[MPlayer-users] No cable input from tv card

[Nico Sabbi]

Shocky wrote:

>Thanks for the fast response. I just need a little more info.
>
>The only video related module I was explicitly loading was bttv in 
>my /etc/modprobe.preload. There was a line in /etc/modprobe.conf:
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>options bttv vbibufs=32 gbuffers=32
>
>that I changed to:
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>options bttv vbibufs=32 gbuffers=32 card=15
>
>and rebooted, but that didn't help. So I tried the following to see which bttv 
>related modules were loaded:
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>  
>
[...]
there's still the chance that your tuner is not supported at all;
first of all you should identify the tuner model (usually labelled
under the sticker)

>Do you think loading the bt878 module with the card=15 option would help? Is 
>it possible that there is sufficient compatibility between them for it to 
>work? 
>  
>

card is a parameter for bttv, as you correctly pointed out

>Any other possibilities you can suggest?
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>

try asking to video4linux mailing list. some other user may have a card 
like yours working