[plug] digital TV

[Craig Ringer]

> 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.

Well, it's available from www.bytesex.org, the website of the guy who 
does v4l, bttv, saa7134, etc. The modules are built out-of-tree against 
the current kernel, but you'll still have to patch v4l2 into the kernel 
so there's a kernel rebuild in there for you anyway.

saa7134 has only recently started working well enough to be really 
useful, at least with my hardware. It's running extremely well now, the 
only glitch I'm having is that sometimes it takes a second try to tune 
the audio channel in with tvtime - I suspect tvtime is assuming some 
bttv behaviour that's not true with saa7134. Oh, and I haven't got 
mencoder to record AUDIO yet - *sigh*. ffmpeg will do it, but the video 
quality appears to be crap. Just can't win I guess.

Craig Ringer

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