How To Install TV Tuner Card

[mudasir]

Hi.

I have bought PixelView TV Cinema A1100 TV Tuner Card.
Now i want to install it on my linux box please help me out.

the file /etc/hwconf shows

class: CAPTURE
bus: PCI
detached: 0
driver: cx88-alsa
desc: "Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder [Audio Port]"
vendorId: 14f1
deviceId: 8801
subVendorId: 1554
subDeviceId: 4914
pciType: 1
pcidom: 0
pcibus: 1
pcidev: 0
pcifn: 1
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class: CAPTURE
bus: PCI
detached: 0
driver: cx8800
desc: "Conexant CX23880/1/2/3 PCI Video and Audio Decoder"
vendorId: 14f1
deviceId: 8800
subVendorId: 1554
subDeviceId: 4914
pciType: 1
pcidom: 0
pcibus: 1
pcidev: 0
pcifn: 0

the dmesg command shows

cx2388x v4l2 driver version 0.0.5 loaded
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ
11
cx88[0]: Your board isn't known (yet) to the driver. You can
cx88[0]: try to pick one of the existing card configs via
cx88[0]: card=<n> insmod option. Updating to the latest
cx88[0]: version might help as well.
cx88[0]: Here is a list of valid choices for the card=<n> insmod option:
cx88[0]: card=0 -> UNKNOWN/GENERIC
cx88[0]: card=1 -> Hauppauge WinTV 34xxx models
cx88[0]: card=2 -> GDI Black Gold
cx88[0]: card=3 -> PixelView
cx88[0]: card=4 -> ATI TV Wonder Pro
cx88[0]: card=5 -> Leadtek Winfast 2000XP Expert
cx88[0]: card=6 -> AverTV Studio 303 (M126)
cx88[0]: card=7 -> MSI TV-@nywhere Master
cx88[0]: card=8 -> Leadtek Winfast DV2000
cx88[0]: card=9 -> Leadtek PVR 2000
cx88[0]: card=10 -> IODATA GV-VCP3/PCI
cx88[0]: card=11 -> Prolink PlayTV PVR
cx88[0]: card=12 -> ASUS PVR-416
cx88[0]: card=13 -> MSI TV-@nywhere
cx88[0]: card=14 -> KWorld/VStream XPert DVB-T
cx88[0]: card=15 -> DViCO FusionHDTV DVB-T1
cx88[0]: card=16 -> KWorld LTV883RF
cx88[0]: card=17 -> DViCO FusionHDTV 3 Gold-Q
cx88[0]: card=18 -> Hauppauge Nova-T DVB-T
cx88[0]: card=19 -> Conexant DVB-T reference design
cx88[0]: card=20 -> Provideo PV259
cx88[0]: card=21 -> DViCO FusionHDTV DVB-T Plus
cx88[0]: card=22 -> pcHDTV HD3000 HDTV
cx88[0]: card=23 -> digitalnow DNTV Live! DVB-T
cx88[0]: card=24 -> Hauppauge WinTV 28xxx (Roslyn) models
cx88[0]: card=25 -> Digital-Logic MICROSPACE Entertainment Center (MEC)
cx88[0]: card=26 -> IODATA GV/BCTV7E
cx88[0]: card=27 -> PixelView PlayTV Ultra Pro (Stereo)
cx88[0]: card=28 -> DViCO FusionHDTV 3 Gold-T
cx88[0]: card=29 -> ADS Tech Instant TV DVB-T PCI
cx88[0]: card=30 -> TerraTec Cinergy 1400 DVB-T
cx88[0]: card=31 -> DViCO FusionHDTV 5 Gold
cx88[0]: card=32 -> AverMedia UltraTV Media Center PCI 550
cx88[0]: card=33 -> Kworld V-Stream Xpert DVD
cx88[0]: card=34 -> ATI HDTV Wonder
cx88[0]: card=35 -> WinFast DTV1000-T
cx88[0]: card=36 -> AVerTV 303 (M126)
cx88[0]: card=37 -> Hauppauge Nova-S-Plus DVB-S
cx88[0]: card=38 -> Hauppauge Nova-SE2 DVB-S
cx88[0]: card=39 -> KWorld DVB-S 100
cx88[0]: card=40 -> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR1100 DVB-T/Hybrid
cx88[0]: card=41 -> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR1100 DVB-T/Hybrid (Low Profile)
cx88[0]: card=42 -> digitalnow DNTV Live! DVB-T Pro
cx88[0]: card=43 -> KWorld/VStream XPert DVB-T with cx22702
cx88[0]: card=44 -> DViCO FusionHDTV DVB-T Dual Digital
CORE cx88[0]: subsystem: 1554:4914, board: UNKNOWN/GENERIC [card=0,autodetected]
TV tuner -1 at 0x1fe, Radio tuner -1 at 0x1fe
cx88[0]/0: found at 0000:01:00.0, rev: 5, irq: 11, latency: 165, mmio: 0xe100000
0
tuner 1-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (cx88[0])
cx88[0]/0: registered device video0 [v4l2]
cx88[0]/0: registered device vbi0
tuner 1-0061: tuner type not set
set_control id=0x980900 reg=0x310110 val=0x00 (mask 0xff)
set_control id=0x980901 reg=0x310110 val=0x3f00 (mask 0xff00)
set_control id=0x980903 reg=0x310118 val=0x00 (mask 0xff)
set_control id=0x980902 reg=0x310114 val=0x5a7f (mask 0xffff)
set_control id=0x980909 reg=0x320594 val=0x40 (mask 0x40) [shadowed]
set_control id=0x980905 reg=0x320594 val=0x20 (mask 0x3f) [shadowed]
set_control id=0x980906 reg=0x320598 val=0x40 (mask 0x7f) [shadowed]

Please help me in installing it correctly.
When i open TVtime to view TV, blue screen appears stating

No Capturing Device Found /dev/video0

and please tell me an application that will help me in broadcasting multiple channel at the same time on my network.

[LinuxFreaK]

Dear mudasir,
Salam,

FYI, http://www.burghardt.pl/wiki/articles/p ... -bt878p_9x and http://www.pcquest.com/content/linux/ha ... 091501.asp

Best Regards.

[mudasir]

Salam Farrukh Bhai,

Thanks for the reply. Farrukh bhai i did searched alot but almost every where i found ways to install BTTV chipset TV Tuner Cards, i coud not found any way to install cx8800 chipset TV Tuner Card. Because my /etc/hwconf file says that it is a cx8800 chipset Device as mentioned in my first post.

Please help me out in this. I have also installed the same TV Tuner in my windows box it shows Prolink 23880 Video Capture Device.

Please Help me out in this one.

I also need a software to broadcast multiple channels please.

[LinuxFreaK]

Dear mudasir,
Salam,

FYI, http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8116 , http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... p?t=449575 and http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... p?t=252217

Best Regards.

[CyberFreak]

if bttv driver is installed you need to edit your modprob.conf file and add
your tv card mine is
options bttv card=72