Douglas McMorris wrote: > > hello all, > > i'm a v4l newbie, i bought an avermedia TV Stereo card (i did some > research to make sure it was supported by bttv) and i have been mostly > satisfied with the performance of v4l. this is my first post, and i've > got two questions. i'm currently using zapping as my tv viewer and i > use NVrec to record. both work fine with the v4l driver, but support > v4l2. i was wondering how hard it is to install the v4l2 drivers and get > bttv2 up and working? and what are some of the advantages/disadvantages > of moving to v4l2.
This should be fairly easy... 1) Download latest videodevX package from http://www.thedirks.org/v4l2/ - untar; make; make install 2) Download latest driver package from http://bttv-v4l2.sf.net/ - untar; make; make install 3) modprobe bttv2 This should work just fine, but it is probably a better idea to download the latest bttv 0.8.x package from http://www.bytesex.org/, and install it with v4l2 support. > my second, higher priority question, is specific to my tv tuner(or at > least i think it is) its supposed to support dbx stereo, which it > appears to fine in zapping and NVrec, the problem i have is if a channel > is transmitting SAP i only here the SAP audio. this is really annoying > b/c my local news on NBC > is broadcast in both spanish and english, and all i can get is the > spanish version, i'm getting better at understanding the weather in > spanish, but a human interest special on the worlds largest ant farm > might throw me off. its not only nbc that does it, but it appears to > happen with almost every program that has a SAP broadcast. i'm not for > sure, b/c i don't have a tv that uses SAP, but from what i can tell its > most if not all of them. is this a issue with the stereo decoder on the > tv tuner or with the bttv driver? or with v4l itself, i'm really at a > loss to fix it, i've searched on the web and the zapping mailing list > pointed me here, i even searched through all the archives of this > mailing list (all 24mb!!) and only found a couple of people reporting > that same problem, but no solution for it. thanks for the great v4l > drivers. hope someone has run into the same problem and found a fix. Unfortunately, I don't know the answer for this. My first _guess_ would be that audio is on auto. Use xawtv's controls to set audio to stereo. -justin _______________________________________________ Video4linux-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list
