Comments on: Linux Configure Pinnacle PCTV Card to Watch Television with saa7134 / saa7134-alas Driver

By: Bak

Bak — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 17:50:04 +0000

Thanks, but it did not help …
problem not changed …:

xvoutput: No XVIDEO port found which supports YUY2 images.

By: shanks

shanks — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:18:24 +0000

Also dmesg | grep saa713 throws the following

[ 10.672286] saa7130[0]: subsystem: 1131:0000, board: UNKNOWN/GENERIC [card=0,autodetected]
[ 10.672331] saa7130[0]: board init: gpio is 3e500
[ 10.780218] saa7130[0]: Huh, no eeprom present (err=-5)?
[ 10.780328] saa7130[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2]
[ 10.780412] saa7130[0]: registered device vbi0
[ 10.788025] saa7134 ALSA driver for DMA sound loaded
[ 10.788032] saa7130[0]/alsa: UNKNOWN/GENERIC doesn’t support digital audio

By: shanks

shanks — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:15:15 +0000

BTW I am using Ubuntu latest version 10.10

Thanks for the help

shanks
Mysore India

By: shanks

shanks — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:13:43 +0000

I have a SAA7130 and the drivers seems to have been installed ok. But on launch of TVTime or any other TV viewing software, it says ‘Video Source’ – Default. I a at a loss to install this card. Any idea what I should do?

By: german elesdi

german elesdi — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 21:19:52 +0000

hi bak, i am a proud Debian Squeeze user and i solved the problem installing non free drivers.
First,
apt-cache search dvb
…
firmware-linux-nonfree – Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kernel
Then,
sudo apt-get install firmware-linux-nonfree
Finally,
sudo reboot
and that’s how it got solved in Debian, i hope you find it useful.

By: bak

bak — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 11:26:40 +0000

Hello,

On xubuntu 10.06 amd64 I installed a: Conceptronic CTVFMi2 tv-radio card.
Created: etc/modprobe.d/options.conf: options saa7134 card=78 tuner=61
and it seems both card and tuner are recognised: tvtime-scanner scans.
Tvtime makes a short flash when started. Tvtime show-stats gives an error: xvoutput: No XVIDEO port found which supports YUY2 images.
xvinfo outputs: … no adaptors present
dmesg looks good, except:
IRQ 20/saa7133[0]: IRQF_DISABLED is not guaranteed on shared IRQs
tda10046: chip is not answering. Giving up.
I know I need tv out. But where do I start solving this?

By: shirish

shirish — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 07:21:55 +0000

wish I had known about pciids when I had bought a TV Tuner card couple of years back. Didn’t know the back and hence gave it to an uncle. Will try again, thank you for the efforts.

By: tvtime &

tvtime & — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 23:29:42 +0000

Thanks a Lot ;) !!!!!!:::….:::::!!!!////::::..::!::…:!:..:

By: rob munro

rob munro — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:09:08 +0000

This is a bit unrelated to your post but wondering if you might know.

I am trying to use mencoder to capture the output stream the video is fine but the audio is going wonky.

looks like the sampleing rate from the sound device /dev/dsp1 is 32000. if i use 32000 to capture audio then the audio is in sync but the pitch is low. if i use 44100 the pitch is correct but the audio is out of sync.

the command i have so far is:
mencoder tv:// -tv channel=0:driver=v4l2:device=/dev/video0:normid=5:input=1:chanlist=us-cable:brightness=0:contrast=0:hue=0:saturation=0:adevice=/dev/dsp1:audiorate=32000 -oac pcm -ovc lavc -quiet -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=3000 -lameopts cbr:br=128 -af resample=44100 -srate 44100 -o ./capture.avi

i am capturing from the composite input.

By: marc

marc — Mon, 10 May 2010 21:25:13 +0000

I have the same problem as the two posters above. when I input dmesg | grep saa7133
I get no output

I also tried inputting dmesg | grep saa713 but this made no difference, nothing happens.

