[mythtv-users] SAA7133 angst!

[Gary Marsh]

It's got a regular Phillips-style metal box, with both TV and FM tuners
integrated. There was a Flyvideo "powered by Phillips" label stuck on top
with a NTSC box checked, which I peeled off.. but I couldn't get a part
number for the tuner.

The main chip is a SAA7133.

- GM

> Does the card have the traditional RF tuner enclosed in a metal case or
> is this missing?
>
> I recently acquired a couple of flyvideo platinum cards (SAA7135) which
> advertised as the replacement for the flyvideo 3000, but found that they
> don't work in linux yet. The problem is that a new philips all silicon
> tuner/encoder chip combination is being used instead of the old analogue
> RF components. The SAA7134 driver obviously doesn't know how to turn on
> the encoder or drive the tuner.
>
> If this is the case, I don't think you'll get it working for some time.
> I returned the cards in the end and exchanged them for bog-standard
> flyvideo 3000 cards which work great.
>
> Derek.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Marsh [mailto:gmarsh at housewarez.net]
> Sent: Friday, 23 January 2004 1:15 a.m.
> To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> Subject: [mythtv-users] SAA7133 angst!
>
>
> I picked up a FlyVideo 3100, SAA7133-based card for my MythTV box
> afterwards, and I've tried a whole bunch of things but I can't get this
> card to work.
>
> mythbackend crashes when I choose 'watch TV', leaving the following
> lines in the log file:
>
> 2004-01-20 17:13:17 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV Unknown video
> codec: open: Device or resource busy
> open: Device or resource busy
>
> and, xawtv simply won't show any video - it gives me a blank screen, and
> in the shell window where I start xawtv it shows a whole bunch of ioctl
> errors (i can't remember offhand what they are unfortunately.. overlay
> problems i think) in its window.
>
> dmesg reveals an interesting line, which is repeated...
> tuner: TV freq (268435455.93) out of range (44-958)
>
> I'm running Gentoo, with a vanilla-sources 2.4.24 kernel and the kraxel
> v4l2 patch from bytesex.org applied. I've tried the snapshot video4linux
> patch too, still no joy.
>
> I'm inserting the module as follows:
>
> modprobe tvaudio
> modprobe tuner
> modprobe saa7134 card=2 tuner=2 (which corresponds to the FlyVideo 3000)
>
> Any hints/suggestions/past experience from anyone? thanks.
>
> - GM
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