Re: [tlug] My first PVR project - advice will not be distained

[Jim Tittsler <jwt-tlug@example.com>]

On Jun 13, 2006, at 11:13, Joshua Eli Bearden wrote:

> My first obstacle has been the V-gear Speed-TV tuner card
> that my friend gave me in a swap. Though it shows up as an
> SAA7133 Philips Semiconductor chip on lspci  and lsmod shows
> that an SAA7134 driver (which is supposed to handle all
> SAA713x chips) is loaded.  I cannot get any further response
> from the card.
Have you tried all of the (many!) card/tuner options in your  
modprobe.conf?
I bought a Keian JH-TV7131R for under Y4000 at my neighborhood shop 
[1].  It took a lot of Googling and experimenting to discover that
  options saa7134 card=65 tuner=54
seems to work.  And that the card is a variant of the Kworld TV  
Terminator.  Even after finding the Kworld clue, it took some trial- 
and-error with several card/tuner combinations until I found the one  
that worked with this particular implementation.
I haven't been able to get the IR receiver working.  And the tuner  
does not appear to cover the BS-analog downconverter I/F frequency,  
so I end up using the tuner in the VCR if I want to record BS.   
Simultaneous software encoding/decoding with mencoder/mplayer works  
fine in the 2.4GHz P4 cube that is under the TV.  ffmpeg and  
transcode help with making VCDs and small versions that I can fetch  
from bandwidth starved countries.


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