AverTV Media on Ubuntu
by Jacob on Aug.25, 2007, under Technical
I have an old TV tuner card that I picked up in 2002. I can’t remember exactly what type of card it is, but after searching around the internet, I’m somewhat convinced that it is the AverTV Media (with FM tuner). The card identifies itself as an AverTV Phone something or another, but I know it isn’t any of their “phone” variety of cards.
The card has an analog TV tuner, and FM tuner, composite in, s-video in, audio in and audio out (it mixes the audio in with the tuner’s audio and sends it to audio out).
I’m currently using Kubuntu 7.04.
When I first tried using the card, I saw somewhat of screwed up black and white video. I fixed it by creating a file /etc/modprobe.d/bttv which contains
options bttv card=6 gbuffers=8 audiomux=0x0e,0x04,0x08,0x04,0 gpiomask=0x0f tuner=2 radio=1
This allowed me to get video in to xawtv. When I tried running scantv, I got an error message back about “vbi: open failed [/dev/vbi]” but then I ran it again with scantv -C /dev/vbi0 and it worked.
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