[ubuntu-za] Video Broadcast Controller

[Robert Holm]

On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 09:51 +0200, wayne wrote:
> Robert Holm wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 20:54 +0200, wayne wrote:
> 
> > At least I know now that the saa7134 chip does work for someone, which
> > gives me the incentive to carry on trying, Re-reading my output I notice
> > that the tuner type 41 sets the signal type to Philips PAL_MK which I am
> > sure is incorrect so I will have to run through the gamut of numbers one
> > by one until I get PAL_B, which hopefully will make a difference.
> > 
> > TVtime-viewer looks like a very nice app.
> > 
> > Will report back if (when?) I am successful. In the meantime thanks to
> > Wayne and Lee for the responses.
> > 
> > Robert
> > 
> > 
> 
> You might be on the correct track, However no need to change the tv 
> system at a low level, this is done on app level, just go into the 
> tvtime settings,F1 and select PAL-I ,
> 
> 
The rationale was based on the following quotes I found on one of the
wikis:

"While applications like TVtime, KDETV etc. allow you to set the TV
standard, this apparently does not work on saa7130/34 cards...."

"If the 'saa7134 module" and thus the card is configured for NTSC, you
will not detect any PAL channels inside TVtime even if you set the TV
Standard to PAL mode. The "saa7134 module" seems to remain in NTSC mode.
If you reconfigure the "saa7134 module" to PAL mode outside the
application, then the PAL channels are detectable."

I don't know whether this is true or not, but I've reached the stage
where I'll try *anything* - (twice!).

Robert