Comments on: Watching Television on Linux: setting up a TV Tuner card

By: DriverFinder

DriverFinder — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:18:27 +0000

I can too confirm that MythTV works with this driver and my Pinnacle PCTV 50i ! Thanks for this guide really great help!

By: krishna

krishna — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:47:50 +0000

Hi Prashant,

I could successfully install Myth TV with the same card. I have Ubuntu Hardy Heron OS. And it works great. I am not able to configure the remote at the moment, though.
Thanks for suggesting the card.

Cheers,
Krishna

By: Shahi

Shahi — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:25:43 +0000

Your blog is good but can you tell me how will scan tv channels using mplayer………????????
There is one option i.e -tvscan autostart in mplayer but it read all frquencies which have not signals……..

By: Valente

Valente — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:50:38 +0000

tvtime display fine video and sound
same with motv

but I can’t make either mencoder nor mplayer to get the SOUND, they only get video OK, but no SOUND

they don get nothing from /dev/dsp

Here is my list of hardware
lspci
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 03)
02:04.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7133/SAA7135 Video Broadcast Decoder (rev 10)

asoundconf list
Names of available sound cards:
Intel
SAA7134

cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
HDA Intel at 0xcfe38000 irq 16
1 [SAA7134 ]: SAA7134 - SAA7134
saa7133[0] at 0xcfffe800 irq 16

lsmod | grep -i snd
snd_hda_intel 344728 3
snd_pcm_oss 42144 0
snd_mixer_oss 17920 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 78596 3 saa7134_alsa,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd_page_alloc 11400 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
snd_hwdep 10500 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_seq_dummy 4868 0
snd_seq_oss 35584 0
snd_seq_midi 9376 0
snd_rawmidi 25760 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 8320 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 54224 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 24836 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 9612 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd 56996 18 saa7134_alsa,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_hwdep,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore 8800 1 snd

and doing this:
cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp

I get noise on speakers (as it should be)

Please advise me what to do

Best Regards

By: prashanthellina

prashanthellina — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:19:07 +0000

Krisha, that’s great. I’ve been intending to but did not get around to doing it.

By: Krishna

Krishna — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:52:11 +0000

Hey Prashanth,

It has worked for me. Thank you very much for the post.

One query, have you tried Myth TV?

cheers,
Krishna

By: prashanthellina

prashanthellina — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:37:55 +0000

I do not know if mplayer/mencoder can scan channels. I used scantv (http://linux.die.net/man/1/scantv).

By: she

she — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 19:25:11 +0000

Nice hint

does anyone have more info with mencoder?
Especially with scanning _only_ with mplayer/mencoder?

tvtime and xawtv are slowly dying

By: prashanthellina

prashanthellina — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:42:10 +0000

Whether the card works on not is totally independent from the cable operator. If it works for Doordarshan, it should work for Tata Sky too.

By: Ik

Ik — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:07:54 +0000

Hi,

Have anybody tested the same with TATA Sky ?

By: prashanthellina

prashanthellina — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:57:59 +0000

Hi there! NVIDIA does have TV tuner cards but googling doesn’t paint a good picture for linux compatibility.

By: bg

bg — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 21:06:03 +0000

nvidia provides good tv tuner cards. they are all in one ,so i guess it will work for Linux