On 5/5/05, kwhiskers <kwhiskers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.
I have done more experimentation and have some curious results:
I installed Zapping from freshrpms. Sudenly my TV card works fine. I can change channels and I can view the feed from the video machine's output. Only problem is, whenever I click on 'preferences', the program crashes. I restart and everything runs fine again. Just can't change any preferences in the gui window. Would have to edit the config file by hand.
However, tvtime still displays absolutely nothing. I have checked that all my settings are ok (broadcast tv). Just nothing. No sound, no video. And nothing when I play the video machine.
Kmplayer and kplayer still don't display anything at all. Kmplayer tells me that there is no device.
Any ideas?
