Extremely sorry for my previous top post. The exact name of the product is "Pinnacle PCTV Hybrid Pro Stick (DVB-T)"

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Debayan Banerjee debayanin@gmail.comwrote:

Go for a pinnacle usb pluggable tv tuner stick. You will get it in sp road and it is well supported on linux.

great !!

Costs 2500. Will tell you the exact model number in a while.

please send it ,

On 7/2/10, renuka prasad renukaprasadb@gmail.com wrote:

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Hi all

Do any one has any experience of using USB TV Tuner card on GNU /Linux , please share your experience about which model and if any specific configurations have to be done

thanks in advance

Renuka Prasad

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On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 11:00 PM, Debayan Banerjee debayanin@gmail.comwrote:

On 2 July 2010 22:57, renuka prasad renukaprasadb@gmail.com wrote:

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On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Debayan Banerjee debayanin@gmail.com wrote:

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Go for a pinnacle usb pluggable tv tuner stick. You will get it in sp road and it is well supported on linux.

great !!

But note that it is only usable with the normal coaxial cable. It is not compatible with the AV input wires that the set top boxes nowadays come with. So if you have a normal old style cable wire, go for this. --

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On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 11:06 PM, justin joseph justinjoseph007@gmail.comwrote:

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Debayan Banerjee debayanin@gmail.comwrote:

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Go for a pinnacle usb pluggable tv tuner stick. You will get it in sp road and it is well supported on linux. Costs 2500. Will tell you the exact model number in a while.

While buying from SP road it is better to go with a laptop and check out the hardware. Once I bought a Baffo (maybe wrong name) USB to Serial adaptor and later found it to not work because it wanted drivers(M$ support only), later I figured out that that there are duplicate low cost version of baffo without any chip(like the win modems) which need drivers to work with windows. The hardware might look and be packed the same, but might be duplicate's and only some vendors will inform about them being cheap lookalikes(that works(on windows alone)).

yes true , it has happened with me in some other case , esp in SP road we should be careful, I usually go to a vendor whom i know since 10 years , hope he wont cheat

thanks for your advice

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On 7/2/10, renuka prasad renukaprasadb@gmail.com wrote:

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Hi all

Do any one has any experience of using USB TV Tuner card on GNU /Linux , please share your experience about which model and if any specific configurations have to be done

thanks in advance

Renuka Prasad

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Hi, I have taken Frontec USB TV Box tuner card. It doesn't work with Linux. I have tried on Fedora,Ubuntu,etc.It works with windows 7 peacefully. On Linux, problem is : I have in-built web cam on my Laptop and this USB tuner external.So whenever by default cam goes into /dev/video0 and no other thing like video1 or video2. Then where tv tuner goes?

If I do mplayer -tv /dev/video0 it plays web cam.

Regards, Devesh

On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 12:08 AM, narendra sisodiya < narendra@narendrasisodiya.com> wrote:

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 10:10 PM, renuka prasad renukaprasadb@gmail.comwrote:

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Hi all

Do any one has any experience of using USB TV Tuner card on GNU /Linux , please share your experience about which model and if any specific configurations have to be done

thanks in advance

Renuka Prasad

Checkout the source code - http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v2.6.34/Documentation/video4linux Here you can find Cardlist. I think, it should help you. If you have linux-laptop then you can check on shop itself.

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Hi, This is the output of 'lsusb' :

[root@TuxGuru devesh]# lsusb

Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 003 Device 002: ID 19d2:fffe ONDA Communication S.p.A. Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 001 Device 007: ID 6000:0001 Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0bda:0158 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. USB 2.0 multicard reader Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0408:13e0 Quanta Computer, Inc. Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

*This is my TV Tuner major minor no:* * * *Bus 001 Device 007: ID 6000:0001*

& Here this is dmesg :

[root@TuxGuru devesh]# dmesg |tail -10

PPP generic driver version 2.4.2 PPP Deflate Compression module registered usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 2 SELinux: initialized (dev proc, type proc), uses genfs_contexts usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6 usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=6000, idProduct=0001 usb 1-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=16, Product=32, SerialNumber=64 usb 1-2: Product: TVBOX usb 1-2: Manufacturer: Trident usb 1-2: SerialNumber: 2004090820040908 [root@TuxGuru devesh]#

On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 11:58 AM, narendra sisodiya < narendra@narendrasisodiya.com> wrote:

On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 9:40 AM, d dost4frnd@gmail.com wrote:

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Hi, I have taken Frontec USB TV Box tuner card. It doesn't work with Linux. I have tried on Fedora,Ubuntu,etc.It works with windows 7 peacefully. On Linux, problem is : I have in-built web cam on my Laptop and this USB tuner external.So whenever by default cam goes into /dev/video0 and no other thing like video1 or video2. Then where tv tuner goes?

If I do mplayer -tv /dev/video0 it plays web cam.

Can you paste you lsbusb output ? what is the device major and minor number ?

