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TV Tuner card problems

Am Dienstag, den 06.02.2007, 15:59 +0100 schrieb Nigel Henry:
> On Tuesday 06 February 2007 00:42, jon (at) noga.cc wrote:
> > I'm hoping someone here can help me as I am unsure where else to go.
> >
> > I rebuilt my dedicated Freevo recording server this weekend.  The major
> > change was going from Fedora Core 2, to Ubuntu 6.10.  I also upgraded from
> > Freevo 1.5 to 1.62.
> >
> > Whenever I record, the video is fine but the audio is all static.  I have
> > a Pinnacle tuner card with the jumper cable from the tuner to my audio in
> > on my sound card.  I plugged some speakers into the audio out on the tuner
> > card and hear the static there as well so I don't think it is my sound
> > card setup.
> 
> > Thanks!
> > Jon
> 
> Hi Jon. This may not be much help as my card is a Hauppage Win Tv Express, but 
> it is a bt878 card, using bttv, and tda9887.
> 
> I had problems with sound on a bunch of distros. FC, Debian, and Kubuntu, and 
> needed to set options for when the tda9887 is loaded.
> 
> This is what I have in /etc/modules in Kubuntu-5.10 with the 2.6.12-10-386 
> kernel.
> 
> tda9887 port2=0 pal=I            (thats a capital i)
> 
> port2=0 got the sound working. Prior to that I just had static, with a bit of 
> TV timebase sound running in the background. The pal=I option is to get sound 
> from UK PAL transmissions that I receive in France.
> 
> I don't know which kernel you have on Ubuntu 6.10, but if it's a 2.6.18 
> kernel, the port2=0 option needs to be set for the tuner module, as tda9887 
> is integrated in the tuner module for kernel 2.6.18 onwards.
> 
> Let us know if it works.
> 
> Nigel.
> >


Hi Nigel,

take care, port2=0 on the Pinnacle cards with mt20xx is poweroff.

Cheers,
Hermann




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