Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 23:14:26 -0500 From: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@ipass.net> To: Patrick Mackeown <pgm@NS4.HELP-DESK.CO.UK> Cc: Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk>, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Should I throw away this TV card? Message-ID: <19991122231426.A4435@ipass.net> In-Reply-To: <199911211714.RAA00502@NS4.HELP-DESK.CO.UK> References: <199911211714.RAA00502@NS4.HELP-DESK.CO.UK>
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Patrick Mackeown:
| I bought a cheap TV card IMS TV Turbo, Philips FR1236 NTSC FM tuner
^^^^
|bktr0: <BrookTree 878> rev 0x02 int a irq 11 on pci0.9.0
|IMS TV Turbo, Philips FR1236 NTSC FM tuner.
|
|even the tweeking sysctl -w hw.bt848.tuner=10
|manages to produce nothing but a blank screen.
brooktree848.c:
#define PHILIPS_FR1236_NTSC 9 <--- what you have
#define PHILIPS_FR1216_PAL 10
#define PHILIPS_FR1236_SECAM 11
| I run fxtv with these options.
|fxtv -antennaFreqSet weurope -inputFormat pal
Well, if you really have an NTSC tuner, you have a card that doesn't
support PAL. I doubt that trying to configure it as a PAL tuner is going
to help much ;-)
|I'm thinking of throwing the card away and buying a more expensive one, do
|you think it's worth trying any other last minute options?
Roger may have a trick or two up his sleeve, but I think you're going to
have to buy a card with a PAL tuner, ...or just move to the USA :-)
However, it may not be a total write-off. You can receive 'some' FM radio
stations on a stock NTSC board I've discovered, even those without radio
advertised. Though I don't know if FM radio in Europe follows the same
modulation standard.
Randall
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