Philips SAA7130

Danny Pansters danny at ricin.com
Sun Jan 20 17:53:46 PST 2008


Some existing SAA docs/datasheets:

saa a/v: http://www.ortodoxism.ro/datasheets/philips/SAA7130HL.pdf
saa a/v: http://www.ortodoxism.ro/datasheets/philips/SAA7133HL_1.pdf
iic general: http://www.mcc-us.com/i2cHowToUseIt1995.pdf
iic tuning: http://dl.ivtvdriver.org/datasheets/tuners/FM1216ME_MK3.pdf

Dan

On Monday 21 January 2008 02:28:41 Danny Pansters wrote:
> On Monday 21 January 2008 02:09:14 Da Rock wrote:
> > Yes, been there, tried that....
> >
> > The driver works but getting kbtv to use it was a flop for me- I don't
> > know about others. And the driver download from purpe I found was not
> > always there or or access was not allowed. Plus thats only analogue- I
> > have a hybrid card here so that means DVB doesn't work.
>
> It's a driver for analog TV, not DVB. DVB could be bolted upon it though.
> It's tuning is different ("subchannels") and you'd need a mpeg backend and
> (optionally or if no a/v decoding driver mandatory) a hardware encoder
> driver. But this is not what the saa driver does as-is, as you have found
> out.
>
> You probably only got a/v decoder support so far. But to think you're
> better off not even looking at a driver that at least works and makes a
> starting point, that just tells me enough.
>
> BTW, I don't recall getting any bug reports or patches from you.
>
> > > From: danny at ricin.com> To: freebsd-multimedia at freebsd.org> Date: Mon,
> > > 21 Jan 2008 01:56:01 +0100> Subject: Re: Philips SAA7130> > You guys
> > > should learn to google.> > The saa driver from purpe.com (google)
> > > supports the saa713x a/V capture (it's > example tuning support is
> > > somewhat lacking, see for example the philips > datasheets (again,
> > > google) to make it work better.> > Saa is supported (and driver
> > > included) in multimedia/kbtv and will also be > supported in kbtv2
> > > which will be released for testing soon.> > Dan> > On Sunday 20 January
> > > 2008 06:51:51 Da Rock wrote:> > I've been still trying to get my
> > > AverMedia Hybrid PCMCIA card to work, but> > I don't think its coming
> > > anytime soon. Trouble is I've been trying to use> > the linux compat
> > > but I haven't got any answer on how, I've asked about how> > to build a
> > > driver (so I might be able to use linux compat and use the> > drivers
> > > from there) but got no answer- I reckon for the new tv cards you> >
> > > might need to go to linux. There are current linux drivers available
> > > for> > Avermedia at linuxtv.org but I can't get them to work on bsd
> > > unfortunately.> > I'd like to get it to work on bsd, but I keep coming
> > > up blanks and it seems> > beyond my skills to build a driver for it.
> > > Currently I'm using fc8 to run> > my multimedia, and I'll use bsd on my
> > > servers. Seems to be the only way> > atm, but I will be
> > > watching...> >> > > Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:39:30 +0100> From:
> > > Ladislav.Ardo at aoes.com> To:> > > freebsd at sopwith.solgatos.com> CC:
> > > freebsd-multimedia at freebsd.org>> > > Subject: Re: Philips SAA7130> >
> > > Dieter wrote:> >>> please, supports> > > FreeBSD chipset Philips
> > > SAA7130 (in TV tuners) ???> >>> exactly a TV card> > > AverMedia AverTV
> > > GO 007 ?>
> > >
> > > >>>> >>> thank you :-)> >>>> >> I have Philips> > > SAA7135hl ENLTV
> > >
> > > TV/Radio Tuner and I've been waiting for > >> its support> > > for 3
> > > years. I recollect that someone have promised to work > >> on it> > >
> > > one day but I haven't heard about any progress since. :(> >> > Have
> > > you> > > found datasheets for the chips?> I don't mean to come over as
> > > a strange>
> > >
> > > > > person by saying this (a bad > habit) - but - typing "Philips
> > >
> > > SAA7130> > > datasheet" into google returns > data sheet in pds format
> > > for SAA7130 in> > > first, second and following hits.> > peace,>
> > > -laco.>>
> > >
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