Hauppauge installation

[vadre]

I've installed Centos on my computer with kernell-version 2.6.9-42.ELsmp. Now I managed most things to work. But I can't configure my TV-card. I have a debian system to and there I could get the card working. I tried a couple of tutorials and solutions but I'm afraid I'll mess up some things. Maybe some-one could help me al little further.
I'm using Tvtime to watch but I get this error.

[root@localhost jasper]# tvtime
Running tvtime 1.0.1.
Reading configuration from /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml
Reading configuration from /root/.tvtime/tvtime.xml
videoinput: Cannot open capture device /dev/video0: No such file or directory
Thank you for using tvtime.

This is because there are no drivers installed I guess.
This is what I get when I type lspci

[root@localhost jasper]# /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Inte rface (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Contr oller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Contr oller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Contr oller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Contr oller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Cont roller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Brid ge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB (ICH5) SATA Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 0 2)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) A C'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (rev 01)
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200 PRO] (Second ary) (rev 01)
02:01.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture ( rev 02)
02:01.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 02 )
02:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
02:03.0 Communication controller: Conexant HSF 56k Data/Fax/Voice Modem (rev 01)
02:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 04)
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82562EZ 10/100 Ethernet Controlle r (rev 01)

As you see, my capture devicese are recognized. Can anyone push me in the right direction?

regards

[iHateRegistering]

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[oz]

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First, let me say sorry for the off-topic...

I think the timeout is something like 15 minutes. If you have a really long post, it's best to put it in a text editor, then when you are ready to post you can copy/paste it into the forum for any needing formating and submission.

At least that works pretty well for me...

[vadre]

Ok, I managed to open the capture device I guess. When I open tvtime I don't have the error anymore. Now when I try to scan for channels he doesn't find them. My configuration is allright I think, because this is what I get when I verbose:

[root@localhost .tvtime]# tvtime -v
Running tvtime 1.0.1.
Reading configuration from /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml
Reading configuration from /root/.tvtime/tvtime.xml
cpuinfo: CPU Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz, family 15, model 2, stepping 9.
cpuinfo: CPU measured at 2593.946MHz.
xcommon: Display :0.0, vendor The X.Org Foundation, vendor release 60802000
xfullscreen: Single-head detected, pixel aspect will be calculated.
xfullscreen: Pixel aspect ratio on the primary head is: 764/755 == 1.01.
xfullscreen: Using the XFree86-VidModeExtension to calculate fullscreen size.
xfullscreen: Fullscreen to 0,0 with size 1280x1024.
xcommon: Have XTest, will use it to ping the screensaver.
xcommon: Pixel aspect ratio 1:1.
xcommon: Pixel aspect ratio 1:1.
xcommon: Window manager is Metacity and is EWMH compliant.
xcommon: You are using metacity.  Disabling aspect ratio hints
xcommon: since most deployed versions of metacity are still broken.
xcommon: Using EWMH state fullscreen property.
xcommon: Using EWMH state above property.
xcommon: Using EWMH state below property.
xcommon: Pixel aspect ratio 1:1.
xcommon: Displaying in a 768x576 window inside 768x576 space.
xvoutput: Using XVIDEO adaptor 69: ATI Radeon Video Overlay.
speedycode: Using MMXEXT optimized functions.
station: Reading stationlist from /root/.tvtime/stationlist.xml
videoinput: Using video4linux2 driver 'bttv', card 'BT878 video (Hauppauge (bt878))' (bus PCI:0000:02:01.0).
videoinput: Version is 2319, capabilities 5010015.
videoinput: Maximum input width: 924 pixels.
tvtime: Sampling input at 720 pixels per scanline.
xcommon: Pixel aspect ratio 1:1.
xcommon: Displaying in a 768x576 window inside 768x576 space.
xcommon: Received a map, marking window as visible (65).

So I downloaded xawtv but when I open it I got this output:

[root@localhost .tvtime]# xawtv
This is xawtv-3.94, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.9-42.ELsmp)
load_codec_info_from_plugin: dlopen failed for /usr/lib/libquicktime/lqt_ffmpeg.so: /usr/lib/libquicktime/lqt_ffmpeg.so: undefined symbol: avcodec_init
Segmentation fault

I think that I'm not far away anymore, but I'm stuck. Can anyone help me?

regards

[vadre]

I've searched for about 5 hours now to make xawtv work and i'm about to give up. I don't get it. When I installed debian I didn't need to do anything. It just worked. If I can't get this working I think I have to go back to another debian-like distribution.

regards

[Roxoff]

Debian does have an enormous package base. I use my Hauppauge card (although a DVB-T card, not an analogue one like yours) from FC6 with kaffeine, and it needed nothing else.

[vadre]

I discovered when I try to install VLC or Kaffeine. I get this error

--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: libFLAC.so.7 is needed by package xine-lib
Error: Missing Dependency: libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.6) is needed by package libcdio
Error: Missing Dependency: libcdio.so.6(CDIO_6) is needed by package xine-lib
Error: Missing Dependency: libcdio.so.6 is needed by package xine-lib
Error: Missing Dependency: libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.4) is needed by package libcdio
Error: Missing Dependency: libiso9660.so.4 is needed by package xine-lib

I think I'm just missing some required libs or anything else but I don't find them. I even downloaded libstdc++ from a rpm-site and I had nothing but errors.
I also tried to boot form a knoppix-live-cd and my tv-card works. So the problem lies defenitly by Centos. Maybe I should download Fedora core 6 and just format again.
Actually I have debian on my laptop and I use it for programming and other technical issues and that's great, but I wanted a nice desktop distribution to manage pictures, videos, (ntfs-support ) like windows because my girlfriend is not that familiar with the command line syntax , but i'm trying to step of windows because it drives me crazy sometimes.

[Roxoff]

Ahhh, CentOS is very much a server installation. It's a rebadge of RedHat Enterprise Linux. For desktop use you're much better off with one of the other distributions you mentioned. Fedora Core 6 I use myself and I like it a lot, but you may want to try Ubuntu or Debian, or Gentoo, or any of the others.