[mythtv-users] anyone have bttv experience?

[Jeff Waters]

On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 14:32, Jeff Waters wrote:
> Hi all, 
> 
> I've been using myth for about 6 months and found out during discussions
> here and such that I don't have my tv card setup right. I imagine it
> would prob be easier to setup and maintain if I did.
> 
> I believe I need to get my bttv module setup correctly upon boot up so I
> attempted to that done. In the process I waxed my mandy 9.0 install so I
> attempted to get gentoo compiled and such and after 3 days gave up and
> installed mandy 9.1.
> 
> now I've got a fresh install I re-compiled my kernel to be processor
> specific instead of the default i586 setup and made sure all my
> video4linux and tv card settigs were modules. (due to bttv doco said it
> should be).
> 
> My question is I ran "insmod bttv card=63" since I have the ATI TV
> Wonder but I still have to to a global fine tune +111 on all channels to
> get them to the correct channel. I ran lspci and it's showing it as
> brooktree still, not sure if that would change with the insmod options.
> 
> 
> 00:0f.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video
> Capture (rev 02)
> 00:0f.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture
> (rev 02)
> 
> 
> I'm trying to figure out how to get my card to capture video and audio
> since the pci scan found both encoders. 
> I've been reading over the bttv readme's and such over the last two days
> and it's a bit cryptic for me. I'm hoping someone can point me in the
> right direction on this.
> 
> Thanks, 
> Jeff
> 
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Well I got the tuner down now, added type=17 to the tuner listing in
modules.conf.... now all I have left is to figure out how to get it to
hardware capture audio.