[ubuntu-za] Video Broadcast Controller

[wayne]

Robert Holm wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 09:51 +0200, wayne wrote:
>> Robert Holm wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 20:54 +0200, wayne wrote:
>>> At least I know now that the saa7134 chip does work for someone, which
>>> gives me the incentive to carry on trying, Re-reading my output I notice
>>> that the tuner type 41 sets the signal type to Philips PAL_MK which I am
>>> sure is incorrect so I will have to run through the gamut of numbers one
>>> by one until I get PAL_B, which hopefully will make a difference.
>>>
>>> TVtime-viewer looks like a very nice app.
>>>
>>> Will report back if (when?) I am successful. In the meantime thanks to
>>> Wayne and Lee for the responses.
>>>
>>> Robert
>>>
>>>
>> You might be on the correct track, However no need to change the tv 
>> system at a low level, this is done on app level, just go into the 
>> tvtime settings,F1 and select PAL-I ,
>>
>>
> The rationale was based on the following quotes I found on one of the
> wikis:
> 
> "While applications like TVtime, KDETV etc. allow you to set the TV
> standard, this apparently does not work on saa7130/34 cards...."
> 
> "If the 'saa7134 module" and thus the card is configured for NTSC, you
> will not detect any PAL channels inside TVtime even if you set the TV
> Standard to PAL mode. The "saa7134 module" seems to remain in NTSC mode.
> If you reconfigure the "saa7134 module" to PAL mode outside the
> application, then the PAL channels are detectable."
> 
> I don't know whether this is true or not, but I've reached the stage
> where I'll try *anything* - (twice!).
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
Hi Robert

This is definately not true in my case,, I did not have to configure 
anything outside the App.

Wayne A