Mailing List Archive: bttv or v4l?

bttv or v4l?

Oct 2, 2002, 12:42 PM

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Guys,

is mythtv hardwired to use bttv or will any v4l compliant device suffice?

The reason I'm asking is because my MSI Geforce4 ti4600 has a video-in/tv-out
connector. There's a project, called RivaTV (http://rivatv.sourceforge.net/)
that provides a v4l device for NVidia based video-in cards. I tried it on
Monday and I could use xawtv to watch tv.

In light of this, I'd like to remove my WinTV card and use mythtv with my
video card. Will that be possible with the current codebase?

Thanks,
IvanK.

ps: is it of any consequence that the video card doesn't have a tuner (of
course)? I wasn't using the one on my WinTV either, as my cable provider
uses a decoder cable box which does the channel switching.

Re: bttv or v4l? [ In reply to ]

chepati at yahoo

Oct 2, 2002, 12:57 PM

Post #2 of 3 (2157 views)

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RTFM.

I have to reply to myself after seeing the requirements section on the
website.

Quote:

A TV card. Can't really watch TV without one, right? Pretty much anything that
works with V4L should be fine.

End of quote.

Ok, I guess it should work. I'll try it then.

Thanks,
IvanK.

On Wednesday 02 October 2002 03:42 pm, IvanK. wrote:
> Guys,
>
> is mythtv hardwired to use bttv or will any v4l compliant device suffice?
>
> The reason I'm asking is because my MSI Geforce4 ti4600 has a
> video-in/tv-out connector. There's a project, called RivaTV
> (http://rivatv.sourceforge.net/) that provides a v4l device for NVidia
> based video-in cards. I tried it on Monday and I could use xawtv to watch
> tv.
>
> In light of this, I'd like to remove my WinTV card and use mythtv with my
> video card. Will that be possible with the current codebase?
>
> Thanks,
> IvanK.
>
> ps: is it of any consequence that the video card doesn't have a tuner (of
> course)? I wasn't using the one on my WinTV either, as my cable provider
> uses a decoder cable box which does the channel switching.
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Re: bttv or v4l? [ In reply to ]

ijr at po

Oct 2, 2002, 6:00 PM

Post #3 of 3 (2149 views)

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On Wednesday 02 October 2002 03:57 pm, IvanK. wrote:
> RTFM.
>
> I have to reply to myself after seeing the requirements section on the
> website.
>
> Quote:
>
>
> A TV card. Can't really watch TV without one, right? Pretty much anything
> that works with V4L should be fine.
>
> End of quote.
>
> Ok, I guess it should work. I'll try it then.

It _should_ work, as long as the V4L implementation for it supports mmap
interface.

Isaac