Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 22:50:57 -0800 From: Patrick Hajek <pphajek@lbl.gov> To: Chris BeHanna <chris@behanna.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD 5.2 RC issue with bktr and no accompanying sound. Message-ID: <20031218065057.GA5020@lbl.gov> In-Reply-To: <200312172019.56458.chris@behanna.org> References: <20031217214343.GB3774@lbl.gov> <200312172019.56458.chris@behanna.org>
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I connected a cable from the line out of the Hauppauge WinTV card
to the line-in of the sound card and was unable to detect any signal.
To determine any signal from the line-out of the TV card, I connect
a head phone set to it and was unable to hear anything.
Curious if
bktr0: Detected a MSP34255?-?31 at 0x80
bktr0: STB TV/PCI, Philips FR1236 NTSC FM tuner, dbx stereo, msp3400c stereo.
pci2: <multimedia> at device 6.1 (no driver attached)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
this is related?
Any suggestions is appreciated.
Patrick
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 08:19:56PM -0500, Chris BeHanna wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 December 2003 16:43, Patrick Hajek wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I have a Hauppauge WinTV Card (Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture)
> > on my Freebsd 5.2 RC box and after invoking either mplayer, fxtv, or xautv,
> > the video portion is rendered nicely on my desktop and I am able change the
> > channels however there is no sound accompanying the video. After
> > google'ing it appears there are previous issues with the MSP34XX_DRIVER.
> > One post suggested to add the options listed below in the kernel config
> > file, which I did .
> > The problem persisted. The /dev/mixer and /dev/dsp does function correctly
> > adding a timeout to the driver.
> >
> > Any patches, or suggestion would be appeciated.
> > The only indication I have is that the audio portion of the ntsc stream
> > isn't bound to a driver-- if that's the correct term ;-)
>
> The fix is to get a short stereo patch cable (mini, male at both
> ends) and run it from the WinTV card to line-in on your sound card,
> then use mixer (or your favorite GUI front-end to mixer) to turn up
> the rec level.
>
> AFAIK, that's the only way to get sound from the WinTV card to
> your sound card.
>
> In fact, my WinTV Go! card came with the requisite cable.
>
> --
> Chris BeHanna
> Software Engineer (Remove "bogus" before responding.)
> chris@bogus.behanna.org
> Turning coffee into software since 1990.
>
>
>
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