FXTV and no Audio (again)

George Leo Rachor Jr. george at rachors.com
Thu Jul 15 17:39:39 PDT 2004


I'm mainly a lurker here but have you tried:

My Hauppage setup reqires that a jumper the audio-out connection on the
tvcard to line-in on the sound card.


A long time ago fxtv worked for me but that jumper was required.  That
short jumper cable came with my tv card....

Best Regards,

George Rachor
Not a Freebsd expert!


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George L. Rachor Jr.		george at rachors.com
Hillsboro, Oregon               http://rachors.com
United States of America        Amateur Radio : KD7DCX

On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, gabriel dandrades wrote:

> I know this has been discussed widely on this list and many others
> around the globe but well, I got a TV capture card a couple of days
> ago, compiled the kernel and configured according to the FreeBSD
> handbook TV capture card section. Upon boot up the card and drivers
> all seem to  work in harmony and all so I went ahead and installed
> FXTV since it was the simplest application I found to test it out, I
> really don't need great GUI so FXTV works fine, anyway I have great
> video but absolutely NO AUDIO, here's what I've tried:
> 
> * Tried plugging in headphones into the audio out jack in the TV card - no go
> * Tried plugging in headphones into the audio out jack in the sound card - no go
> * Tried setting the volumes on the "mixer" to 100:100 and also the
> rest (i.e. line, line1 etc..) - no go
> * Tried using fxtv with the different mixer channels and no go either
> * Also tried using a diff sound device and well, that didn't work
> 
> So you see guys, I've tried quite a bit, I've googled the world and
> over and still nothing, has any one got a good solution for this
> issue? ** ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING WILL BE APPRECIATED **
> 
> Here is my dmesg output regarding the TV card:
> <snip>
> bktr0: <BrookTree 848A> mem 0xf6000000-0xf6000fff irq 10 at device 8.0 on pci2
> iicbb0: <I2C bit-banging driver> on bti2c0
> iicbus0: <Philips I2C bus> on iicbb0 master-only
> iicbus1: <Philips I2C bus> on iicbb0 master-only
> smbus0: <System Management Bus> on bti2c0
> bktr0: IMS TV Turbo, Philips FR1236 NTSC FM tuner
> </snip>
> 
> Here's the fxtv --debug startup output:
> <snip>
> 
> Fxtv v1.03
> 
> DETECTED CAPTURE CARD(S) [DRIVER PROBES]:
>     bktr0: <BrookTree 848A> mem 0xf6000000-0xf6000fff irq 10 at device
> 8.0 on pci2
>     iicbb0: <I2C bit-banging driver> on bti2c0
>     bktr0: IMS TV Turbo, Philips FR1236 NTSC FM tuner.
>     xl0: <3Com 3c905C-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0xec80-0xecff mem
> 0xfbfffc00-0xfbfffc7f irq 5 at device 12.0 on pci2
> 
> SYSCTL MIB VALUES:
>     kern.version: FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE #3: Wed Jul 14 18:40:17 PDT 2004
>         root at strange.normal1.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/STRANGE
> 
>     hw.bt848.card: -1
>     hw.bt848.tuner: -1
>     hw.bt848.reverse_mute: -1
>     hw.bt848.format: -1
>     hw.bt848.slow_msp_audio: -1
> 
> TUNER SIGNATURE (0x01 - 0xff):
>     00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00
> 
> TUNER I2C DEVICES FOUND AT:
>     0xc2
> 
> CAPTURE CARD EEPROM CONTENTS:
>    Read 0 EEPROM byte
> SUPPORTED FREQUENCY SETS:
>      1 nabcst
>      2 cableirc
>      3 cablehrc
>      4 weurope
>      5 jpnbcst
>      6 jpncable
>      7 xussr
>      8 australia
>      9 france
> 
> Supported RGB Capture Pixel Formats:
>    bpp  Bpp  RGB Masks                     Swap
>    ---  ---  ----------------------------  ----
>     15   2   00007c00, 000003e0, 0000001f  NB
>     16   2   0000f800, 000007e0, 0000001f  NB
>     24   3   00ff0000, 0000ff00, 000000ff   B
>     24   4   00ff0000, 0000ff00, 000000ff  NBWb
> 
> Supported YUV Capture Pixel Formats:
>    YUVSize  HSamp  VSamp  Pack    CompOrder  T->B  L->R  YTrans
>    -------  -----  -----  ------  ---------  ----  ----  ------
>     8,8,8   1,2,2  1,1,1  PLANAR  YUV         Y     Y      N
>     8,8,8   1,2,2  1,1,1  PACKED  YUYV        Y     Y      N
>     8,8,8   1,2,2  1,2,2  PLANAR  YUV         Y     Y      N
> XSERVER: 'The XFree86 Project, Inc' v40300000,  Protocol Verson 11.0
>          Screen Res = 1024x768, DefDepth = 24; NumScreens = 1
>          Bitmap Unit/BitOrder/Pad = 32/LSBFirst/32, Image ByteOrder = LSBFirst
> 
> XF86DGAQueryVersion() succeeded - vers = 2.00
>    BaseAddr = 0xf4000000, Pitch = 1024, BankSize/RamSize = 16777216/16777216
> 
> Rating Available Visuals:
>    Rating  Class        bpp  Bpp  R,G,B Masks                   Swap  DirectVid
>    ------  -----------  ---  ---  ----------------------------  ----  ---------
>      7     TrueColor     24  4,4  00ff0000, 0000ff00, 000000ff   --      Yes
>      4     TrueColor     24  4,4  00ff0000, 0000ff00, 000000ff   --      No
>      4     TrueColor     24  4,4  00ff0000, 0000ff00, 000000ff   --      No
>      4     TrueColor     24  4,4  00ff0000, 0000ff00, 000000ff   --      No
>      0     DirectColor   24  4,4  00ff0000, 0000ff00, 000000ff   --      No
>      0     DirectColor   24  4,4  00ff0000, 0000ff00, 000000ff   --      No
>      0     DirectColor   24  4,4  00ff0000, 0000ff00, 000000ff   --      No
>      0     DirectColor   24  4,4  00ff0000, 0000ff00, 000000ff   --      No
> Chosen Visual is 24-bpp TrueColor
> 
> XF86VidModeQueryVersion() succeeded - version = 2.02
> 
> </snip>
> 
> 
> Cheers!!
> 
> -gabriel
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