Satish Alwani assid@assid.com said:

Has anyone here ried using xawtv on a bt878/848 chipset. (Im not too sue which one it is coz everytime i go hunting to get it working ... Theres always something else pushing me back to win).

I have one of those , a hauppage one. There are a lot of things to do before they start working. For starters, you need the bttv driver. the v4l is already in the kernel, but v4l2 have to be downloaded separately. I have found l2 to be superior quality wise, but it is pretty buggy.

Then you will need tvaudio, tvmixer and tuner. xawtv works great for me, though you could also use mplayer, mencoder etc for different stuff.

You can get bttv docs in the kerneldocs. v4l2 docs and more bttv info at bttvs' bytesex site.

Basically, if i boot to win, start pixelview, and then reboot (WITHOUT SHUTTING DOWN) back into linux, i can get some kinda reception. Until

then I

just cant get ANYTHING!

Also, somehow I find the audio lower on linux as compared to xp. But then

i

find it equal to that of 98. Is there any known plugin that can be

utilised

to gain audio ?

Hmm, audio problems are always there. i guess there is no way other than telling the driver which tuner type your card is, or buying a card where the tuner type is stored in the rom. there was a posting on some newsgroup about probing the card for tuner info. search google groups and once you know the tuner type, you can tell your driver what to do.