Installing PEAK 138508AGPK DVB-T Digital TV Hybrid PCI Card

[pooky2483]

Having another bash at my TV Card. I have opened Terminal as root and I am having a bit more success.
I have found I can actually get it to scan channels now as before I was opening Terminal as normal and it was not letting me scan channels.
The only problem is that TVTime is coming up as showing No Signal but I have got it connected to my Video recorder which has my TiVo box connected to it so it is getting a signal and I am also playing a video so it will get either of the signals.
At the moment I am at a loss where to begin???

[pooky2483]

Amazingly, I've managed to get my TV Card working with TVTime but now theres no sound!
I typed

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sudo apt-get --purge remove tvtime

and it cleared what I was having problems with before - some config file that wouldn’t let me set the region e.g. Europe/USA etc...

Well, anyway, now I have no sound...

[Mark Greaves (PCNetSpec)]

Have you connected the TV/Capture card to the soundcard ?

[pooky2483]

Have you connected the TV/Capture card to the soundcard ?

Silly question...how do I do that?

[pooky2483]

Ive lost it now

I was looking through other sites and saw this http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/ubuntu-63/ubuntu10-10-there-is-no-volume-in-tvtime-838048/

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tvtime-configure --device=/dev/video1 --mixer=/proc/asound/EasyALSA1:monitor

so I tried it and lost picture, I think I changed EasyALSA1 to SAA7134.
Any idea how I can fix it?

[pooky2483]

Magaged to get picture back but still no sound...

[pooky2483]

Strangely it works through VLC with these settings (See screenshot) INCLUDING AUDIO!!!
But saying that, TVTime DOES NOT RECORD so I can forget that program and use VLC to record.
What I don't understand is I did NOTHING different to last time with either TVTime OR VLC, you can see what settings I 'tweaked' in VLC and ONLY them, so WHAT id different THIS TIME?

[pooky2483]

On about recording from VLC, where’s the record button???

[SeZo]

Go to View
Put tick by Advanced Controls
Buttonbar appears at the bottom with record button on it

[pooky2483]

Thanks Sezo, sorry for asking what is a simple question but I hardly ever use VLC.

Now, since using VLC, I just tried using TVTime again and got;
'frames too short from uvcvideo'

and then tried VLC and got
'Your input can't be opened:
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'v4l2:///dev/video1'. Check the log for details.'

Where can I find the log or have you an idea what I can do to fix the problem?

[pooky2483]

Here's another puzzling find.
Check out the screenshot in this post http://linuxforums.org.uk/index.php?topic=9778.75
and then the attached screenshot... I didn’t do anything to change it, also, I remember seeing another name which I think was Meridon or something similar.

[pooky2483]

I’ve set the path for VLC to write logs but there’s nothing there?
Did a bit of searching and sorted it
I got this;
-- logger module started --
main: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
v4l2 error: cannot set standard 0x10: Invalid argument
v4l2 error: cannot set standard 0x10: Invalid argument
v4l2 error: cannot set standard 0x10: Invalid argument
v4l2 error: cannot set standard 0x10: Invalid argument
main error: open of `v4l2:///dev/video1' failed
v4l2 error: cannot set standard 0x10: Invalid argument
v4l2 error: cannot set standard 0x10: Invalid argument
v4l2 error: cannot set standard 0x10: Invalid argument
v4l2 error: cannot set standard 0x10: Invalid argument
main error: open of `v4l2:///dev/video1' failed
-- logger module stopped --

Doesn’t tell me much!

[SeZo]

main error: open of `v4l2:///dev/video1' failed

It tells you that your card is not mapped to /dev/video1
Pluging in your USB camera could have changed the order

Try this to get the correct location:

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v4l-conf

And this to get available TV standards for the card:

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v4l2-ctl --list-standards

[pooky2483]

main error: open of `v4l2:///dev/video1' failed

It tells you that your card is not mapped to /dev/video1
Pluging in your USB camera could have changed the order

Try this to get the correct location:

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v4l-conf

And this to get available TV standards for the card:

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v4l2-ctl --list-standards

I had to install both commands before I could continue and got these results

pooky2483@pooky2483-ubuntu12:~$ v4l2-ctl --list-standards
ioctl: VIDIOC_ENUMSTD
   Index       : 0
   ID          : 0x000000000000 B000
   Name        : NTSC
   Frame period: 1001/30000
   Frame lines : 525

   Index       : 1
   ID          : 0x000000000000 1000
   Name        : NTSC-M
   Frame period: 1001/30000
   Frame lines : 525

   Index       : 2
   ID          : 0x000000000000 2000
   Name        : NTSC-M-JP
   Frame period: 1001/30000
   Frame lines : 525

   Index       : 3
   ID          : 0x000000000000 8000
   Name        : NTSC-M-KR
   Frame period: 1001/30000
   Frame lines : 525

   Index       : 4
   ID          : 0x000000000000 00FF
   Name        : PAL
   Frame period: 1/25
   Frame lines : 625

   Index       : 5
   ID          : 0x000000000000 0007
   Name        : PAL-BG
   Frame period: 1/25
   Frame lines : 625

   Index       : 6
   ID          : 0x000000000000 0008
   Name        : PAL-H
   Frame period: 1/25
   Frame lines : 625

   Index       : 7
   ID          : 0x000000000000 0010
   Name        : PAL-I
   Frame period: 1/25
   Frame lines : 625

   Index       : 8
   ID          : 0x000000000000 00E0
   Name        : PAL-DK
   Frame period: 1/25
   Frame lines : 625

   Index       : 9
   ID          : 0x000000000000 0100
   Name        : PAL-M
   Frame period: 1001/30000
   Frame lines : 525

   Index       : 10
   ID          : 0x000000000000 0200
   Name        : PAL-N
   Frame period: 1/25
   Frame lines : 625

   Index       : 11
   ID          : 0x000000000000 0400
   Name        : PAL-Nc
   Frame period: 1/25
   Frame lines : 625

   Index       : 12
   ID          : 0x000000000000 0800
   Name        : PAL-60
   Frame period: 1001/30000
   Frame lines : 525

   Index       : 13
   ID          : 0x0000000000FF 0000
   Name        : SECAM
   Frame period: 1/25
   Frame lines : 625

   Index       : 14
   ID          : 0x000000000001 0000
   Name        : SECAM-B
   Frame period: 1/25
   Frame lines : 625

   Index       : 15
   ID          : 0x000000000004 0000
   Name        : SECAM-G
   Frame period: 1/25
   Frame lines : 625

   Index       : 16
   ID          : 0x000000000008 0000
   Name        : SECAM-H
   Frame period: 1/25
   Frame lines : 625

   Index       : 17
   ID          : 0x000000000032 0000
   Name        : SECAM-DK
   Frame period: 1/25
   Frame lines : 625

   Index       : 18
   ID          : 0x000000000040 0000
   Name        : SECAM-L
   Frame period: 1/25
   Frame lines : 625

   Index       : 19
   ID          : 0x000000000080 0000
   Name        : SECAM-Lc
   Frame period: 1/25
   Frame lines : 625
pooky2483@pooky2483-ubuntu12:~$

[pooky2483]

Ah, also what you mentioned about my web cam, it was already plugged in the same time the TV Card and it was working but then for some reason just stopped working???