Re: Pinnacle PCTV Stereo and PAL-N issues

[Alfredo Jesús Delaiti Iannelli <alfredodelaiti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

Probe this:

xawtv -noxv

Alfredo

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Hi y'all:
I have a Pinnacle PCTV Stereo card with a Philips SAA7133 chip and
a Microtune MT2050. It also seems to have a TDA9887 chip.
This card works [cough, cough] with PAL-N and PAL-Nc under MS [cough] 
WindowsXP [cough] SP2 [choke] and  the original Pinnacle drivers  :-P  [clears 
throat]
I purchased this card because the information I had, said that it
comes with a Brooktree chip. But, alas, Pinnacle changed the design.
(Need to add: I am located in Paraguay - not always on the edge of
technology.)

On Debian Sid with kernel 2.6.9 and KDE 3.3.1 here is a different story 
however:

I can record videos allright from my VCR, which outputs a PAL-Nc
signal. But "scantv -a" does only find spurious signals. It does not
seem to recognize PAL-N signals.
xawtv and tvtime play the sound of our local TV stations allright
and also the sound of what I receive via "cable" (this is actually
via microwave and decoded with a decoder under the roof).
But the picture is black&white and with a sync-bar in the upper
third. It looks  exactly as if I tried to watch a PAL-N signal 
with a PAL(Europe)-TVset.
The drivers for SAA7134 support PAL-Nc OK but do not seem to support
PAL-N in any way.
PAL-N is the norm with 4.5MHz sound carrier used in Argentina, 
Uruguay and Paraguay for terrestrial Broadcast. PAL-Nc has 5.5MHz
sound carrier and is used in Argentina for cable-TV.

What I like to know is how I can switch or patch the driver(s) for
PAL-N. Which files do I have to look at?
saa7134.c, tda9887.c, tuner.c or anything else or less?

Please be so kind as to give me a hint as where to start. 

Below follows some debug info which I gathered from lspci and kern.log
If wanted I can send a scan of the card.

Kind regards, Eike Lantzsch




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