Re: French Television using bktr(4)?

[Jacob Meuser <jakemsr_(_at_)_jakemsr_(_dot_)_com>]

On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 09:24:23PM +0000, Benny Siegert wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am using a Pinnacle PCTV Rave PCI television card with a bt848 chip. It 
> works fine together with xawtv---at least for PAL channels.
> 
> You see, I am living in France, where most TV channels are encoded in 
> SECAM. But even when I set the TV norm to SECAM and use the right channel, 
> I get a very bad and distorted picture, where you basically see nothing.

xawtv does not tune channels properly.  with GENERIC kernel, it just
happens to work for PAL, but you can probably use it's fine tuning to
get a picture anywhere.

> After some googling, I came up with a possible explanation: In France, 
> SECAM-L is used, but the SECAM norm in bktr(4) means SECAM-B/G. And 
> indeed, the Windows software of a different card (a WinTV Express) allows 
> me to select SECAM L, and I get a picture. Video4Linux obviously allows 
> this too, from what I have seen (I haven't tried it though).
> 
> My question is: Would it be possible to add this norm to the bktr driver? 
> Or does TV reception work for anyone in France with the current one?

first see if fxtv works correctly.  it uses the proper combinations of
ioctls for tuning.

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