TV Capture Card

[Crow]

I received as a gift a TV capture card, put it in a PCI slot and connected the cable TV but I never had one so I don't know how to make it work 

PCC says:

Identificación
Fabricante: ‎Philips Semiconductors
Descripción: ‎SAA7130 Video Broadcast Decoder
Clase de soporte: ‎Multimedia controller
Conexión
Bus: ‎PCI
Dominio PCI: ‎0
Bus PCI nº: ‎2
Dispositivo PCI nº: ‎4
Función PCI nº: ‎0
ID del fabricante: ‎0x1131
ID del dispositivo: ‎0x7130
Sub-ID del fabricante: ‎0x1131
Sub-ID del dispositivo: ‎0x0000
Varios
Módulo: ‎saa7134

uname -a says that I have kernel 2.6.26.8.tex3 running in a  i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz

In this machine I'm still using KDE 3.x,  tried TV Time but only flashes in the screen and thatś all, KdeTV asks me a bunch of questions that I don't know and the defaults return nothing. Since PCC seems to identify correctly the hardware I think that it is a good chance to make it work.

Any help will be appreciated

[Tomtompiper]

First you will need dvb-apps installed.
open a terminal..

scan /usr/share/doc/dvb-utils//examples/scan/dvb-t/au-sydney_north_shore -o zap | tee ~/.mplayer/channels.conf

changing the highlighted text for your local transmitter. then run

mplayer dvb://

use h and k to change channel. If this works you can install MythTV and use the channels.conf file to set it up.

[Crow]

Thanks Tomtompiper I have copied your post and will try it later; the Card finally showed an incompatibility with my Radeon 9550 and I ended without video, I'm in the process now of changing it.

[Scotsman828]

Your card sounds like it may be an AverMedia, I have the AverTV Go 007, it has the same chipset. Try to install Lifeview FlyTV Platnum Gold or K-Win V-Stream Studio TV Terminator. Both of these drivers work well with my TV Card.

[Crow]

Thank you Scotsman828 but said card was returned, it messed my hardware to the point that I had no video and needed to reset the bios, I will try another TV Card in the future (I hope  )