From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed Jan 22 13:44:17 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 C839737B401 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 13:44:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp4.wanadoo.nl (smtp4.wanadoo.nl [194.134.35.175]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C61A143ED8 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 13:44:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from steve@sohara.org) Received: from ams-gw.sohara.org (i0930.vwr.wanadoo.nl [194.134.211.166]) by smtp4.wanadoo.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 8D5003E4E8; Wed, 22 Jan 2003 22:44:07 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 22:44:04 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: Sue Blake Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TV tuner in Australia Message-Id: <20030122224404.0a817bb0.steve@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20030123080402.A79280@welearn.com.au> References: <20030123080402.A79280@welearn.com.au> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.8 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) X-Face: %]+HVL}K`P8>+8ZcY-WGHP6j@&mxMo9JH6_WdgIgUGH)JX/usO0%jy7T~IVgqjumD^OBqX,Kv^- GM6mlw(fI^$"QRKyZ$?xx/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 08:04:02 +1100 Sue Blake wrote: SB> bktr0: Hauppauge WinCast/TV, Philips NTSC tuner, msp3400c stereo. This has always puzzled me - the BT848 documentation talks about autodetecting PAL/NTSC - so I'm not sure what's special about the tuner between PAL and NTSC. OTOH both exist and I'm sure there's a reason :( Certainly every working setup I know of has tuner type matching signal type. SB> pci0: (vendor=0x109e, dev=0x0878) at 9.1 irq Don't worry about this one - everyone with an 878 card gets it AFAICT. SB> Now those who understand TV tell me that we use PAL B here, and that SB> we can get both VHS and UHF which is better. I only have a VHS SB> external antenna, and a small indoor one which does UHF. A real TV It all depends on what that tuner covers - it should be described on the little scrap of paper that passes for a manual :) I found it easier to work with frequency settings than trying to use the channel tables which never seemed to get everything. Mplayer is a convenient tool for TV by frequency BTW (it also does much nicer full screen than fxtv). SB> Am I likely to be seeing sound problems similar to PR kern/46872 ? SB> If so, that patch looks like it has all the wrong numbers for me :-( Yes - the workaround described in the PR should work for you if you can't apply the patches. SB> If this card simply isn't ever going to work, for which reason and I have bad feelings about that NTSC tuner - if you bought it locally take it back and complain loudly (unless NTSC is also common around you in which case they should be used to it so ask nicely). If you bought it long distance get the next one locally or from a PAL country (Europe mostly but watch out for SECAM). -- C:>WIN | Directable Mirrors The computer obeys and wins. |A Better Way To Focus The Sun You lose and Bill collects. | licenses available - see: | http://www.sohara.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message