[MPlayer-users] No cable input from tv card

[Nico Sabbi]

Shocky wrote:

>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.
>
>  
>
you have to load bt8x8 with the appropriate card= option,
based on the tuner that your card uses (the shielded component
with the RF input)