Malaysia TV Station

  • Malaysia has 4 main free on air TV Broadcast. All these broadcast are in PAL format and the frequency is pretty low. Most channel are not broadcasting 24Hrs though. The four main TV Channel and thier respective frequencies are:

  • Note: The frequencies are not official, I use tvtime-scanner to scan for it in Kulim, therefore your are might have different frequencies

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  • TV1 (174.50MHz - VHF)
  • TV2 (216.75MHz - VHF)
  • TV3 (535.00MHz - UHF)
  • NTV7 (598.35MHz - UHF)

TV Tuner

I use ACORP 9Y878F TV Tuner (with FM). It cost around RM150 in Penang. Might cost less in KL though (you know where ;-) )
ACORP TV Tuner Package

Specification:
Chipset
Tv Tuner
  • Brooktree bt878(878a)
  • LG
    • TV System
    Color Format
  • Full Channel/125 Channel
  • PAL BG
    • FM Radio
  • PV951TF (88MHz-108MHz)
    • Video Input
    Input Format
  • Tuner/FM/S-Video/Composite
  • NTSC/PAL/SECAM
    • Audio Out
  • Stereo Line Out
    • I/R Reciever
  • Remote Control + IR Reciever
    • Linux Driver
  • BTTV (TV System)
  • LIRC (Remote Control)

    • Linux System Configuration

    • This howto will focus mainly on Gentoo 1.4 configuration. However, the configuration is easily ported to RedHat or Slackware not forgetting Mandrake.

      • Step 1 - TV Tuner/FM Driver

    • Most TV Tuner vendor does not provide Linux driver, fortunately the open source community is so hard working and smart to come out with driver that can be used with large number of tuner card. Of course some new tuner card will not work. As for ACORP Tuner card, it is supported using BTTV driver.
      Note: Vanilla kernel must be patched to enable BTTV driver support. Please visit bttv website for patch and patching instruction.
       Assuming that all the necessary compiler too is installed, the first step is to configure the kernel to have I2C support and BTTV driver build.

      Login to your system as root:
      #cp /etc/kernel/default-config /usr/src/linux/.config
      #cd /usr/src/linux
      #make menuconfig

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