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

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In tvtime, what have you got set as the video source ?

Setup video source
Input Configuration > Change Video Source > Setup source as per your setup

Setup frequencies table
You need to setup the channels you are receiving with the tuner … try the europe frequencies table.
Channel management > Change Frequency table > Select new table

Scan Channel
Finally, you need to scan for channels
Channel management > Change Frequency table > Scan channels for signal > Back > Exit

did it find anything ?

You could also try running:

sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/saa7134.conf

and changing:
options saa7134 card=78 tuner=54
to
options saa7134 card=81 tuner=54

SAVE the file and REBOOT … then test again in TvTime.

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Not got anywhere with it, even got 2 boxes to test it on and still nothing

83

Did you try the bit I just added to my last posting ?

84

No but will give it a try

85

I’ve been doing a bit of searching myself and found this JustLinux Forums
Don’t know if its where you got any of your info from, will any of it be any more help (if I cant get it working after trying your last suggestion?).

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That was one of the places I noticed “card=81” :slight_smile:

87

Tried it but still not working.
I have noticed something tho’… In Arista, when selecting a location, strangely the card showed up, in three formats. I didnt think to get a screenshot but after it has finished converting I will upload a screenshot.

I am also going to start another thread on trying to get the TV card to work with VLC so not to clutter this thread up too much.

How do I get a screenshot when theres a drop-down menu, I cant use ‘Priint-Screen’ as this doesnt work when theres a drop-down menu.

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Use the Screenshot application, and set say a 10 second delay … then quickly pull up the menu, and wait for the screenshot to be taken.

[EDIT]

If the tuner isn’t being configured correctly … it’s not going to work in ANY application.

Can you run tvtime … then open a terminal and run:

dmesg > ~/dmesg.txt

The post the file called dmesg.txt (that you’ll find in your Home directory) as an attachment.

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Genius ;D 8)

http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/7686/aristaz.th.jpg

Cheers

90

Heres the .txt file

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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???

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

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…

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

94

Silly question…how do I do that?

95

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/

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?

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Magaged to get picture back but still no sound…

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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?

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

99

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

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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?