this helps.  Anyone else?
>: Don't forget http://www.mythtv.org and
>: http:http://freevo.sourceforge.net///freevo.sourceforge.net/
>:
>: Finally, a question, in parting:  Is anyone here using a tv tuner with any
>: multi-headed display setups?
>:
>: thanks and g'nitey,
>:
>:
>:    Ben B
>:
>: PS - anyone need a gnurd?  email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>:
>:
>:
>: On Mon, 26 May 2003 16:48:42 +0000
>:
>: "Bob Crandell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>: | Hi,
>: |
>: | I have XawTV running on ATI All-in-Wonder.  I want to record.
>: |
>: | Dmesg gives this info:
>: | Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
>: | agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 149M
>: | agpgart: Trying generic Via routines for device id: 0605
>: | agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf8000000
>: | [drm] AGP 0.99 on VIA @ 0xf8000000 64MB
>: | [drm] Initialized r128 2.1.6 20010405 on minor 0
>: | i2c-core.o: i2c core module
>: | i2c-proc.o version 2.6.1 (20010825)
>: | i2c-dev.o: i2c /dev entries driver module
>: | i2c-core.o: driver i2c-dev dummy driver registered.
>: | i2c-algo-bit.o: i2c bit algorithm module
>: | i2c-algo-pcf.o: i2c pcf8584 algorithm module
>: | Linux video capture interface: v1.00
>: | i2c-core.o: driver i2c TV tuner driver registered.
>: |
>: | And:
>: | bttv: driver version 0.7.83 loaded
>: | bttv: using 2 buffers with 2080k (4160k total) for capture
>: | bttv: Host bridge is VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8605 [ProSavage PM133]
>: | bttv: Host bridge is VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI]
>: |
>: | This is in /dev
>: | $ ls -l /dev/vi*
>: | lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            6 Sep 16  2002 /dev/video ->
>: | video0 crw-rw-rw-    1 root     root      81,   0 Sep 16  2002
>: | /dev/video0 crw-rw-rw-    1 root     root      81,   1 Sep 22  2002
>: | /dev/video1 crw-rw-rw-    1 root     root      81,   2 Sep 22  2002
>: | /dev/video2 crw-rw-rw-    1 root     root      81,   3 Sep 22  2002
>: | /dev/video3
>: |
>: | /etc/modules.conf
>: | # bttv
>: | alias char-major-81     videodev
>: | alias char-major-81-0   bttv
>: | pre-install bttv modprobe -k tuner
>: | options bttv radio=0 card=0
>: | options tuner type=5
>: |
>: | /proc/devices
>: | Character devices:
>: |   1 mem
>: |   2 pty
>: |   3 ttyp
>: |   4 ttyS
>: |   5 cua
>: |   7 vcs
>: |  10 misc
>: |  13 input
>: |  14 sound
>: |  21 sg
>: |  29 fb
>: |  81 video_capture
>: |  89 i2c
>: | 128 ptm
>: | 136 pts
>: | 162 raw
>: | 180 usb
>: | 188 usb/tts/%d
>: | 226 drm
>: |
>: | /proc/pci
>: |   Bus  1, device   0, function  0:
>: |     VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 PF (rev 0).
>: |       IRQ 11.
>: |       Master Capable.  Latency=64.  Min Gnt=8.
>: |       Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf4000000 [0xf7ffffff].
>: |       I/O at 0xd800 [0xd8ff].
>: |       Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf2000000 [0xf2003fff].
>: |
>: | And then the error:
>: | bash-2.05a$ xawtv -noxv
>: | This is xawtv-3.76, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.18)
>: | can't open /dev/video0: No such device
>: | v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
>: | v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such device
>: | v4l: open /dev/video0: No such device
>: | no video grabber device available
>: |
>: | There seems to be some little detail I missed.  Can you spot it?
>: |
>: | Thanks
>: |
>: | --
>: | Bob Crandell
>: | Assured Computing
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