BT878 TV Tuner Feedback

[bocboc400]

my fixing instructions are for the itv 0.4, see the links in the post, try this with bt848/878 based pci cards.

 

and if you have questions, ask me:)

 

card leadtek winfast 2000 deluxe pci (ipc 10.5.6)

thanks ontheground for the kext installation. works great. 1 issue i encounter at first was there was no sound.

press A, then select Input Mic or LINE IN and static loud sound come out After scan (press S) . Picture and sound work . Although not 100 % fully working (some channel not picked up in the UHF band) and little snowy picture on some channells im really happy it worked out hahaha

[Q-Base]

Hi!!

I have the same card like you, can you help me with some info pls?

1. what kind of card did you selected on menu

2. what kind of tuner type did you selected?

3. input source in menu?

 

 

kind regards!!

 

 

 

card leadtek winfast 2000 deluxe pci (ipc 10.5.6)

thanks ontheground for the kext installation. works great. 1 issue i encounter at first was there was no sound.

press A, then select Input Mic or LINE IN and static loud sound come out After scan (press S) . Picture and sound work . Although not 100 % fully working (some channel not picked up in the UHF band) and little snowy picture on some channells im really happy it worked out hahaha

[Amacx86]

Hi guys.

 

After a couple of hard, but succesful triing to make my CPH 06x branded (brooktree bt 878 based) tv tuner working, i decided to write a tutorial for leopard.

 

2 years ago I had installed the 10.4.8 Jas Tiger, and after I had installed the itv 0.4. i put the attached bt8xx.kext to the /System/Library/Extensions and after deleting the /System/Librar/Extensions.mkext & /System/Librar/Extensions.kextcach rebooted, and everything worked fine.

 

A couple of days ago I've installed the 10.5.8 iDeneb Leopard and did the same with chmod/chown too.

And the kext failed to load....

 

So the workaround: How to force loading a kext on startup:

 

1. Get an itv 0.4 intel from here

2. Install the itv folder to the Applications folder

3. Install the bt8xx.kext with kexthelper to the /System/Library/Extensions

3. open a terminal, type: su

and your root password

now you have root privileges

type: chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/Extensions/bt8xx.kext

type:chmod -R 775 /System/Library/Extensions/bt8xx.kext

now the kext have right permissions

4. copy the attached(see below) com.itv.bt8xx.plist to the /Library/LaunchDaemons with this:

mv /Downloads/com.itv.bt8xx.plist /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.itv.bt8xx.plist

5. type: chown root:wheel /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.itv.bt8xx.plist

chmod 644 /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.itv.bt8xx.plist

these are the MUST settings to make an autoload for the kext

6. type: launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.itv.bt8xx.plist

this makes the autoload for the kext

7. check this with: launchctl list

if you can see "com.itv.bt8xx" on the list, you have success.

8. Now if you reboot or turn on your computer, the bt8xx.kext loads

you can check it within a terminal window, type: kextstat

if you can see " de.berlin.lightware.bt8xx" on the list the kext loads.

9. Now you can start the itv application, and you can play with the preferences until you make your card working. My CPH 06x needs the Card->Askey, Tuner->Temic Pal, TV Format->PALBDGHI, Video Source->Input 1, Audio Source->Intern, Deinterlace->Linear Blend settings. now you can make a search with the s key.

 

And whoala, the itv 0.4 works on Leo too

 

I'm looking for a digital tuner card that I can install in my Hackintosh and watch TV.

 

I'd prefer PCI to USB just because I don't like having a lot of extra clutter.

 

Some sort of coax input that I could use to feed cable TV to the computer...

 

Any recommendations?

 

What effect does the changeover to digital TV have on this sort of a project?