RE: [Freevo-users] activate/install capture card bt878-based
I'm not sure what options are available for my card or what's in the drivers. Do you mean you read the bttv driver source and experimented until you found what worked with your card? well thats what i did, i only read the driver source to make sure i got all the options, sometime modinfo *module name* dosnt list everything, thats what i meant. to get my card working involved playing with the card= and tuner= options aswell as pll=1(for pal), the best way is to look at your card, see if it has one crystal on it or two, if it has two (which it sounds like it has, like mine) ths means it works on pal and ntsc, but u have to select which crystal to use with the pll=0/1 option, i need pll=1 for pal (Australia) to work. also look at you tuner, is it temic or phillips or other? it should have a model number clearly printed on it, and im sure you'll find a match in the TUNER file (same place where u found ur CARDLIST file for bttv) basicaly, apart from looking at the card to see what hardware you have (write down any other chips you find, they may be stereo or fm chips etc), it helps to know what ur card can do, ie radio=0 or radio=1 etc. and just keep playing, you may have the right card=# number but wrong tuner=# number, or visa-versa. ths is how i got mine working. BTW if your card is sorta autodetected, then you must have a sub-system for the card when you lspci -v ? my card dosnt so it has no hope of ever being autodetected, if yours does, then once its working send all the info to bttv developers so they can include support for the card. this is what my lspci -v looks like for the bt878 i have: 00:0a.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 02) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9 Memory at dfdfe000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K] 00:0a.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 02) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 9 Memory at dfdff000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K] notice no Subsytem: bit. Here's my status: My card may be autodetecting, though behavior suggests not flawless. When I run xawtv and it is set to 'television' for 'video source' and 'TV norm' set to 'NTSC', all I see is a bunch of static in the top 1/2in. to 1 in. of 'tv' display window. If I change the video source to use S-video or composite1 (I am feeding output of my camcorder to those inputs for testing), I can see that xawtv is trying to display the image, but it's like the horz. sync is not right (image is indistinguishable). Then I change the 'TV norm' to PAL or NTSC-jp or really any of the other choices and I start to get an image that is squished vertically into about the top 1/2 of the display window and colors may not look right. Then I switch 'TV norm' back to NTSC, same picture remains (the 1/2-height squished one), I double-click window title bar (which turns display off and just title bar remains), then repeat double-click on title bar and display window is re-created---but now it looks normal. At this point I can switch the camcorder to playback and the video is played back like normal...just no sound from linux box (sound on the linux box works fine for everything besides xawtv--which hints that sound settings for bttv aren't right). most of that just sounds like wrong tuner or card option (or the pll has to be set for NTSC) as far as the audio goes, what are you using? the loop plug in the back of the card to your soundcard? or the digital audio built in? the loop plug is fairly simple and should work, if it isnt try the correct tuner settings (and make sure u havnt muted the line-in or plugged the bttv loop plug into the mic input), i only got audio on one tuner setting but 3 others worked good but without audio. also, if you know your card has a mixer (bass/teble/balance/vol) then you might need the tvmixer module loaded so you can access the bttv cards mixer (usally /dev/mixer1), just incase the audio is muted internaly. if you using the digital audio, well dont untill you know the tuner and card settings are correct, then once its ok, and u have loaded the btaudio drivers ok, then u can use /dev/dsp2 or /dev/dsp3 or whatever you set up the bttv audio to be instead of the external loop plug (/dev/dsp0:Line). OK, with all that said, I know diddly-squat about bttv driver options or how to find out what my card is capable of (as it has no linux info., just WinBlows). Suggestions? type #modinfo bttv to find the bttv options you really only need to find your cards model (or as similar as possible) from CARDSLIST (i think you said card=78 was correct last time) and the correct tuner type from TUNERS, and your half way there, just experiment. you probably need ppl=0 for NTSC instead of 1 for PAL good luck with it all, if anything is confusing or you get stuck let us know. cheers, rohbags ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [Freevo-users] activate/install capture card bt878-based
