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make sure that you can make it work in xawtv first..

you probably have an input setting incorrect, like using us-broadcast or
pal or something..

make sure it works in xawtv first

-Mark


-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-dev-admin@snowman.net [mailto:mythtv-dev-admin@snowman.net]
On Behalf Of Jeremy Oddo
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 12:20 PM
To: mythtv-dev@snowman.net
Subject: [mythtv] WinTV and Cable/Digital Cable


For all you WinTV users out there...did you need to do anything special
to get the cable input to work? I'm just getting a lot of colorful
snow. I thought that it was perhaps my digital cable, but I'm thinking
that isn't the case.

If I plug something into the WinTV S-VHS input, I can see picture. If I
plug cable into the the WInTV coax input, I get snow. If I plug a VHS
into WinTV S-VHS input, I get picture If I plug cable into VHS then to
WinTV S-VHS input, I get picture If I plug cable into VHS then to WinTV
coax input, I get snow.

Is there something I missed with the WinTV card setup? The S-VHS input
works fine but the coax cable input gives me snow. Of course, if the
cable routes thru the VHS then to WinTV via S-VHS I can't change
channels.

I was thinking that it was the fact that I have digital cable, but I can
see the first 61 channels of cable thru the VHS so I _SHOULD_ be able to
get those channels, right?




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I tried it in xawtv and got the same thing. I live in America so I tried
us-broadcast and us-cable (NTSC). The cable port is "Television", right?
I have four inputs under xawtv: Television, Composite1, S-Video, and
Composite3. Television gives me colorful snow, Composite1 gives me a blue
screen, S-Video gives me a B/W picture, and Composite3 gives me a color
picture. I'm guessing that, in order to use the cable tuner, I have to
have my cable coax going to the coax-in of the WinTV card.



> make sure that you can make it work in xawtv first..
>
> you probably have an input setting incorrect, like using us-broadcast or
> pal or something..
>
> make sure it works in xawtv first
>
> -Mark
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-dev-admin@snowman.net [mailto:mythtv-dev-admin@snowman.net]
> On Behalf Of Jeremy Oddo
> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 12:20 PM
> To: mythtv-dev@snowman.net
> Subject: [mythtv] WinTV and Cable/Digital Cable
>
>
> For all you WinTV users out there...did you need to do anything special
> to get the cable input to work? I'm just getting a lot of colorful
> snow. I thought that it was perhaps my digital cable, but I'm thinking
> that isn't the case.
>
> If I plug something into the WinTV S-VHS input, I can see picture. If I
> plug cable into the the WInTV coax input, I get snow. If I plug a VHS
> into WinTV S-VHS input, I get picture If I plug cable into VHS then to
> WinTV S-VHS input, I get picture If I plug cable into VHS then to WinTV
> coax input, I get snow.
>
> Is there something I missed with the WinTV card setup? The S-VHS input
> works fine but the coax cable input gives me snow. Of course, if the
> cable routes thru the VHS then to WinTV via S-VHS I can't change
> channels.
>
> I was thinking that it was the fact that I have digital cable, but I can
> see the first 61 channels of cable thru the VHS so I _SHOULD_ be able to
> get those channels, right?
>
>
>
>
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It was pretty much plug and play for me. If you are testing using xawtv
you might have to read the documentation (man pages are available)
which will tell you how to set the frequency table to us cable (you
were in california right?). Then you can do a channel scan (again, in
the man pages). That fixed me right up.
On Tuesday, November 19, 2002, at 09:19 AM, Jeremy Oddo wrote:

> For all you WinTV users out there...did you need to do anything
> special to
> get the cable input to work? I'm just getting a lot of colorful snow.
> I
> thought that it was perhaps my digital cable, but I'm thinking that
> isn't
> the case.
>
> If I plug something into the WinTV S-VHS input, I can see picture.
> If I plug cable into the the WInTV coax input, I get snow.
> If I plug a VHS into WinTV S-VHS input, I get picture
> If I plug cable into VHS then to WinTV S-VHS input, I get picture
> If I plug cable into VHS then to WinTV coax input, I get snow.
>
> Is there something I missed with the WinTV card setup? The S-VHS input
> works fine but the coax cable input gives me snow. Of course, if the
> cable routes thru the VHS then to WinTV via S-VHS I can't change
> channels.
>
> I was thinking that it was the fact that I have digital cable, but I
> can
> see the first 61 channels of cable thru the VHS so I _SHOULD_ be able
> to
> get those channels, right?
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-dev mailing list
> mythtv-dev@snowman.net
> http://www.snowman.net/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev

