Do any of you have an nvidia video card and are using a video capture card and have gotten xawtv (or motv) to work properly? I am beginning to think this is impossible. Thanks.

here's how I did it for my Pixelview PlayTv Pro:

edit /etc/modules.conf then add these at the bottom:
#i2c
alias char-major-89 i2c-dev
options i2c-core i2c_debug=1
options i2c-algo-bit bit_test=1

#bttv
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 bttv
options bttv card=37 pll=1 radio=1
options tuner type=17 debug=1

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run 'depmod -a'
now do 'modprobe bttv' if you hear a brief static, you got it working.

run xawtv or scantv



note: keep in mind that this is the config for my card, in the bttv you'll see "card=37" <--- this is the pixelview card. What's yours?

I didn't even put that line in there. I have the Hauppage card. I got everything loaded properly, but I keep getting a seg fault from (xaw|mo)tv. I was thinking it was a problem with the nvidia drivers. Do you also have the nvidia drivers loaded?

That's right I dunno about the errors, try posting it maybe someone might know who also have a hauppage card.

I kindof already had a thread about it <http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=50534>, but the problem is basically:

lackluster@lackluster:~/flicks$ xawtv
This is xawtv-3.86, running on Linux/i686 (2.4.20)
Segmentation fault

I get a black window for about 1/2 a second before it crashes. Don't know what the problem could be ....

I guess you could try acid_kewpie's suggestion there, upgrade. Sorry I have no idea how to fix that nvidia prob you have there except for upgrading/downgrading.

yeah, I've upgraded/downgraded already ... thanks anyways

The NVidia drivers break XawTV point black. Since I needed the improved nvidia driver to use Celestia, I just gave up on XawTV. It's not supported that much anymroe, and there are no improvements being made to it. Instead, I found TV Time http://tvtime.sourceforge.net/ and fell in love. It doesn't have any GUI interfaces, but it has a beautiful OSD, full screen support, and the picture quality is much better than xaw. Best of all, it compiled and ran with no BS - what I alwasy love in a src distro.

I have a Haupage card, nvidia tnt2 and nvidia drivers.

I got xawtv to work with no sound by using the -noxv-video option to turn off the default use of the XVideo extension. My RH9 2.4.20-20.9 show2s that the XVideo extension is available. So I do not know why xawtv is having a fit. My mplayer works great too with sound.

Anyone know why the sound may not work?

See my post here...

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=77751&highlight=.xawtv

Oh and BTW I have the sound working now. It was pointed out it needed a patch cable from the tv card into the line-in of the sound card.

Duh