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Hi,

I did everything a/c to this : http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Trident_TM6000

I found one issue regarding this:

patch -p1 < tm6000-makefile-dvb-tree.patch

I edit patch file and added one line :

obj-$(CONFIG_VIDEO_TLG2300) += tlg2300/ (because of this patch was doing its job with Makefile ;) )

Now It was almost over. But when i put :

/sbin/modprobe tm6000

dmesg gave me: usb 1-2: firmware: requesting xc3028-v24.fw xc2028 2-0061: Error: firmware xc3028-v24.fw not found. usb 1-2: firmware: requesting xc3028-v24.fw xc2028 2-0061: Error: firmware xc3028-v24.fw not found. Trident TVMaster TM5600/TM6000/TM6010 USB2 board (Load status: 0) usbcore: registered new interface driver tm6000 tm6000: open called (dev=video0) Original value=96 tm6000: open called (dev=video0)

Then i used :

$dd if=tridvid.sys ibs=1 skip=145441 count=2632 of=tm6000-firmware1 $dd if=tridvid.sys ibs=1 skip=148089 count=3870 of=tm6000-firmware2

cp tm6000-firmware2 /lib/firmware/xc3028-v24.fw

Again,This was output of dmesg : tm6000: New video device @ 480 Mbps (6000:0001, ifnum 0) tm6000: Found 10Moons UT 821 Board version = 0x67980cf3 board=0x67980cf3 tm6000 #0: i2c eeprom 00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ tm6000 #0: i2c eeprom 10: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ tm6000 #0: i2c eeprom 20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ tm6000 #0: i2c eeprom 30: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ tm6000 #0: i2c eeprom 40: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ tm6000 #0: i2c eeprom 50: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ tm6000 #0: i2c eeprom 60: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ tm6000 #0: i2c eeprom 70: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ tm6000 #0: i2c eeprom 80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ tm6000 #0: i2c eeprom 90: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ tm6000 #0: i2c eeprom a0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ tm6000 #0: i2c eeprom b0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ tm6000 #0: i2c eeprom c0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ tm6000 #0: i2c eeprom d0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ tm6000 #0: i2c eeprom e0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ tm6000 #0: i2c eeprom f0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ ................ tuner 2-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (tm6000 #0) xc2028 2-0061: creating new instance xc2028 2-0061: type set to XCeive xc2028/xc3028 tuner Setting firmware parameters for xc2028 usb 1-2: firmware: requesting xc3028-v24.fw xc2028 2-0061: Loading 12336 firmware images from xc3028-v24.fw, type: 00000000000000000000000000000000, ver 48.48 xc2028 2-0061: Firmware type D2633 DTV6 LCD NOGD OREN538 OREN36 INPUT2 SCODE (30303030), id 3030303030303030 is corrupted (size=3818, expected 808464432) xc2028 2-0061: Error: firmware file is corrupted! xc2028 2-0061: Releasing partially loaded firmware file. usb 1-2: firmware: requesting xc3028-v24.fw xc2028 2-0061: Loading 12336 firmware images from xc3028-v24.fw, type: 00000000000000000000000000000000, ver 48.48 xc2028 2-0061: Firmware type D2633 DTV6 LCD NOGD OREN538 OREN36 INPUT2 SCODE (30303030), id 3030303030303030 is corrupted (size=3818, expected 808464432) xc2028 2-0061: Error: firmware file is corrupted! xc2028 2-0061: Releasing partially loaded firmware file. Trident TVMaster TM5600/TM6000/TM6010 USB2 board (Load status: 0) usbcore: registered new interface driver tm6000 tm6000: open called (dev=video0) Original value=96 tm6000: open called (dev=video0)

After that i used extract_xc3028.pl to get firmware but I was at the same point.

Now my requirement is to get "xc3028-v24.fw" from "tridvid.sys"

Thanks & Cheers, Devesh On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 4:18 PM, narendra sisodiya < narendra@narendrasisodiya.com> wrote:

On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 12:20 PM, devesh dost4frnd@gmail.com wrote:

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Hi, This is the output of 'lsusb' :

[root@TuxGuru devesh]# lsusb

Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 003 Device 002: ID 19d2:fffe ONDA Communication S.p.A. Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 001 Device 007: ID 6000:0001 Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0bda:0158 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. USB 2.0 multicard reader Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0408:13e0 Quanta Computer, Inc. Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

*This is my TV Tuner major minor no:*

*Bus 001 Device 007: ID 6000:0001*

After a Google search , I fount this page - http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Trident_TM6000

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Hey,

I think you didn't get what i wanted to say. Well, I have tridvid.sys from its installation CD. But I want to generate firmware out of this file using perl script( get_firmware.pl).That's the only thing I am not able to do.

I have created "xc3028-v24.fw" using that script but while loading that module into the kernel it shows 'corrupted file'. Also, I used dd method to make "xc3028-v24.fw" file,in that case same error,otherwise everything is almost ok.

-Devesh On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 5:26 PM, narendra sisodiya < narendra@narendrasisodiya.com> wrote:

On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 11:35 AM, devesh dost4frnd@gmail.com wrote:

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After that i used extract_xc3028.pl to get firmware but I was at the same point.

Now my requirement is to get "xc3028-v24.fw" from "tridvid.sys"

Look for the CD of windows driver. Open with Linux and extract all the files. You will get these files inside CD.