You might want to check the type of tuner that bttv is using. At first
bttv recognized the wrong tunner for my card and I had to use
canada-cable. When I changed to the currect tuner via a module parameter
I was able to use us-cable.. Picture quality was much improved.
John

> I tried it in xawtv and got the same thing. I live in America so I
> tried us-broadcast and us-cable (NTSC). The cable port is
> "Television", right? I have four inputs under xawtv: Television,
> Composite1, S-Video, and Composite3. Television gives me colorful
> snow, Composite1 gives me a blue screen, S-Video gives me a B/W
> picture, and Composite3 gives me a color picture. I'm guessing that,
> in order to use the cable tuner, I have to have my cable coax going to
> the coax-in of the WinTV card.
>
>
>
>> make sure that you can make it work in xawtv first..
>>
>> you probably have an input setting incorrect, like using us-broadcast
>> or pal or something..
>>
>> make sure it works in xawtv first
>>
>> -Mark
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mythtv-dev-admin@snowman.net
>> [mailto:mythtv-dev-admin@snowman.net] On Behalf Of Jeremy Oddo
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 12:20 PM
>> To: mythtv-dev@snowman.net
>> Subject: [mythtv] WinTV and Cable/Digital Cable
>>
>>
>> For all you WinTV users out there...did you need to do anything
>> special to get the cable input to work? I'm just getting a lot of
>> colorful snow. I thought that it was perhaps my digital cable, but
>> I'm thinking that isn't the case.
>>
>> If I plug something into the WinTV S-VHS input, I can see picture. If
>> I plug cable into the the WInTV coax input, I get snow. If I plug a
>> VHS into WinTV S-VHS input, I get picture If I plug cable into VHS
>> then to WinTV S-VHS input, I get picture If I plug cable into VHS then
>> to WinTV coax input, I get snow.
>>
>> Is there something I missed with the WinTV card setup? The S-VHS
>> input works fine but the coax cable input gives me snow. Of course,
>> if the cable routes thru the VHS then to WinTV via S-VHS I can't
>> change channels.
>>
>> I was thinking that it was the fact that I have digital cable, but I
>> can see the first 61 channels of cable thru the VHS so I _SHOULD_ be
>> able to get those channels, right?
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> mythtv-dev@snowman.net
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Do you have a coax cable running direct between an wall outlet and the tv
card, or only through the vcr?

My experience is that if I have my vcr turned on and want to watch tv via the
tvcard tuner, I get snow and junk also. If I turn off the vcr everything
tunes in fine.

On 19 Nov 2002 at 9:47, Jeremy Oddo wrote:

> I tried it in xawtv and got the same thing. I live in America so I tried
> us-broadcast and us-cable (NTSC). The cable port is "Television", right? I
> have four inputs under xawtv: Television, Composite1, S-Video, and
> Composite3. Television gives me colorful snow, Composite1 gives me a blue
> screen, S-Video gives me a B/W picture, and Composite3 gives me a color
>
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Wow, it's amazing how LITTLE information there is on the net :(
Is there a way to find out which tuner you _should_ be using?
Do I need to call this via modprobe or do I set it in xawtv?
Are there _any_ resources out there or do you just have to start flipping
stuff and hope you run across it eventually?

> You might want to check the type of tuner that bttv is using. At first
> bttv recognized the wrong tunner for my card and I had to use
> canada-cable. When I changed to the currect tuner via a module
> parameter I was able to use us-cable.. Picture quality was much
> improved.
> John
>
>> I tried it in xawtv and got the same thing. I live in America so I
>> tried us-broadcast and us-cable (NTSC). The cable port is
>> "Television", right? I have four inputs under xawtv: Television,
>> Composite1, S-Video, and Composite3. Television gives me colorful
>> snow, Composite1 gives me a blue screen, S-Video gives me a B/W
>> picture, and Composite3 gives me a color picture. I'm guessing that,
>> in order to use the cable tuner, I have to have my cable coax going to
>> the coax-in of the WinTV card.
>>
>>
>>
>>> make sure that you can make it work in xawtv first..
>>>
>>> you probably have an input setting incorrect, like using us-broadcast
>>> or pal or something..
>>>
>>> make sure it works in xawtv first
>>>
>>> -Mark
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: mythtv-dev-admin@snowman.net
>>> [mailto:mythtv-dev-admin@snowman.net] On Behalf Of Jeremy Oddo
>>> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 12:20 PM
>>> To: mythtv-dev@snowman.net
>>> Subject: [mythtv] WinTV and Cable/Digital Cable
>>>
>>>
>>> For all you WinTV users out there...did you need to do anything
>>> special to get the cable input to work? I'm just getting a lot of
>>> colorful snow. I thought that it was perhaps my digital cable, but
>>> I'm thinking that isn't the case.
>>>
>>> If I plug something into the WinTV S-VHS input, I can see picture. If
>>> I plug cable into the the WInTV coax input, I get snow. If I plug a
>>> VHS into WinTV S-VHS input, I get picture If I plug cable into VHS
>>> then to WinTV S-VHS input, I get picture If I plug cable into VHS
>>> then to WinTV coax input, I get snow.
>>>
>>> Is there something I missed with the WinTV card setup? The S-VHS
>>> input works fine but the coax cable input gives me snow. Of course,
>>> if the cable routes thru the VHS then to WinTV via S-VHS I can't
>>> change channels.
>>>
>>> I was thinking that it was the fact that I have digital cable, but I
>>> can see the first 61 channels of cable thru the VHS so I _SHOULD_ be
>>> able to get those channels, right?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> mythtv-dev mailing list
>>> mythtv-dev@snowman.net
>>> http://www.snowman.net/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
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>>> http://www.snowman.net/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-dev
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>>
>>
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you should find all the information you need to
customize your bttv modules in the linux source
documentation area.

