[MPlayer-users] No cable input from tv card

[Shocky]

Hi,

I have an old Zoltrix TV-Max tv capture pci card. I can't find a model number, 
and it's too old to get any technical specs from Zoltrix. It has a BT848AKPF 
chip on the card. It shows up in lspci as:

00:0a.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt848 Video Capture 
(rev 12)

The card has s-video, composite a/v, and rf television inputs. I can view 
video from a camcorder through either the s-video or composite inputs (no 
sound, but that's a story for another day). But when I hook up my cable to 
the rf input, I don't get anything but static on every channel.

I'm running mplayer under Mandriva 2006 Linux, with a 2.6.12-22mdk kernel, and 
driving the card with the bttv module, on an Athlon XP system. I compiled 
mplayer today from svn, revision 20653.

I get the same results with kdetv as with mplayer, so the problem is probably 
not with mplayer (my apologies if I shouldn't be bringing it to this list).

Any suggestions? Is there possibly some configuration option I need on the 
bttv module or elsewhere? Or am I out of luck with this card?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.