Re: [Hampshire] TV Tuner

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Author: Hugo Mills
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On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 08:28:51PM +0000, Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote:
> From time to time, I try to enliven a dull evening by making yet another
> attempt to get my Twinhan Alpha 7045A USB TV tuner to work on one of my
> Debian ThinkPads. To the best of my ability, I've followed every piece of
> advice and guidance I can find, but with the results below:


> T42:/home/chris# xawtv -hwscan
>
> This is xawtv-3.95.dfsg.1, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.18-6-686)
>
> looking for available devices
>
> port 73-73
>
> type : Xvideo, image scaler
>
> name : ATI Radeon Video Overlay [Intel (R) Video Overlay on my X30]
>
> T42:/home/chris# xawtv -tvscan
>
> This is xawtv-3.95.dfsg.1, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.18-6-686)
>
> can't open /dev/video0: No such file or directory
>
> v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway

[snip]
> no video grabber device available


You're using the wrong tools. The TwinHan DTV Alpha devices are
*digital* TV devices, but V4L (aka video4linux) is for *analogue*
devices.

You need at minimum the dvb-utils and dvbstream packages. dvbtune
is probably helpful, too. The first half of the article at [1] should
explain a bit of how to use them.

Hugo.

[1] http://carfax.org.uk/docs/DVB

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