I believe for most ppl that would be
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/video4linux/bttv

in that folder there is lots of information about the
bttv modules, options, cards, etc.

As for finding out what tuner the module should be
using, that is going to be somewhere on the net. I
too am having a problem finding what settings to use
for bttv with a Pinnacle Pctv card. I have tried
probably 25 different combinations ... with no luck.
Maybe the card is broke?

Anyways ... check out that documentation. And search
google groups ... lots of info there.

-- Allen

--- Jeremy Oddo <joddo@apixels.net> wrote:
> Wow, it's amazing how LITTLE information there is on
> the net :(
> Is there a way to find out which tuner you _should_
> be using?
> Do I need to call this via modprobe or do I set it
> in xawtv?
> Are there _any_ resources out there or do you just
> have to start flipping
> stuff and hope you run across it eventually?
>
> > You might want to check the type of tuner that
> bttv is using. At first
> > bttv recognized the wrong tunner for my card and I
> had to use
> > canada-cable. When I changed to the currect tuner
> via a module
> > parameter I was able to use us-cable.. Picture
> quality was much
> > improved.
> > John
> >
> >> I tried it in xawtv and got the same thing. I
> live in America so I
> >> tried us-broadcast and us-cable (NTSC). The
> cable port is
> >> "Television", right? I have four inputs under
> xawtv: Television,
> >> Composite1, S-Video, and Composite3. Television
> gives me colorful
> >> snow, Composite1 gives me a blue screen, S-Video
> gives me a B/W
> >> picture, and Composite3 gives me a color picture.
> I'm guessing that,
> >> in order to use the cable tuner, I have to have
> my cable coax going to
> >> the coax-in of the WinTV card.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> make sure that you can make it work in xawtv
> first..
> >>>
> >>> you probably have an input setting incorrect,
> like using us-broadcast
> >>> or pal or something..
> >>>
> >>> make sure it works in xawtv first
> >>>
> >>> -Mark
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: mythtv-dev-admin@snowman.net
> >>> [mailto:mythtv-dev-admin@snowman.net] On Behalf
> Of Jeremy Oddo
> >>> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 12:20 PM
> >>> To: mythtv-dev@snowman.net
> >>> Subject: [mythtv] WinTV and Cable/Digital Cable
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> For all you WinTV users out there...did you need
> to do anything
> >>> special to get the cable input to work? I'm
> just getting a lot of
> >>> colorful snow. I thought that it was perhaps my
> digital cable, but
> >>> I'm thinking that isn't the case.
> >>>
> >>> If I plug something into the WinTV S-VHS input,
> I can see picture. If
> >>> I plug cable into the the WInTV coax input, I
> get snow. If I plug a
> >>> VHS into WinTV S-VHS input, I get picture If I
> plug cable into VHS
> >>> then to WinTV S-VHS input, I get picture If I
> plug cable into VHS
> >>> then to WinTV coax input, I get snow.
> >>>
> >>> Is there something I missed with the WinTV card
> setup? The S-VHS
> >>> input works fine but the coax cable input gives
> me snow. Of course,
> >>> if the cable routes thru the VHS then to WinTV
> via S-VHS I can't
> >>> change channels.
> >>>
> >>> I was thinking that it was the fact that I have
> digital cable, but I
> >>> can see the first 61 channels of cable thru the
> VHS so I _SHOULD_ be
> >>> able to get those channels, right?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> _______________________________________________
> >>> mythtv-dev mailing list
> >>> mythtv-dev@snowman.net
> >>>
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I also had problems getting around audio problems on my card
(AverTV Stereo). I guess there are a couple of things you
can do. The easiest would be to take out your card and open
up the tuner part and see if any of the components have
hints as to which tuner it is. Also try the video4linux
mailing list on the redhat site. You have to sign up to be
able to see any of the postings so they won't show up on
google.

