[mythtv-users] DViCO Fusion HDTV 5 Gold NTSC setup
R. G. Newbury
newbury at mandamus.org
Sun Jan 15 07:36:52 UTC 2006
Jason Gabriele wrote:
>I also could get the Fusion 5 Gold working as a QAM tuner but had trouble
>with analog tuning. You should be able to set it up just like any other v4l
>card. I was able to get mine to work but the picture appears washed out
>(looks fine with QAM) and also the sound doesn't come in until you change
>the channel. There are some serious problems with the cx88 drivers even in
>the latest kernel (I also am using 2.6.15), so I don't think we are the only
>ones. BTW, it looks as though you have the correct drivers loaded. You may
>want to make sure it's detecting the correct card using dmesg and try using
>tvtime to tune some channels.
>
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>I've got the subject card working as an HD (ATSC) receiver, but can't
>>figure out how to get it to receiver NTSC channels. I defined a V4L
>>capture card in the 'Capture cards' section of mythtv-setup. It then
>>shows up as a device of /dev/v4l/video0. But when I go to scan those
>>channels, nothing shows up. And I know that there's several VHF and UHF
>>channels on standard NTSC broadcast. I also tried setting the 'TV
>>format: in the Global Backend setup to NTSC (even though that didn't
>>make a lot of sense, and logically wouldn't be the right thing to do for
>>the ATSC 'part' of the card)....
>>
>>Has anyone gotten this to work?
>>
>>On a 'plus' note, I did manage (I think) to get both this card and a
>>HD5000 card to both work at the same time (both in ATSC mode). I'm
>>running gentoo and had to emerge the 2.6.15-gentoo kernel. But after
>>configuration, both cards worked...
>>
>>Its possible that I didn't follow the Fusion Gold instructions correctly
>>and don't have the correct module compiled to actually pick up NTSC...
>>Which device driver would that be? Here's my lsmod output:
>>
>>Module Size Used by
>>cx88_dvb 10756 0
>>cx8802 11780 1 cx88_dvb
>>or51132 11012 1 cx88_dvb
>>video_buf_dvb 7044 1 cx88_dvb
>>nxt200x 14660 1 cx88_dvb
>>cx22702 7876 1 cx88_dvb
>>cx8800 30412 0
>>cx88xx 60064 3 cx88_dvb,cx8802,cx8800
>>i2c_algo_bit 10184 1 cx88xx
>>video_buf 20228 5
>>cx88_dvb,cx8802,video_buf_dvb,cx8800,cx88
>>
>>
Going from memory, the cx8800 module is the NTSC module while the
cx88-dvb is the ATSC module.
To get NTSC working properly, you will have to rmmod cx88_dvb, then
modprobe cx8800.
These cards can do both modes, but not at the same time.
I had my HD3000 card doing NTSC as a test at one point.
Geoff
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