[plug] digital TV

Russ Pitman rjp at belle.apana.org.au
Wed Oct 15 00:09:08 WST 2003


Craig Ringer wrote:
> >>Anyone looking into tv gear under Linux would currently do well with a 
> >>saa7134 card like the $100 FlyVideo 3000, running with TvTime and 
> >>mplayer/mencoder. xawtv's radio app does the trick for radio input, too 
> >>- good quality stereo.
> >
> >Would you mind saying which kernel version TvTime is running on for you.
> 
> I'm running kernel 2.4.21 with saa7134 version 0.2.8 for my tvio card, 
> using tvtime 0.9.10 .
> 
> Other tv and misc "multimedia" related versions:
> 
> alevt-1.6.0
> gxine-0.3.3
> libdvdnav-0.1.9
> rivatv-0.8.3
> xine-lib-1-rc1
> lame-3.93.1
> libdvdread-0.9.4
> saa7134-0.2.8
> xine-ui-0.9.22
> ffmpeg-0.4.8
> libdvdcss-1.2.8
> nxtvepg-2.6.0
> xawtv-3.88
> alsa-driver-0.9.7b
> alsa-oss-0.9.6
> alsa-utils-0.9.7
> alsa-lib-0.9.7
> alsa-tools-0.9.7
> 
> I just did a big run of building apps to get what I wanted going, so 
> I've got a build/tvio directory with everything in it - that's just `ls` 
> output.
> 
> The TV card I'm using is a FlyVideo 3000:
> 
> 00:08.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7134 (rev 01)
> 00:08.0 Class 0480: 1131:7134 (rev 01)
> 
> Hope that's useful.

It sure will be,thanks heaps. Been trying for days to get a debian kernel
with saa7134 drivers included to actually work. Never thought that they
were available as a package.

Thanks again,
-- 
Cheers
Russ.

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