[TIP] Pinnacle PCTV USB2 50e

[chetoo]

Hi all,

I've been in trouble trying to install a Pinnacle PCTV USB2 50e in my Gentoo Linux (x86_64) all day yesterday. After googling and browsing, I have the following conclusions:

• two kernel modules are needed: em28xx and saa711x
• it does only work if your USB is 2.0 (tried in Gentoo p4 with USB 1.1 with bad image)

I use it to grab images from the Composite input (input=1) using mplayer (tvtime also works, but quality is better in mplayer):

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mplayer -zoom -tv driver=v4l2:input=1:fps=60:norm=ntsc:noaudio:outfmt=yuy2 tv:// -vo x11

I hope this helps future users.

Cheers!

[KaZeR]

Thanks for posting that, it will probably help others!

Maybe you should put a [TIP] in the subject? So that it's clear that you're not requesting help.

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