TV Tuner card driver possibly works, but no app?

[nemattoad]

I have been trying everything to get my tv tuner card, a hauppauge winTV go, working under osx86. It is a bt878 chipset with a phillips NTSC tuner which is arguably the most well supported combination of hardware on any OS. I am running OSX86 10.4.4 in VESA 3.0 mode with a SSE3 kernel.

 

I got a working x86 kext out of iTV 0.4, BUT iTV 0.4 wont launch (someone here said it needs openGL, and I am in VESA mode so that may be why). I believe the kext works because when I load it, it makes a new device, /dev/bktr0, and there also also some messages in the kernel log files that say a bunch of stuff about my tv tuner, about how it has been associated with the driver and whatnot.

 

I tried XTv, but for XTv, the app seems to launch, but not get any input and I don't think it sees the device. The app looks a little funny to me, and I don't think it is working 100%, most likely because it needs openGL too. So, I downloaded the source to xTV and noticed it had its own bt8xx.kext, which could possibly make xtv work, lo-and-behold, the precompiled one is a PPC binary, and compiling it fails (as does compiling almost anything else in the xtv source tree).

 

Lastly, my search ended at mplayer. Having used linux often, I was overjoyed to hear mplayer existed for OS X, surely this was the solution. In linux, a simple mplayer -tv driver=bttv and all the other video in/out options works flawlessly, and is a great testing method. I googled up on what the "driver" would be for os x, and I came up with driver=bsdbt848. I gave it a try, and it said driver not found. It was kind enough however to give me a green window that said using null dummy driver, so at least mplayer is not broken. I also tried tons of driver and device variations (/dev/bktr0) with/without specifying a driver, but NOTHING worked.

 

So here is where I ask for help Does anyone know how I can get my tv tuner working?

 

Thanks in advance

[bpeugh]

Yeah, you need OpenGL for iTV to work so pull out the card and use Intel GMA9xx if you have it. There is another thread on this here in the forum if you look as to what other people have done.