TV Tuner cards

Steve bassix at gmail.com
Wed Aug 10 18:49:39 UTC 2005


On 8/10/05, Thomas Kaiser (ubuntu) <ubuntu at kaiser-linux.li> wrote:
>
> Just today, I insert a TV card which I bought 5 years ago or so in my
> brand new AMD64 box.
> lspci shows:
> 0000:05:06.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878
> Video Capture (rev 02)
> 0000:05:06.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio
> Capture (rev 02)
> 
> The card is working out of the box with Ubuntu 5.04. For the sound I had
> to plug a cable from the line out of the TVcard to the line in of my
> box. As far as I understand this, the TV card "only" provides a
> framegrabber to get the TV signal digital and the sound is just, like on
> a normal tv demodulated, and sent to the lineout of the TVcard. Thus,
> your sound card has to do the work to have it inside your PC. But this
> card is very old (one of the first TVcard for a good prise, these days
> :-). Maybe things changed, and the TVcard will do the audio processing,
> too. I have now idea.
> 
> I just were very happy that this old card is runing in my AMD64 Ubuntu
> Box :-).
> 
> May this information helps you.
> 
> BTW, I use tvtime, too. Nice tool ;-).
> 
> Regards, Thomas

Hi Thomas,

Yes I think that most cards require the audio jumper cable. I have my
TV at nywhere set up that way, but there is only static on the line input
(no tuned TV channel). But I've discovered that is "normal" for this
card! :-(

Thanks for the info.

-Steve.

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