Computers 'n Stuff: Howto install the Pinnacle PCTV analog USB (PCTV USB 2, 150e / 55e) OpenSuse 10.2 64Bit

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Howto install the Pinnacle PCTV analog USB (PCTV USB 2, 150e / 55e) OpenSuse 10.2 64Bit

PCTV analog USB (Pinnacle Systems GmbH 150e/55e PAL/SEC) Works! It is detected as Pinnacle PCTV USB2 and supported by the em28xx driver.
The TV decoder chip on this device is
  • em2820.
The label on the tuner reads:
  • LG TAPE-S701D 601F0514.
Other chips:
  • EMP202.
  • Phillips
  • SAA7113H,
  • TIPS6:120,
  • PIC16C54C
# dmesg
em28xx v4l2 driver version 0.0.1 loaded
em28xx new video device (2304:0208): interface 0, class 255
em28xx #0: Alternate settings: 8
em28xx #0: Alternate setting 0, max size= 0
em28xx #0: Alternate setting 1, max size= 1024
em28xx #0: Alternate setting 2, max size= 1448
em28xx #0: Alternate setting 3, max size= 2048
em28xx #0: Alternate setting 4, max size= 2304
em28xx #0: Alternate setting 5, max size= 2580
em28xx #0: Alternate setting 6, max size= 2892
em28xx #0: Alternate setting 7, max size= 3072
saa7115 8-0025: saa7113 found @ 0x4a (em28xx #0)
tuner 8-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (em28xx #0)
tda9887 8-0043: tda988[5/6/7] found @ 0x43 (tuner)
tuner 8-0063: chip found @ 0xc6 (em28xx #0)
tuner 8-0063: type set to 37 (LG PAL (newer TAPC series))
em28xx #0: i2c eeprom 00: 1a eb 67 95 04 23 08 02 10 00 1e 03 98 1e 6a 2e
em28xx #0: i2c eeprom 10: 00 00 06 57 6e 00 00 00 8e 00 00 00 07 00 00 00
em28xx #0: i2c eeprom 20: 16 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
em28xx #0: i2c eeprom 30: 00 00 20 40 20 80 02 20 10 01 00 00 00 00 00 00
em28xx #0: i2c eeprom 40: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
em28xx #0: i2c eeprom 50: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
em28xx #0: i2c eeprom 60: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 2e 03 50 00 69 00
em28xx #0: i2c eeprom 70: 6e 00 6e 00 61 00 63 00 6c 00 65 00 20 00 53 00
em28xx #0: i2c eeprom 80: 79 00 73 00 74 00 65 00 6d 00 73 00 20 00 47 00
em28xx #0: i2c eeprom 90: 6d 00 62 00 48 00 00 00 1e 03 50 00 43 00 54 00
em28xx #0: i2c eeprom a0: 56 00 20 00 55 00 53 00 42 00 32 00 20 00 50 00
em28xx #0: i2c eeprom b0: 41 00 4c 00 00 00 06 03 31 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
em28xx #0: i2c eeprom c0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
em28xx #0: i2c eeprom d0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
em28xx #0: i2c eeprom e0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
em28xx #0: i2c eeprom f0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0e 5d 62 39 03 ad 97 e4
EEPROM ID= 0x9567eb1a
Vendor/Product ID= 2304:0208
AC97 audio (5 sample rates)
500mA max power
Table at 0x06, strings=0x1e98, 0x2e6a, 0x0000
registered VBI
em28xx #0: V4L2 device registered as /dev/video0 and /dev/vbi0
em28xx #0: Found Pinnacle PCTV USB 2
usbcore: registered new driver em28xx

# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 2304:0208 Pinnacle Systems, Inc. [hex] Pinnacle Studio PCTV USB2

Suse 10.2 Recognizes the divice and loads the em28xx driver automatically when device is plugged into USB 2.0 port.

Install: mplayer, video4linux2 (v4l2), sox

Successfull commands to start tv-playback:

# sox -t ossdsp -r 48000 -b -c 2 /dev/dsp1 -t ossdsp /dev/dsp

REM: this will pipe PCTV USB2 audio stream (dsp1) to installed Soundcard device (dsp2)

# v4lctl -c /dev/video0 volume mute off

REM: turns muting of video0 device (PCTV USB2 v4l2 device) off = sound on.

# mplayer -tv device=/dev/video0:amode=0:input=0:norm=PAL:driver=v4l2:outfmt=yuy2 tv://

REM: starts the mplayer with tv playback from video0 with PAL norm. This way i can get audio and video. channels can be swiched with H and K/L on the keyboard when the focus is on mplayer window.

Another possibility to watch TV where audio playback needs no sox, yet channelswitching is buggy:

# mplayer -tv driver=v4l2:device=/dev/video0:amode=1:input=0:norm=PAL:adevice=/dev/dsp1:immediatemode=0:audiorate=48000 tv://

command options will be explained in the man pages of mplayer under -tv option
scantv mythtv and kdetv tvtime don't work with the opensuse 10.2 version of the em28xx driver.




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3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yes,

This works fine.

Do you have the remote working yet?

John
www.listpropertiesnow.com

Saturday, July 26, 2008 1:55:00 AM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thanks a lot.
CHeers,
Zoran

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