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Forcing BT878 based TV-card to use composite input
Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 6:05 am
by ekiboy69
Hi,
Is there a way to tell a Hauppauge WinTV card to use the composite input as default instead of TV tuner? I have to change this setting manually each time I boot the box.
Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 8:54 am
by cordel
I think the default composit input is on channel 2 (The cannel selection in ZM should be called an input as it don't relate to the tuner channels). I know that it is on my Hauppauge PVR-150 with channel 0 being the tuner.
Found the solution
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 7:05 am
by ekiboy69
Cordel,
Thanks for your help!
In this case the right combination was
Device path /dev/video0
Device Channel 1
lspci says nothing but the following about the card: 04:04.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 7:48 am
by robi
Does that mean that a regular TV-tuner card, that has 1 tuner input, 1 composite, 1 s-video input could be used like a dvr-card with 2 cameras (composite + s-video) by selecting channels, at half-fps?
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 8:51 am
by cordel
With my one card, yes it seems to work fine that way.
Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 3:32 pm
by robi
It should post that info in the WiKi, as for 2 cameras a separate TV tuner card is NOT needed
