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Prolink PixelView PlayTV pro
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1 41842 09-13-2004
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Description: Another bt878 based tv-fm card. Under SuSE 9.0 it worked just fine. Tvtime, zapping, kwintv or xawtv to watch tv, and kradio to listen to radio.
I don't know if the vendor switches these chips under the same brand (it can be a problem), but this info was important when I setup my card under SuSE 9.0:

Tuner: Philips NTSC (even if your local system is PAL!) FI1236, FM1236 and compatibles.
Main chip: bt878
Cardnumber: 37
Tuner type: 2

Kernel module: bttv
Keywords: TV capture card www.prolink.com.tw
/sbin/lspci output: 00:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
00:09.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)
Chipset: bt878
Connection Type: PCI


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Old 09-13-2004, 12:47 PM   #1
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Registered: Sep 2003
Distribution: Debian
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 8

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.5-1-k7 #2 Fri Apr 30 20:46:35 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
Distribution: Debian unstable



Just to add that this card works well under Debian, also.

Kernel goes above. KDE 3.2.2.

Do:

modprobe tuner type=2 debug=1

modprobe bttv card=37 radio=1

without radio=1 you can't listen to radio, it defaults to radio=0

One detail: tvtime only runs ok as root. I didn't try to tweak it, as it requires root perms to access rtc for good video quality.

tvtime v 0.9.12
kradio v 0.3.0-snapshot-2004-02-28
 




  



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