<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Daniel Faulknor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:daniel@danielfaulknor.com">daniel@danielfaulknor.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi All,<br>
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Has anyone had any luck with BT878 tuners?<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Yes, I used to use one. If you've got enough CPU power to take the hit when encoding they're fine (in fact you can allegedly get a better picture than with a PVR-150 if you are willing to take the time to tune all the parameters).<br>
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I have a PVR-150, and a BT878 (Its some dogdy pixelview one)<br>
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It's picked up ok by the bttv drivers (ive specified the card<br>
in /etc/modprobe.d/bttv.conf), </blockquote><div><br>Have you got the correct tuner chip set? The BT878 is actually only the video capture chip, it doesn't do the tuning. BT878 cards can have any one of dozens of tuner chips. See, e.g. <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/BTTV/modprobe.html#TUNMOD">http://tldp.org/HOWTO/BTTV/modprobe.html#TUNMOD</a>. If the card can capture ok from the composite (or svideo) input then you need to set up the tuner correctly. If the composite/svideo doesn't work either then you've got bigger problems.<br>
<br></div></div>Cheers,<br>Steve<br>