[MPlayer-users] No cable input from tv card

[Hans du Plooy]

On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 11:27 +0100, Nico Sabbi wrote:
> Shocky wrote:
> 
> >Yes! card=15 tuner=6 did the trick. I even have sound (which I haven't been 
> >able to get through s-video)! Thanks for all the help.
> >  
> >
> you had better submit a patch against bttv-cards.c with your entries,
> (mimic one the other entries based on your pci ids)
> so in the future you or someone else can safely modprobe bttv without 
> parameters
> and recognize all the components automatically

According to the author of bttv (can't remember his name now), this
particular card don't have the goodies to enable autodetection for the
card= and tuner= values.  For as long as I had it and in every distro I
used, I had to specify those values for insmod.

Hans