I have a Pinnacle 7010x dual tuner card and I’m trying to get it working on ubuntu9.1. t does seem to be picking it up however as I got the following entry

02:00.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7162 (rev 01)

any suggestions are appreciated.

thanks from ireland

By: hckr.gdby

hckr.gdby — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:18:40 +0000

hey…

its working… thanks for this wonderful & detailed tutorial…..

Thank you very much

By: hckr.gdby

hckr.gdby — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:57:30 +0000

Hi,

I am using Pinnacle PCTV 50i and Ubuntu 8.04. When i start TVTime, it show no signal…all I get is the same old blue screen…. i even ran tvtime-scanner, also resulted “No Signal”

Please help me….

Thanks in advance….

By: Pedro

Pedro — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:54:41 +0000

Hello,
I think that i have a better solution for the sound of pinnacle pctv 110i. Instead of sox processing i used a sound cable (cd sound cable) from the card (audio out) to the ‘cd in’ or ‘aux in’ of my sound card or board sound card. Then install a control volume program like aumix to control cd/aux volume. Bye!

‘amd phenom x4 64bits, 4gb ddr3, ati radeon hd4870, ubuntu 9.10′

By: Hugo

Hugo — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:35:38 +0000

For setting up remote control you can use lirc. Click here for an example for setting up PCTV Pro remote in Ubuntu

By: Marlon Régis Schmitz

Marlon Régis Schmitz — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:28:28 +0000

Hi,

How about bundled IR remote control?

Thank you very much!

By: SLR

SLR — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 16:25:39 +0000

i hav installed tvtime but still no siginal is on the screen

By: paulo

paulo — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:12:45 +0000

plz any1 knows y i cant do this?
Visit Input Configuration > Change Video Source > Setup source as per your setup.

By: K

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:01:57 +0000

I have a problem setting up tvtime.

1) lspci output: 09:06.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7131/SAA7133/SAA7135 Video Broadcast Decoder (rev d0)

2) dmesg | grep saa7133 PARTIAL output:
[ 10.538210] saa7133[0]: subsystem: 11bd:002e, board: Pinnacle PCTV 40i/50i/110i (saa7133) [card=77,autodetected]
……….
[ 10.768108] tuner’ 2-004b: chip found @ 0×96 (saa7133[0])
[ 14.804077] ir-kbd-i2c: Pinnacle PCTV detected at i2c-2/2-0047/ir0 [saa7133[0]]
[ 14.804253] saa7133[0]: registered device video1 [v4l2]
[ 14.804282] saa7133[0]: registered device vbi0
[ 14.804312] saa7133[0]: registered device radio0
[ 14.872258] saa7133[0]/alsa: saa7133[0] at 0xfddff000 irq 16 registered as card -2

and yet when I start tvtime, it always shows “NO SIGNAL” I have tried changing video source and frequency tables to all possible combinations and yet nothing seems to be working. All I get is a blue screen.
I am using Pinnacle PCTV 50i and Ubuntu 9.04.

By: folkspirit

folkspirit — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:50:42 +0000

“jay” and “asl4u”, try this:

dmesg | grep saa713

tricky ;)

By: gsk

gsk — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 02:10:42 +0000

I tried up to step 5 and got struck , there I am notable to get the screen displayed. The screen just flashes and goes off. Igot the following screen with a flash (only once) screen:
gsk@gsk-desktop:~$ tvtime &
Running tvtime 1.0.2.
Reading configuration from /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml
Reading configuration from /home/gsk/.tvtime/tvtime.xml
[1] 4221
gsk@gsk-desktop:~$ xvoutput: No XVIDEO port found which supports YUY2 images.

*** tvtime requires hardware YUY2 overlay support from your video card
*** driver. If you are using an older NVIDIA card (TNT2), then
*** this capability is only available with their binary drivers.
*** For some ATI cards, this feature may be found in the experimental
*** GATOS drivers: http://gatos.souceforge.net/
*** If unsure, please check with your distribution to see if your
*** X driver supports hardware overlay surfaces.
Pl.help me install tvtime. I am a begginner.