I need some hand-holding on capture card issue. I'm using RH8 and Kworld KW-TV878RF-PRO capture card. Card isn't being autodetected. It is listed in the BTTV info. as card=78 - Jetway TV/Capture JW-TV878-FBK, Kworld KW-TV878RF . How do I 'install' this card in RH8 so that I can test it with xawtv or some other program before trying to use it in xine or mplayer so that it will work in freevo. (I've read through the bttv wiki and info on other sites but nothing is really making sense to me...newbie) ugh - i feel ur pain - i too have a bt878 that isnt autodetected, but worse for me my card isnt listed at all, just a non-FM-radio mono-only version, so i have to put up with 1 channel of audio :( (sucks big time!) anyways, what u need is some lines added to ur /etc/modules.conf file, something like this: # bttv ##alias char-major-81 bttv alias char-major-81 videodev alias char-major-81-0 bttv #options bttvcard=10,26,51,70,24 # -- they all work with my MagicTView 878 options bttvcard=51 radio=1 tuner=20 pll=1 fieldnr=0 bttv_verbose=2 automute=0 #options tuner debug=1 type=19,20,30 #options tuner debug=1 type=20 options tuner debug=1 type=20 options tvmixer debug=2 devnr=1 options tvaudio debug=1 tea6300=1 ## bttv audio (btaudio) # MODULE_PARM(dsp1,i); # MODULE_PARM(dsp2,i); # MODULE_PARM(mixer,i); # MODULE_PARM(debug,i); # MODULE_PARM(irq_debug,i); # MODULE_PARM(digital,i); # MODULE_PARM(analog,i); # MODULE_PARM(rate,i); # MODULE_PARM(latency,i); # MODULE_PARM_DESC(latency,pci latency timer); #options btaudio debug=2 irq_debug=1 digital=1 analog=0 rate=44100 #options btaudio debug=2 irq_debug=1 digital=1 analog=0 rate=32000 #options btaudio debug=2 irq_debug=2 digital=0 analog=1 rate=44100 options btaudio debug=1 irq_debug=1 digital=1 analog=1 dsp1=1 dsp2=2 mixer=1 ## bttv audio (msp3400) # MODULE_PARM(once,i); # MODULE_PARM(debug,i); # MODULE_PARM(simple,i); # MODULE_PARM(amsound,i); # do not use - for france 6.5Mhz sound carrier. # MODULE_PARM(dolby,i); # MODULE_DESCRIPTION(device driver for msp34xx TV sound processor); options msp3400 debug=2 once=1 simple=1 dolby=1 (i always read the drivers source and copy all the options to the modules.conf as comments, helps for tweaking later, and for times like this when you dont want to explain every litle thing :P ) just add some similar options lines to suit your hardware in your modules.conf file, use modprobe bttv to load and check ur syslog for errors etc, if probs unload with rmmod bttv, and try again with different options. hope that helps, rohbags. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) _ Chat via SMS. Simply send 'CHAT' to 1889918. More info at http://ninemsn.com.au/mobilemania/MoChat.asp?blipid=6800 --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
RE: [Freevo-users] activate/install capture card bt878-based
rohbags wrote: anyways, what u need is some lines added to ur /etc/modules.conf file, something like this: (bttv options text removed for space) (i always read the drivers source and copy all the options to the modules.conf as comments, helps for tweaking later, and for times like this when you dont want to explain every litle thing :P ) just add some similar options lines to suit your hardware in your modules.conf file, use modprobe bttv to load and check ur syslog for errors etc, if probs unload with rmmod bttv, and try again with different options. I'm not sure what options are available for my card or what's in the drivers. Do you mean you read the bttv driver source and experimented until you found what worked with your card? Here's my status: My card may be autodetecting, though behavior suggests not flawless. When I run xawtv and it is set to 'television' for 'video source' and 'TV norm' set to 'NTSC', all I see is a bunch of static in the top 1/2in. to 1 in. of 'tv' display window. If I change the video source to use S-video or composite1 (I am feeding output of my camcorder to those inputs for testing), I can see that xawtv is trying to display the image, but it's like the horz. sync is not right (image is indistinguishable). Then I change the 'TV norm' to PAL or NTSC-jp or really any of the other choices and I start to get an image that is squished vertically into about the top 1/2 of the display window and colors may not look right. Then I switch 'TV norm' back to NTSC, same picture remains (the 1/2-height squished one), I double-click window title bar (which turns display off and just title bar remains), then repeat double-click on title bar and display window is re-created---but now it looks normal. At this point I can switch the camcorder to playback and the video is played back like normal...just no sound from linux box (sound on the linux box works fine for everything besides xawtv--which hints that sound settings for bttv aren't right). OK, with all that said, I know diddly-squat about bttv driver options or how to find out what my card is capable of (as it has no linux info., just WinBlows). Suggestions? thanks, Keir --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
RE: [Freevo-users] activate/install capture card bt878-based
I'm using RH8 and Kworld KW-TV878RF-PRO capture card. Card isn't being autodetected. It is listed in the BTTV info. as card=78 - Jetway TV/Capture JW-TV878-FBK, Kworld KW-TV878RF . How do I 'install' this card in RH8 so that I can test it with xawtv or some other program before trying to use it in xine or mplayer so that it will work in freevo. (I've read through the bttv wiki and info on other sites but nothing is really making sense to me...newbie) Found my own answer (kind of--still having trouble getting image from card). Hopefully this link will help someone else with bttv Here's a link to How-To docs at linux.org: http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/BTTV.html Keir --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
