From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed Jan 22 13: 4:11 2003 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 1719737B401 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 13:04:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (phoenix.welearn.com.au [139.130.44.81]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 996E043E4A for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 13:04:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sue@welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h0ML42c81591 for freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 08:04:02 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from sue) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 08:04:02 +1100 From: Sue Blake To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: TV tuner in Australia Message-ID: <20030123080402.A79280@welearn.com.au> Mail-Followup-To: Sue Blake , freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I've just bought a Hauppage WinTV-GO model 686 and I'm having trouble sorting out all the possible reasons why it doesn't work. I get three channels (using fxtv), but only in black and white with a hint of pastel colours, and no sound whatsoever. For starters it doesn't look real good in dmesg: bktr0: mem 0xe8002000-0xe8002fff irq 11 at device 9.0 on pci0 iicbb0: on bti2c0 iicbus0: on iicbb0 master-only smbus0: on bti2c0 bktr0: Hauppauge Model 44844 D148 bktr0: Warning - Unknown Hauppauge Tuner 0x30 bktr0: Detected a MSP3415G-B8 at 0x80 bktr0: Hauppauge WinCast/TV, Philips NTSC tuner, msp3400c stereo. pci0: (vendor=0x109e, dev=0x0878) at 9.1 irq 11 but the fact that it does pick up something gives me hope. Now those who understand TV tell me that we use PAL B here, and that we can get both VHS and UHF which is better. I only have a VHS external antenna, and a small indoor one which does UHF. A real TV worked here, badly but plenty good enough for me, with either antenna. I don't mind black and white, snowy and yuk, but I'd like to get a couple more channels or at least some sound. Does the fact that it presents as "NTSC tuner" in dmesg mean that I can't use it here because we're PAL? (Yes I remembered to select PAL in fxtv, and tried the others just in case.) Am I likely to be seeing sound problems similar to PR kern/46872 ? If so, that patch looks like it has all the wrong numbers for me :-( If this card simply isn't ever going to work, for which reason and how can I check that another card will work before purchase? If there is hope for getting this tuner to work better, or at least give audio, which problem should I be tackling first? -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message