Digital TV tuner drivers for Puppy 2.12 up

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tempestuous
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#21 Post by tempestuous »

I provided the "standard" firmware recommended by the IVTV project. It's in /lib/firmware.
You could try replacing this with the firmware from your Windows driver.

modesto
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#22 Post by modesto »

Shenen,

Is the file size per unit of time the same for Linux and windows? If it was not the same it would suggest different levels of compression, IE different Bitrates. In linux I think the only bitrate is 6000K/s. I get about 2.6GByte/hr in Linux. If I want to get a lower bitrate I use ffmeg to process the saved file, which takes a long time, but it works, and it can be done via a script overnight

Different Bitrates could explain what you see. I think in Windows it can be changed.

Phil

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#23 Post by tempestuous »

October 6 2007
IVTV module package for Puppy 3.00 attached to 3rd post.

modesto
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#24 Post by modesto »

I installed Puppy 2.17 and the enhanced drivers, but still no sound.

I used cardtype 21 which seems to be the right card except it has no tuner support, but cardtype 16 does work with its tuner. Anyhow the goal is sound via the RCA sockets and the enhanced drivers seem to the right direction. So I do appreciate all the help, I am getting somewhere.

I think the problem this time may be that looking in the card initialization using dmesg, it has a line

IVTV: Failed to load module wm8739

When I try modprobe wm8739 I get Fatal wm8739 not found and indeed there is no wm8739.ko file in the applicable folder.

the odd thing is that I did have wm8739.ko in my Puppy 2.14. I am not not sure which package installed it.

From where could I get a wm8739 module for puppy 2.17?

Is it worth trying installing 3.0 and see what I get?

Thanks very much.

Phil
PS the wm8739 is the audio mixer, so I am not shooting in the dark, it makes some sense to need it

tempestuous
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#25 Post by tempestuous »

OK, I just added the wm8739 module to both the Puppy 2.17 and 3.00 ivtv packages. Both packages are now called "patched".
As well as the wm8739 module, I also discovered that the revised source provides several other new modules, so I added these as well;

cs53132a
saa7127
saa7191
tlv320aic23b
upd64031a
upd64083
v4l-int-device
vivi
vp27smpx
zr364xx

modesto
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#26 Post by modesto »

It works!!!

Thank you very much indeed.

Puppy makes a very good Home Theatre PC. The Nvidia drivers (6600 cards and up) are very good picture quality for DVDs etc and have good de-interlacing etc. Add a cheap video capture card and you are set to watch TV, convert tapes to DVD, Record and Burn DVDs of TV programs, watch TV semi-live tiVo style with replay and fast forward. Add a DVB-S card and get interesting satellite channels. This is on a PIII last generation computer. All thanks to people like you who help us with the details.

Phil

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