If you still don't find any info you could do it the hard
way... Do:

rmmod bttv
modprobe bttv tuner=1

- Run myth/xawtv and see if it works and if not:

rmmod bttv
modprobe bttv tuner=2

And just keep going until it does work... Ofcourse this
would only work if the problem really is the tuner and the
tuner is actually supported in bttv.

Btw. you sure the card actually isn't defective? Does it
work under Windows?

-Emil

On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:05:05 -0800 (PST), "Jeremy Oddo"
wrote:

>
> Wow, it's amazing how LITTLE information there is on the
net
> :(
> Is there a way to find out which tuner you _should_ be
using?
> Do I need to call this via modprobe or do I set it in
xawtv?
> Are there _any_ resources out there or do you just have to
> start flipping
> stuff and hope you run across it eventually?
>
> > You might want to check the type of tuner that bttv is
> using. At first
> > bttv recognized the wrong tunner for my card and I had to
> use
> > canada-cable. When I changed to the currect tuner via a
> module
> > parameter I was able to use us-cable.. Picture quality
> was much
> > improved.
> > John
> >
> >> I tried it in xawtv and got the same thing. I live in
> America so I
> >> tried us-broadcast and us-cable (NTSC). The cable port
is
> >> "Television", right? I have four inputs under xawtv:
> Television,
> >> Composite1, S-Video, and Composite3. Television gives
me
> colorful
> >> snow, Composite1 gives me a blue screen, S-Video gives
me
> a B/W
> >> picture, and Composite3 gives me a color picture. I'm
> guessing that,
> >> in order to use the cable tuner, I have to have my cable
> coax going to
> >> the coax-in of the WinTV card.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> make sure that you can make it work in xawtv first..
> >>>
> >>> you probably have an input setting incorrect, like
using
> us-broadcast
> >>> or pal or something..
> >>>
> >>> make sure it works in xawtv first
> >>>
> >>> -Mark
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: mythtv-dev-admin@snowman.net
> >>> [mailto:mythtv-dev-admin@snowman.net] On Behalf Of
> Jeremy Oddo
> >>> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 12:20 PM
> >>> To: mythtv-dev@snowman.net
> >>> Subject: [mythtv] WinTV and Cable/Digital Cable
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> For all you WinTV users out there...did you need to do
> anything
> >>> special to get the cable input to work? I'm just
> getting a lot of
> >>> colorful snow. I thought that it was perhaps my
digital
> cable, but
> >>> I'm thinking that isn't the case.
> >>>
> >>> If I plug something into the WinTV S-VHS input, I can
> see picture. If
> >>> I plug cable into the the WInTV coax input, I get snow.
> If I plug a
> >>> VHS into WinTV S-VHS input, I get picture If I plug
> cable into VHS
> >>> then to WinTV S-VHS input, I get picture If I plug
cable
> into VHS
> >>> then to WinTV coax input, I get snow.
> >>>
> >>> Is there something I missed with the WinTV card setup?
> The S-VHS
> >>> input works fine but the coax cable input gives me
snow.
> Of course,
> >>> if the cable routes thru the VHS then to WinTV via
S-VHS
> I can't
> >>> change channels.
> >>>
> >>> I was thinking that it was the fact that I have digital
> cable, but I
> >>> can see the first 61 channels of cable thru the VHS so
I
> _SHOULD_ be
> >>> able to get those channels, right?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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You can try to see if you can find your card on this page:

http://home.t-online.de/home/gunther.mayer/bttv/bttv-gallery.html

They might have the tuner listed.

Allen: I have the Pinnacle PCTV card that I got from
CompUSA. With the bttv version from my kernel I couldn't get
it autodetected but it works fine with v. 0.7.100 from
www.bytesex.org/bttv it works fine. Just download, compile
and modprobe. The reception seems to be a little worse than
my AverTV card but that could be either tuner type or
interference from other hardware in the box.

