Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 22:44:04 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> 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>
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On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 08:04:02 +1100
Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> 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: <unknown card> (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).
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