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TV Tuner card problems

Am Dienstag, den 06.02.2007, 21:23 +0100 schrieb Nigel Henry:
> 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.

Nigel, no problem at all.

The stuff can be tricky when it is tuner specific and and we all made
mistakes on it.

Your are welcome!

Cheers,
Hermann



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