I've saved a link to freevo in my favorites.  I hope someday to be able to play with
it.  Sorry Kbob.

I think, first, the big question is how to get /dev/video0 working.

Linux Rocks ! ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
>well.. There are several tuner applications, but I think Xawtv is the best
>(however, I havnt been able to use the kde one...) motv and xawtv are pretty
>simular... effectstv is fun, but not really watchable. Im not sure, but
>mplayer might be able to do tv, its fairly popular for dvd and mpeg playback.
>and theres broadcast2000 (and another program I cant remember right now) for
>editing, but I cant say Ive used them...
>
>Jamie
>
>On Thursday 29 May 2003 07:31 am, Bob Crandell wrote:
>: 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
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