Video44 using bttv chrashes

... or how to disable modules at boot-up.

I have an old PCI TV card, BT848A video (MIRO PCTV). This card does not have any circuits for audio sample grabbing, and any video4linux application like xawtv, wmtv or kdetv will break on the module tvaudio.ko (the module video seems dependant of it).

We want to disable loading of this and that can be done by adding the following line in /etc/discover.conf

skip tvaudio

( tip from: http://www.webservertalk.com/message173405.html )

Originally no player could control the card. Detecting which card was used and which module (and parameters) were used using the command:

xawtv -hwscan

We got some information about a generic card beeing used. So I added (in the file /etc/modules):

bttv

And the file /etc/modprobe.d/tv was added including the following line:

options bttv card=1 radio=0 tuner=0 gbuffers=15

I'm not certain about the radio option, but it doesnt seem to matter. The module tvaudio does however...

Instead I used the analog cable and connected it to a free analog input on the MB. Now we only need to figure out how to make VLC mix in this audio-streem so that we can broadcast the whole thing ;)