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  1. cx8800 release notes
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  2. ====================
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  4. This is a v4l2 device driver for the cx2388x chip.
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  7. current status
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  8. ==============
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  10. video
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  11. 	- Basically works.
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  12. 	- For now, only capture and read(). Overlay isn't supported.
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  14. audio
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  15. 	- The chip specs for the on-chip TV sound decoder are next
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  16. 	  to useless :-/
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  17. 	- Neverless the builtin TV sound decoder starts working now,
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  18. 	  at least for some standards.
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  19. 	  FOR ANY REPORTS ON THIS PLEASE MENTION THE TV NORM YOU ARE
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  20. 	  USING.
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  21. 	- Most tuner chips do provide mono sound, which may or may not
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  22. 	  be useable depending on the board design.  With the Hauppauge
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  23. 	  cards it works, so there is mono sound available as fallback.
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  24. 	- audio data dma (i.e. recording without loopback cable to the
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  25. 	  sound card) is supported via cx88-alsa.
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  27. vbi
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  28. 	- Code present. Works for NTSC closed caption. PAL and other
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  29. 	  TV norms may or may not work.
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  32. how to add support for new cards
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  33. ================================
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  35. The driver needs some config info for the TV cards.  This stuff is in
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  36. cx88-cards.c.  If the driver doesn't work well you likely need a new
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  37. entry for your card in that file.  Check the kernel log (using dmesg)
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  38. to see whenever the driver knows your card or not.  There is a line
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  39. like this one:
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  41. 	cx8800[0]: subsystem: 0070:3400, board: Hauppauge WinTV \
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  42. 		34xxx models [card=1,autodetected]
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  44. If your card is listed as "board: UNKNOWN/GENERIC" it is unknown to
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  45. the driver.  What to do then?
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  46. 

  47.  (1) Try upgrading to the latest snapshot, maybe it has been added
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  48.      meanwhile.
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  49.  (2) You can try to create a new entry yourself, have a look at
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  50.      cx88-cards.c.  If that worked, mail me your changes as unified
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  51.      diff ("diff -u").
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  52.  (3) Or you can mail me the config information.  I need at least the
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  53.      following informations to add the card:
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  55.      * the PCI Subsystem ID ("0070:3400" from the line above,
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  56.        "lspci -v" output is fine too).
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  57.      * the tuner type used by the card.  You can try to find one by
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  58.        trial-and-error using the tuner=<n> insmod option.  If you
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  59.        know which one the card has you can also have a look at the
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  60.        list in CARDLIST.tuner
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  62. Have fun,
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  63. 

  64.   Gerd
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  66. --
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  67. Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org> [SuSE Labs]
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