Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 00:50:07 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Just purchased a bt848 based "Turbo TV" card. Message-ID: <457.888828607@time.cdrom.com>
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They're selling for $99 at Fry's Electronics in Palo Alto, CA. so I deemed it prudent to pick one up so that we could test it. Perhaps the unit I got is merely defective, but I'm totally unable to get it to see output from my VCR, set to broadcast on channel 3. Under fxtv I at least get what looks like noise, under Win95 I just get a solid blue screen and no indication that the unit is receiving any signal. I've also tested the cable, of course, and my TV has no problem receiving the VCR's signal on channel 3 when I plug it in over there. Using my little CCD video camera, I'm also able to get a picture just fine on the video input so the card's not totally dysfunctional, it just doesn't seem to want to "tune in" (and the thought of giving it hallucinogenic drugs did cross my mind, but I see no easy way to do that either :-). Any suggestions from Amancio or others? One nice side benefit to this was that I was able to merge the latest driver changes from 3.0 to 2.2 and test them, at least, so even if I can't get the RF input to work it's not a total loss. Also, how are people hooking up the audio on their cards? On this one, at least, the supplied cables are for Macintosh only and I'm getting the sneaking suspicion that one uses the audio output jack to loop the signal back into one's audio card line-in jack - is that what fxtv expects to happen? Thanks! Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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