tv tunner and Linux

[Brian Borowski]

You can check in linux/Documentation/video4linux/bttv, read the information
there, go to the web site(s) mentioned there, obtain the latest bttv (if
you wish), and also you should get xawtv which contains some command-line
utilities which will help you use the card.  You can do just audio, or you
can (if you use X), watch the thing, (don't know why you'd want to do that,
but some do), and you can also do video-capture/frame-grabbing...

Brian Borowski


On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Gregory Nowak wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I just got a hand me down bt878 tv tuner from
> a friend. Since the driver names on the cd for it
> begin with "bt848" and since I saw an option
> for that device right after
> the sound card options in make config, I did something probably dumb
> and thoughtless by choosing that option.
> The dmesg output says that mixer support for bt848 is registered.
> However, I'm not sure where to go from there,
> as I'm new to tv tuners in general.
> I guess my first question is do I need
> x to watch tv in Linux, or is there
> console software for that?
> If I don't need x, did I do the right  thing by choosing the bt848 option
> during make config?
> Does anyone know if there are drivers for bti78 under Linux
> (there weren't any on the cd that came with the tunner)?
> Hope somebody can provide some answers
> and excuse my ignorance (grin).
> Thanks for any help.
> Greg
>
>
>
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