How to get BT878 audio working properly on Ubuntu?

[jvdstoel1]

Hello,

I am using VLC to encode audio/video into H.264/MPEG4A. For this purpose, I am using an Osprey 210 card using the BT878 chip. However, if I understand well, this chip is not supported by default by ALSA/Ubuntu. You should use OSS for this purpose. I tried to install the ALSA wrapper for OSS applications (alsa-oss) and the base package for ALSA and OSS sound systems (linux-sound-base). But after installing these packages, I still don't get good audio. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong, or even better: how to get this problem solved? I am using a motherboard with Intel audio chipset and Q6600 CPU. I have tested this both with Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10.

Thanks a lot!

Johan

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Have you tried v4l API ?

[kuldeepiitk]

Hi,

I have been trying to install Osprey 210 on Ubuntu 9.10 machine. I didn't find drivers for the same anywhere. If you have been successful in installing the same, please help me.

Thanks,
Kuldeep

[jvdstoel]

Hello Kuldeep,

We have spent too much time on writing our own driver. The Linux BT878 drivers unfortunately don't support audio. It was a hell of a job to do it; we now have a commercial product developed (our Maven video encoder), so hope to get some money back on sales -;)

Johan