what is your favorite TV viewing app?
....and what settings do you use?

what modules do you load in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules?

i've read there are multiple STB TV PCI's out there, this is the one i have:

bt848 chipset
stereo
No FM
Temic 4032 tuner
S-video and composite in

i've had ZERO luck getting this card working. i use to use XawTV with my old
Hauppauge card. that card only had mono sound, and didt have S-video input
(used for my video game systems)

Xenomorph wrote:

> what is your favorite TV viewing app?
> ...and what settings do you use?

I have two STB cards with FM and the Phillips NTSC tuner, as well a
Hauppage or two. Xawtv works quite well with said cards.

> what modules do you load in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules?

I haven't needed to load modules for my STB cards in quite some time, I
just compile in the bttv support, let the kernel auto-detect the cards
and then run xawtv. With the STB cards, I do have to increase the
volume with STB, but that's not really a problem.

> i've read there are multiple STB TV PCI's out there, this is the one i
> have:
>
> bt848 chipset
> stereo
> No FM
> Temic 4032 tuner
> S-video and composite in
>
> i've had ZERO luck getting this card working. i use to use XawTV with
> my old Hauppauge card. that card only had mono sound, and didt have
> S-video input (used for my video game systems)


Xawtv should work quite nicely with these cards since by default it
works with bt848 chipset. I suspect you're trying to use modules when
you could just let the compiled in setup work. Incidentally if you
look carefully enough, you can find a description of which modules you
should load for your older STB chipset and forget about recompiling a
kernel.

I compile video4linux into the kernel

/sbin/modprobe -a bttv card=0 radio=1
/sbin/modprobe -a tuner type=2


On Thu, 13 May 2004 17:40:32 -0400, Art Clemons wrote:

> Xenomorph wrote:
>
>> what is your favorite TV viewing app?
>> ...and what settings do you use?
>
> I have two STB cards with FM and the Phillips NTSC tuner, as well a
> Hauppage or two. Xawtv works quite well with said cards.
>
>> what modules do you load in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules?
>
> I haven't needed to load modules for my STB cards in quite some time, I
> just compile in the bttv support, let the kernel auto-detect the cards
> and then run xawtv. With the STB cards, I do have to increase the
> volume with STB, but that's not really a problem.
>
>> i've read there are multiple STB TV PCI's out there, this is the one i
>> have:
>>
>> bt848 chipset
>> stereo
>> No FM
>> Temic 4032 tuner
>> S-video and composite in
>>
>> i've had ZERO luck getting this card working. i use to use XawTV with
>> my old Hauppauge card. that card only had mono sound, and didt have
>> S-video input (used for my video game systems)
>
>
> Xawtv should work quite nicely with these cards since by default it
> works with bt848 chipset. I suspect you're trying to use modules when
> you could just let the compiled in setup work. Incidentally if you
> look carefully enough, you can find a description of which modules you
> should load for your older STB chipset and forget about recompiling a
> kernel.

91YJ_Renegade wrote:

> I compile video4linux into the kernel
>
> /sbin/modprobe -a bttv card=0 radio=1
> /sbin/modprobe -a tuner type=2
>

I'm not sure that's the correct description for the STB card in question
since it doesn't have a radio if I remember correctly and use the 48
rather than 78 card. That's not a major problem, but you do have to
know which type matches your card if you don't compile it in the kernel
and let the kernel autodetect your card when it boots up. Please note
that most cards are described
in /usr/src/linux-2.x.x/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.tuner and
CARDLIST.bttv. His card is likely number 3, and tuner #6 but he should
check on his own.