ATI/AMD TV Wonder HD 600 USB
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A hybrid ATSC USB 2.0 device by ATI/AMD.
The device identifies itself as a "Advanced Micro Devices, Inc" and the subsystem information provided by lsusb -v is 0438:b002.
Support for the digital functionality of this device has been submitted for inclusion in the V4L codebase (targeted for inclusion in the 2.6.27 kernel). There is also a third party driver available (see the Drivers section below for details).
Overview/Features
This device supports ATSC (i.e. OTA Digital TV) and analog NTSC. It also has a connector on the side for an A/V cable dongle. The package includes a small dipole antenna and a short USB extension cable.
Components used:
- Xceive xc3028ACQ (tuner & analog demodulator)
- LG DT3303 (digital demodulator)
- Texas Instruments tvp5150 (video decoder)
- Empiatech em2883 (USB bridge and analog audio)
Identification
Making it Work
Firmware
In order to use the LinuxTV driver, you need to download and install the firmware. Here is the procedure to follow (taken from the help found in extract_xc3028.pl):
Download the windows driver with something like:
wget http://www.steventoth.net/linux/xc5000/HVR-12x0-14x0-17x0_1_25_25271_WHQL.zip
Extract the file hcw85bda.sys from the zip into the current dir:
unzip -j HVR-12x0-14x0-17x0_1_25_25271_WHQL.zip Driver85/hcw85bda.sys
run the extract_xc3028.pl script found in linux/Documentation/video4linux:
./extract_xc3028.pl
copy the generated file so it can be picked up by the Linux kernel:
cp xc3028-v27.fw /lib/firmware
Drivers
There are two potential sources of drivers for this device:
- Use a recent snapshot of LinuxTV's v4l-dvb drivers
- Both analog and ATSC digital reception are supported
- Read the above mentioned Firmware section for details on installing the proper firmware.
- Seek out support provided by Mrec's drivers: see: mcentral
Analog Audio Issue
Analog audio appears to be problematic so you will likely need to employ SOX as a helper application, prior to starting the viewing app, in order to get any sound in popular apps like tvtime etc.
sox -r 48000 -w -c 2 -t ossdsp /dev/dsp1 -t ossdsp /dev/dsp
Note that there may be an associated delay (i.e. not in sync).
The root of the problem is that the em28xx presents itself as a USB audio device, and applications such as tvtime do not know to associate the video stream with the audio stream.
Note that Markus Rechberger maintains a version of tvtime that is patched to work around this limitation: Mcentral.de tvtime
Sample kernel output
provide the relevant portion of dmesg here
Remote Control Support
The remote control is known to not be supported in the V4L driver. It is unknown whether it is supported in the mrec driver.