BTTV/BT878 Woes - The wicked Dragon rears it's Head again

[kwhiskers]

On 5/6/05, kwhiskers <kwhiskers at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the info. I will check when I get home.
> 
> I am wondering about v4l2: is it in the kernel, like v4l, or how do I 
> implement it? I am definitely using v4l, not 2. I have put an entry into the 
> xorg.conf to load the v4l module. Is this how I would load v4l2? Anything 
> else I need to do?
> 
> Is v4l2 preferred? I see very little mention of it and it appears, looking 
> at the bytesex site, to be somewhat a deviant or dead development line, or 
> am I mistaken?
> 
> kwhiskers
> 
> On 5/6/05, Mostafa Z. Afgani <mostafa.afgani at world.iu-bremen.de> wrote:
> > 
> > kwhiskers wrote:
> > 
> > > Any ideas?
> > >
> > 
> > I have a TV Tuner card that runs using the BTTV module and TVTime works.
> > My lsmod looks like:
> > 
> > $ /sbin/lsmod | grep bttv
> > bttv 158353 1 bt878
> > video_buf 23621 1 bttv
> > i2c_algo_bit 9033 1 bttv
> > v4l2_common 5825 1 bttv
> > btcx_risc 4937 1 bttv
> > tveeprom 13017 1 bttv
> > videodev 9665 1 bttv 
> > i2c_core 21953 5 tuner,bttv,i2c_algo_bit,tveeprom,i2c_viapro
> > 
> > My modprobe.conf is:
> > 
> > alias char-major-81 bttv
> > 
> > Output from lspci:
> > 
> > 00:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video
> > Capture (rev 11)
> > 00:09.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture
> > (rev 11)
> > 
> > dmesg:
> > 
> > Linux video capture interface: v1.00
> > bttv: driver version 0.9.15 loaded
> > bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture 
> > bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
> > ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:09.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
> > bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:00:09.0, irq: 11, latency: 64, mmio:
> > 0xdfe00000
> > bttv0: detected: Leadtek WinFast TV 2000 [card=34], PCI subsystem ID is 
> > 107d:6606
> > bttv0: using: Leadtek WinFast 2000/ WinFast 2000 XP 
> > [card=34,autodetected]
> > bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=00bff706 [init]
> > bttv0: using tuner=5
> > bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... not found 
> > bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found
> > bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found
> > bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9887 @ 0x86... not found
> > tuner: chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus bt878 #0 [sw] 
> > tuner: type set to 5 (Philips PAL_BG (FI1216 and compatibles)) by bt878
> > #0 [sw]
> > bttv0: registered device video0
> > bttv0: registered device vbi0
> > bttv0: registered device radio0
> > bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 .. ok 
> > bttv0: add subdevice "remote0"
> > bt878: AUDIO driver version 0.0.0 loaded
> > bt878: Bt878 AUDIO function found (0).
> > ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:09.1[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
> > bt878(0): Bt878 (rev 17) at 00: 09.1, irq: 11, latency: 64, memory:
> > 0xdff00000
> > 
> > With this configuration, it works "out of the box".
> > 
> > Sorry I can't be of more help but hope it gives you some clues ..
> > 
> > Best,
> > -M
> > 
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> 
> 
Oops. Just got home. I guess something has changed without me noticing. I AM 
using v4l2_common.

It is bttv2 that is deviating and discontinued.

But anyhow, got any ideas why it is not possible to view a television 
channel with kmplayer, using tv://channelnumber, as indicated in the 
documentation?
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