TV Tuner card problems

[Nigel Henry <cave.dnb (at) tiscali.fr>]

On Tuesday 06 February 2007 20:36, hermann pitton wrote:
> 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

Apologies Hermann for the misleading information. I wrongly assumed that 
tda9887 options that work with the Hauppauge card might work with the 
Pinnacle one.

Nigel.

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