hello
i have recently installed knoppmyth. i have the guide working but when i click on watch tv, i get nothing but static. i think i have setup the config right but not sure. i am using a cheap tv tuner with a conexant 878A chipset. on boot up, it says that it saw the tv tuner card and i can see it in /dev/video0 but i cannot get a picture. thank for the help

garrett

Hi,

What kind of visual do you get while watching TV? Static? Black?
How did you setup frequency tables?

Fiete

thanks for the response. i am getting half of teh screen in static and the other green. would the frequency tables be like us-cable?

garr79 it sound like you are using a Brooktree Chipset card, what you may find is that the system is not identifying it probably at boot.

Check you dmesg for the info on your card and/or do a lspci -v as this will list all of your pci cards, which includes your TV tuner. This will give you the info you need to do a search of the forums to get the setup info you need as most of these cards have been covered for some time.

FYI the driver it will use is the BTTV driver.

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Girkers

Hi,

If you live in the US using cable: yes.

Did you properly finish Mythtv-setup? If not, you can re-run it from a Xterm (as user mythtv)

F.

it says that my pci card is loaded. is this card supported by mythtv? i have ran mythtv-setup a million times but the result is always the same.
thanks for helping

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So what card? Any info available?

F.

my lspci -v output is

"0000:01:0b.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 132, IRQ 18 Memory at fc000000 (32 bit,l prefetchable) (size=4k) Capabilities: <available only to root>

thanks

You need to run lspci -v as root to get all the information. Here is the information I get from my card:


Please also have a look at the dmesg as this will tell us a bit more how the driver is recognising your card.

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Girkers

do i need to load ivtv drivers? i am thinking of buying a prv350 but doesnt that have the same chipset conexant 878?

thanks

my card had to be working beacuse i plugged my ps2 into the composite source and it shows up on my computer monitor. there are only 4 inputs for the card television, composite1, s-video and composite 3. i alot of peole have talked about using 'tuner' as an input but i dont see a 'tuner' input. maybe this helps it the ps2 works. thanks

Hi,
I would suggest to follow the advice of Girkers


Your question about the tuner could possibly be answered after posting some info of dmseg;
Type in Xterm:


and


and


Please post the resulting output. I don't think that you have to use ivtv drivers for this card.

F.

You don't use the ivtv, it uses the bttv driver as I stated earlier.

garr79 for us to help you you need follow the directions we give you to allow us to guide you to the next step.

The PVR350 are a good card, but you may find that you have set up problems with that as well if you can not follow some simple directions.

Allow us to help you by doing the simple things we ask

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Girkers

you need to add the tuner info in the BTTV file. if you need more info on this I have notes at home and can be more specific.

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If I run this It's gives no results. Must it give any result?
If the answer is yes, how can I fix this problem?

thx for helping