[wellylug] TV Capture

[jumbophut]

On 12/30/05, David Murray wrote:
>
> I too bought one of those [saa7134] cards from Dick Smith.
>
> I too couldn't get any TV channels working - and I tried several different
> programmes to get it working.
>
> I gave up on it. :o(
>

I use xawtv as the viewer.

With 2.4 kernels, you need kernel patches (http://linux.bytesex.org/)
and I have to pull some wierd stuff to get stereo sound working.

With 2.6, it just works.

I think mine was a Flyview Xpert 98, but I'm not sure.  lspci gives:
00:0e.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors: Unknown device
7134 (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Unknown device 5168:0138
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 128, IRQ 5
        Memory at fceeec00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 1

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Tony (echo 'spend!,pocket awide' | sed 'y/acdeikospntw!, /l at omcgtjuba.phi/')