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PcHDTV3000 NTSC reception

On Friday 31 March 2006 17:18, Greg Stark wrote:
>I have a PcHDTV card but I receive very few HDTV broadcasts (actually
>currently none, but when I get an antenna set up it'll be two or three
> at most). So except for the occasional HDTV broadcast I want to use
> the card primarily as a second NTSC receiver.
>
>As I read the docs though it seems the HDTV reception is handled by
> DVB drivers and NTSC reception is handled by traditional v4l drivers
> and I have to unload one and load the other to switch. That seems to
> make it impractical to use in mythtv for both types of video signals.
>
>Worse, right now it doesn't actually seem to work, as if loading the
> HDTV drivers messed up the card settings even once they're unloaded
> and the the NTSC v4l drivers are loaded.
>
>Maybe I'm just confused about the exact relationship between the DVB
> HDTV drivers and the drivers that handle NTSC. Is there a good way to
> handle what I want to do?

I don't have any hdtv available here yet.  To make it work with ntsc, I 
have this line in my rc.local file:

modprobe cx88-dvb

and everything else seems to fall into place.  I'm using tvtime, latest.

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