Thanks for all your feedback about the PVR-350 and using it in a PAL country.
I have seem some posts about people in the USA trying to record games they play from PAL / PAL-60 with the ivtv card. I did actually have the card working in one instance, but since changing the kernel it's stuffed up, it's probably a problem with Andrew Morton's kernel patchset. I'll try and re-wire my IDE cables, or obtain get the promise PATA backport branch of libata and merge it into stable kernel sources. When I had it working the MSP44XX chip detected PAL audio and worked. So with the modular V4L linux drivers are all aware of the video standard. The avenue I'm going to take is to use an external tuner device (a DVD recorder) which can output in NTSC if I run into any problems using PAL. I've got a low end soldering solution, but if I was going to get a non static SMT soldering device with and an anti-ESD desk pad, could I change the tuner on the card? They only have a few inputs, so if I check the datasheets it's a can do job right? As for the video-eeprom, arn't I2C devices re-programmerable without removing them? Is it really necessary to reprogram the EEPROM if you only change the tuner? (as it can be overridden on the command line). Also with the video output (haven't tested it yet - still need the pinout for the cable!), can the SAA7XXX chip output a PAL signal or does it rely on PAL initialized firmware too? Cheers, Luke _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
