Sensoray 911 Quick Start - Manual

Sensoray Model 810/811/911
Quick-Start Instruction for Linux
1) Sensoray Model 810/811/911 applied the NXP SAA713xHL chipset as the A/V
(Video and Audio) capture device. Therefore, under Linux, the native
saa7134 and saa7134_alsa device drivers come with the kernel, can be used
for the Model 810/811/911. The API complies with the V4L2 (Video For Linux
Two) API specification. Refer to:
http://v4l2spec.bytesex.org/v4l2spec/v4l2.pdf or
http://v4l2spec.bytesex.org/spec/ or
http://linuxtv.org/downloads/v4l-dvb-apis/ ,
for the specification details.
2)
Normally, when user(s) installed any one of the popular/professional Linux
distributions like Ubuntu, openSUSE, RedHat, Fedora, CentOS, Linux-Mint,
etc., the saa7134 and saa7134_alsa driver modules should be installed in
the system, by default/ and automatically.
3) To check if the driver modules are installed, from a terminal window,
using command “locate saa7134”, you would see that they are in directory:
/lib/modules/2.6.?-?-generic/kernel/drivers/media/video/saa7134/.
4) If not, or you want to get the latest V4L-DVB driver package installed,
refer to “
How to Obtain, Build and Install V4L-DVB Device Dirvers” at
http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/How_to_Obtain,_Build_and_Install_V4L-DVB_Device_Drivers ,
to get the driver installed/updated.
5) Once make sure the saa7134 and saa7134_alsa are installed properly, from
root/su, unload and reload the saa7134 and saa7134_alsa drivers, by using:
pulseaudio –k; rmmod -w saa7134_alsa
modprobe –r saa7134
modprobe saa7134 card=188,188,188,188
(for the installed V4L-DVB has the Model 811/911 card ID adopted)
or
modprobe saa7134 card=73,73,73,73
( for the installed V4L-DVB has not had the Model 811/911 own
card/device ID adopted in kernel or V4L-DVB. Temporarily,
card=73,73,73,73 can be used for Model 810/811/911 )
or
modprobe saa7134 card=188,188,188,188,188,188,188,188
or modprobe saa7134 card=73,73,73,73,73,73,73,73
( for the users using two Model 810/811/911 boards )
then, exit from root/su and return to user.
6)
Then, any one of the commonly-used live-video preview and/or A/V capturing
applications, including
XawTV , VLC , TV-Time , MPlayer , and GStreamer , etc.,
can be used for preview/capturing video and audio, from the Model
810/811/911.
7)
For the users using XawTV and with Ubnutu/Mint Linux distro, followings
are the procedures and commands for Quick-Start and preview HOWTO:
$ sudo apt-get install xawtv
$ xawtv –c /dev/video0 &
(for Channel-1 preview)