Archived talk:Em2820

Does anyone have an idea getting the sound of pinnacle usb2 working? the image quality is surpringly brilliant, but... my system: suse 10.0, v4l-kernel from cvs (updatet some two days ago...). soundcard:82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller, driver: snd-intel8x0. Input:PAL I tryed all the things:

                        -activating everything in kmix (also for the pctv usb2-device)
                        -switched the kde sound-system to alsa
                        -using different players: kdetv, Xawtv, tvtime

1. v4lctl -c /dev/video0 list gives me: "Mute: on" - is that the problem? I could not change this typing v4lctl -c /dev/video0 mute=off. 2. do I have to run some special things in background? 3. I couldn't update dvb-kernel from cvs - is this perhaps causing problem?

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please read the Em2820 Wiki documentation, you have to use sox (or something similar) for piping the audio stream from the usb pctv device to your soundcard. -- MarkusRechberger

help on starting

Hi!

I have a Pinnacle PCTV USB2 and I'd like to try it out on Linux.

I read the wiki about this device been supported and I need some help on installing it.

Where can I download the package?

After download the package, do I need just to compile it or it is a patch to be applied on my kernel source or v4l source?

Thanks for the help,

Renato

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just get the v4l-kernel from cvs and compile it:

$ cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.linuxtv.org:/cvs/video4linux login
$ cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.linuxtv.org:/cvs/video4linux co -P v4l-kernel
$ cd v4l-kernel
$ cd v4l
$ make
...
...
$ make install
$ modprobe em28xx

you will also need the kernel headers for doing all that

MarkusRechberger