On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 21:52 +0530, Joey K. wrote: > Hello, > > I've had the Hauppauge 150 NTSC card for a while and I've moved to > Asia (PAL TV standard). I still don't have cable yet but while setting > up the card on fedora, 9 and I see the following in the kernel log, > > **** > ivtv: Start initialization, version 1.2.0 > ivtv0: Initializing card #0 > ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge card (cx23416 based) > ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:00.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21 > ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32) > tveeprom 1-0050: Hauppauge model 26582, rev E6B2, serial# 10434152 > tveeprom 1-0050: tuner model is TCL M2523_5N_E (idx 112, type 50) > tveeprom 1-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) (eeprom 0x08) > tveeprom 1-0050: audio processor is CX25843 (idx 37) > tveeprom 1-0050: decoder processor is CX25843 (idx 30) > tveeprom 1-0050: has no radio, has no IR receiver, has no IR > transmitter > ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150 > cx25840 1-0044: cx25843-24 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #0) > tuner 1-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0) > wm8775 1-001b: chip found @ 0x36 (ivtv i2c driver #0) > tuner-simple 1-0061: type set to 50 (TCL 2002N) > ivtv0: Registered device video0 for encoder MPG (4096 kB) > ivtv0: Registered device video32 for encoder YUV (2048 kB) > ivtv0: Registered device vbi0 for encoder VBI (1024 kB) > ivtv0: Registered device video24 for encoder PCM (320 kB) > ivtv0: Initialized card #0: Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150 > ivtv: End initialization > **** > > The card says it is NTSC(M). Is it possible to force it to PAL?
The card can process baseband PAL on the composite and svideo inputs. For tuner compatibility what matters most is the "letter" standard, in your case "M". The tuner should work for NTSC-M in the Phillipines, South Korea, and Taiwan and likely also the NTSC-M variant available in Japan (sometimes referred to as NTSC-J). There's good chance you could use the tuner for PAL-M (color might take some work to get right), but that's only in Brazil. And a chance the tuner could work for PAL-N/Nc, but those are only in South America as well. This page gives a short (non-authoritative) comparison of M vs. N systems: http://www.pembers.freeserve.co.uk/World-TV-Standards/Transmission-Systems.html If this page is accurate, M & N systems are pretty much the same, except for the color subcarrier center freqs. For any other letter standard, the tuner certainly won't work. The bandwidths, IFs, and subcarrier freqs are too different. > Or do I need to buy PAL specific card? That would be easiest, unless you can buy an external PAL tuner/demodulator box that gives you S-Video or Composite output. Regards, Andy > Thanks in advance, > Joey. _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