-Emil

On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:22:26 -0800 (PST), "Allen T.
Gilliland IV" wrote:

>
> you should find all the information you need to
> customize your bttv modules in the linux source
> documentation area.
>
> I believe for most ppl that would be
> /usr/src/linux/Documentation/video4linux/bttv
>
> in that folder there is lots of information about the
> bttv modules, options, cards, etc.
>
> As for finding out what tuner the module should be
> using, that is going to be somewhere on the net. I
> too am having a problem finding what settings to use
> for bttv with a Pinnacle Pctv card. I have tried
> probably 25 different combinations ... with no luck.
> Maybe the card is broke?
>
> Anyways ... check out that documentation. And search
> google groups ... lots of info there.
>
> -- Allen
>
> --- Jeremy Oddo <joddo@apixels.net> wrote:
> > Wow, it's amazing how LITTLE information there is on
> > the net :(
> > Is there a way to find out which tuner you _should_
> > be using?
> > Do I need to call this via modprobe or do I set it
> > in xawtv?
> > Are there _any_ resources out there or do you just
> > have to start flipping
> > stuff and hope you run across it eventually?
> >
> > > You might want to check the type of tuner that
> > bttv is using. At first
> > > bttv recognized the wrong tunner for my card and I
> > had to use
> > > canada-cable. When I changed to the currect tuner
> > via a module
> > > parameter I was able to use us-cable.. Picture
> > quality was much
> > > improved.
> > > John
> > >
> > >> I tried it in xawtv and got the same thing. I
> > live in America so I
> > >> tried us-broadcast and us-cable (NTSC). The
> > cable port is
> > >> "Television", right? I have four inputs under
> > xawtv: Television,
> > >> Composite1, S-Video, and Composite3. Television
> > gives me colorful
> > >> snow, Composite1 gives me a blue screen, S-Video
> > gives me a B/W
> > >> picture, and Composite3 gives me a color picture.
> > I'm guessing that,
> > >> in order to use the cable tuner, I have to have
> > my cable coax going to
> > >> the coax-in of the WinTV card.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>> make sure that you can make it work in xawtv
> > first..
> > >>>
> > >>> you probably have an input setting incorrect,
> > like using us-broadcast
> > >>> or pal or something..
> > >>>
> > >>> make sure it works in xawtv first
> > >>>
> > >>> -Mark
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> -----Original Message-----
> > >>> From: mythtv-dev-admin@snowman.net
> > >>> [mailto:mythtv-dev-admin@snowman.net] On Behalf
> > Of Jeremy Oddo
> > >>> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 12:20 PM
> > >>> To: mythtv-dev@snowman.net
> > >>> Subject: [mythtv] WinTV and Cable/Digital Cable
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> For all you WinTV users out there...did you need
> > to do anything
> > >>> special to get the cable input to work? I'm
> > just getting a lot of
> > >>> colorful snow. I thought that it was perhaps my
> > digital cable, but
> > >>> I'm thinking that isn't the case.
> > >>>
> > >>> If I plug something into the WinTV S-VHS input,
> > I can see picture. If
> > >>> I plug cable into the the WInTV coax input, I
> > get snow. If I plug a
> > >>> VHS into WinTV S-VHS input, I get picture If I
> > plug cable into VHS
> > >>> then to WinTV S-VHS input, I get picture If I
> > plug cable into VHS
> > >>> then to WinTV coax input, I get snow.
> > >>>
> > >>> Is there something I missed with the WinTV card
> > setup? The S-VHS
> > >>> input works fine but the coax cable input gives
> > me snow. Of course,
> > >>> if the cable routes thru the VHS then to WinTV
> > via S-VHS I can't
> > >>> change channels.
> > >>>
> > >>> I was thinking that it was the fact that I have
> > digital cable, but I
> > >>> can see the first 61 channels of cable thru the
> > VHS so I _SHOULD_ be
> > >>> able to get those channels, right?
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
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On 19 Nov 2002 at 12:52, Jeremy Oddo wrote:

> Wow, it's amazing how LITTLE information there is on the net :(
> Is there a way to find out which tuner you _should_ be using?
RTFM ;-) It IS in the documentation that is installed with your distro

try "locate bttv | more" for a start.

> Do I need to call this via modprobe or do I set it in xawtv?
the former, modprobe bttv tuner=x when x is number, if you have a phillips
ntsc tuner (likley) then you want tuner=2 or possibly tuner=6.

You might also look at the posting I made a few days ago under the multiple
tuner cards thread.

> Are there _any_ resources out there or do you just have to start flipping
> stuff and hope you run across it eventually?
As above RTFM, or search for the bttv mini-howto


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