Finally, I got it to work. So far, the picture has been in black and white, and slightly grainy, but it is now picking up channels. Here's what I did.
Went to /etc/modprobe.d/ Edited the tv file to add tuner=44. Rebooted. Right now I'm experimenting with the tuner to see which one is the best, but right now I am up with my card. Thanks to everybody for all the help. John Meyer wrote: > It's identifying itself as a bttv card, not ivtv. And when I do a > dmesg, I notice that the tuner is always set to 4, no matter what I do. > Hans du Plooy wrote: >> On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 10:07 -0700, John Meyer wrote: >>> Playing /dev/video0. >>> Cannot seek backward in linear streams! >>> Seek failed >>> Cannot seek backward in linear streams! >> Shouldn't it be mplayer tv:// ? > >> I do (for encoding): > >> mencoder tv:// -tv >> driver=v4l2:width=768:height=576:norm=pal:input=1:alsa:adevice=hw.1,0 > >> You may have to edit that to your taste. Not sure if it's different >> with ivtv. > >> Hans >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
