Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 17:37:05 +0200 (MET DST) From: jphdumas@lemel.fr (JPH Dumas) To: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: fxtv pal-secam Message-ID: <199808051537.RAA23198@gmailint1.globalmail.net>
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I have an Hauppauge WinTV PCI, PAL-SECAM, I run 2.2.7+patch for CAM, with the brootree driver enabled. Screen is 1280x1024x32 76hz. The video card is an ATI Xpert@work 8M. fxtv sort of works, my antenna is worse than anything, but i can see that I receive some images on some channels. It does not crash, but when i push the wrong button, X get mad, the screen is out of sync obviously, and I have to ctrl+alt+bs. But no problems, I can live with it. OK, now some questions: - Is there a way to fine tune the frequency while fxtv is running, something like small increments/decrements bound to the + and - key, go back to programmed channel frequency by =. I may even volunteer to write this, if I know a little bit more about how to do it. I program no problems in C, but I don't have the slightest knowledge in X11 programming... - How can I know if the tuner in the card is a TEMIC or a PHILIPS ? at boot time the kernel tell me something about the card, sure, but *everytime* it is *different*, I have seen Intel, temic, philips, DBX, stereo, no tuner, etc. Everything. Don't tell me to remove the label on the tuner box on the board. - One thing that strikes me is that I never had the sound, exept the loud cling-clang when changing channel in audio-auto, so I switched to audio-internal. The hardware is SB64 AWE, I use snd0 and sbxxx drivers, but I don't know if it is ok. How to test this part ? Kernel is happy but I have no indication that at the app level everything is ok. -btw, is there somewhere a awe64 driver ? (I tried the 32, no joy.) -In the last bt848 driver I found, a file is missing : opt-bktr.h, I had to backtrack to the vanilla code of 2.2.7. Where can I find a *complete* bt848 driver source, recent of course, or at least the opt-bktr.h -The tuner in this card seems to be a zillion times less sensitive (a with a zillion times worse s/n ratio) than regular TV, is this true ? any figure about it ? - Is there any way to go full screen ? The window limit to 640x578 (or something), i.e. a fourth of the screen surface. Well, I can probably set XF86config for a 640x480 full screen. Is there an easy way to do this at startx time ? (my XF86config is voluntarily restricted to 1280x1024, but I just have to uncomment 640x480 32 100hz, I hope) -a paranoid question : is the frequency table really set for SECAM in France ? (In a short try of xawtv in Linux, I saw clearly that the best reception was by fine tuning in betwenn the channels, in the version I had the channels where set only for PAL & NTSC. I don't know if PAL and SECAM share the frequency/channel assignement) -How do I know that the fxtv/driver recognize the DSP chip supposed to give me stereo NICAM sound ? It is on the board. -What about /dev/mix, I don't have a /dev/mix, what should it be ? (I don't remember which program keeps complaining about it, I tried quite some this afternoon, and I have to walk to use the net) Jean-Pierre H. Dumas jphdumas@lemel.fr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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