From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 9 02:42:36 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C204716A4DD for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2006 02:42:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from y.pankov@irbis.net.ru) Received: from navarro.irbis.net.ru (navarro.irbis.net.ru [85.118.141.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 490F143D46 for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2006 02:42:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from y.pankov@irbis.net.ru) Received: by navarro.irbis.net.ru (Postfix, from userid 106) id 51C24627873; Sun, 9 Jul 2006 06:42:34 +0400 (MSD) Received: from klamath.irbis.net.ru (klamath.irbis.net.ru [192.168.0.64]) by navarro.irbis.net.ru (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D81F627842; Sun, 9 Jul 2006 06:42:33 +0400 (MSD) Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 06:42:02 +0400 From: Yuri Pankov To: Danny Pansters Message-ID: <20060709064202.67821248@klamath.irbis.net.ru> In-Reply-To: <200606260031.14560.danny@ricin.com> References: <20060625094739.GA3397@underworld.novel.ru> <200606260031.14560.danny@ricin.com> Organization: Irbis Telecommunications, JSC X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.3.1 (GTK+ 2.8.19; amd64-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: choosing a TV Tuner X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2006 02:42:36 -0000 On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 00:31:14 +0200, Danny Pansters wrote: > On Sunday 25 June 2006 11:48, Roman Bogorodskiy wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm going to buy some TV tuner. The nearest store has the following > > models: > > - AverMedia TV/FM Studio (307, 505, 507) > > saa driver. 20 euros, cheap and good enough. > > > - BEHOLDER TV/FM Studio (403/405, 409) > > saa driver > > > - RoverMedia TV Link Pro FM (P34RF) > > don't know, might be bktr > > > > > Which one if these is the best in terms of working on FreeBSD? > > A bktr based one, because that's what most people have, though saa > might produce a nicer image (and they are much more prevalent on the > retailer shelves these days I think). > > > Roman Bogorodskiy > > Saa driver: purpe.com (or try multimedia/kbtv). It has some problems > though, most notably some tuner types (Philips MK, the one I have) > can't find their (former) frequency back after my box has been shut > down (not rebooted but shut down), and I need to tune it to some > channel in Linux first. It's a known problem, related to signal > detection. I'm (slowly) looking into finding a way to solve this in > kbtv. > > > HTH, > > Dan Hi, Dan. Can you give some advices on how to tune AverMedia 507 to given frequency? I've no other OSes on this machine. I've used saa driver from your kbtv-1.1.1 tarball. Changed lines in Makevars are: TUNER_FLAGS+= -DTUNER_APITYPE_PHILIPS_MK3 TUNER_FLAGS+= -DTUNER_WR_I2CADDR=0xc2 -DTUNER_RD_I2CADDR=0xc3 after loading the driver: saa0: mem 0xf6004000-0xf60047ff irq 19 at device 7.0 on pci1 pcib1: saa0 requested memory range 0xf6004000-0xf60047ff: good saa0: [MPSAFE] iicbus0: on saa0 iic0: on iicbus0 pciconf: saa0@pci1:7:0: class=0x048000 card=0x97151461 chip=0x71331131 rev=0xd1 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Philips Semiconductors' device = 'SAA7135HL Multi Media Capture Device' class = multimedia But tune_channels can't find any channel, set_channel /dev/iic0 and running tvv shows only black window. Yuri