Anyone have any ideas?
I was using my ATI Wonder frame grabber (TV card) right up until August
2004, under Fedora 2, without any problem. Then I moved and didn't get
cable, upgraded to Fedora 3, and never had need of it since. Then, 2
nights ago, I wanted to make a copy of a videocassette and was not able
to. After many hours of fiddling and frustration, I made the copy in
Windows, by issuing a single one-touch recording click, to record the
output of channel 3. Nevertheless, this is something I want to solve,
so as not to have to 'resort' to measures in the future.
I believe my ATI Wonder is properly configured. I have the same
modprobe settings as I had under FC2 and the same as listed in the
kernel documentation. dmesg shows that the bttv is loaded as
/dev/video0 and I have a tuner=2, also properly recognized.
Nevertheless, tvtime fails to show any display at all. In kmplayer,
when I try to detect the device, it says no devices found. No
difference if I manually set it to /dev/video0. I have tried to
directly access channel 3, the one the video machine sends on, by
issuing tv://3 in kplayer, mplayer, kmplayer, videolan to no avail. I
have tried to see whether the video machine's channel 3 output appears
on channel 3 in the television setting, the composite, or the other one
(is it svideo, or something). None work. Just a blank screen.
Yet, when I use gnomemeeting or camE, I can get 'snow', like having a
wrong channel tuned. These programs do not have tuner capabilities, so
I suspect they might be reading what is coming off channel 1, although
I could be wrong.
I have scoured the documentation, suspecting that something might have
changed from FC2 => FC3, but I have everything set as in the
documentation, as far as I can tell. I have the programs using v4l and
xv, which I believe is the preferred way. Are there other ways? But
this always worked before.
