TwinhanDTV Digital Terrestrial TV Card Ter

This is about the TwinhanDTV Ter Mini, a Twinhan Budget PCI card, capabable of recieving only-digital TV and radio (DVB-T). It's also capabable of HDTV standard 1080i, which I haven't tested as there is no HDTV transmission in UK (whole Europe) yet. Otherwise, the card works well with Linux.

On the package it says: "TwinhanDTV Digital Terrestrial TV Card Ter" but then actually on the side it's ticked "Mini Ter (Low Profile)" (and not "Ter (Standard)"). There's also a sticker saying "Model 3020C".

Company page: [1]

It comes up as Bt878 in lspci:

 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)

Driver / make it work

The BT878 chip is supported by new kernel versions -- good news! :)

This is what I've done (Debian Sarge testing, kernel version 2.6.16.9). It follows the standard installation of the bttv driver for DVB as it is included in new kernels:

In kernel configuration (make menuconfig) make sure to have:

• Under Device Drivers - Multimedia Devices - Video for Linux

 <M> BT 848
 [*] DVB for bt878

which is equivalent to these entries in the kernel .config file:

 xx
 xx

• Under Device Drivers - Sound - ALSA - PCI devices

 <M> BT878

which is equivalent to this entry in the kernel .config file:

 xx

• Somewhere else

 something else

which is equivalent to this entry in the kernel .config file:

 CONFIG_VIDEO_BTCX = m