Analogue TV tuner card + proprietary nvidia drivers - possible?

[cantab]

I have a Hauppage WinTV PCI analogue tv tuner card (forget the exact model). It's worked under Linux in the past. But now I can't get any picture.

Xawtv gives no picture, and won't let me change the capture mode to overlay. Zapping gives the following error messages on startup:

Cannot restore previous mode:
/usr/sbin/zapping_setup_fb failed.
DMA is not possible on screen 0.

Cannot start capturing: /build/buildd/zapping-0.10~cvs6/src/tveng25.c:map_xbuffers:2578: ioctl VIDIOC_REQBUFS failed: 0, Success

Update: It works with the free nv driver. But I'd like to have it working with the nvidia driver if possible, since I'd rather not have to restart the X server when I want to watch TV.

[arist]

Re: Analogue TV tuner card + proprietary nvidia drivers - possible?

I have the WinTV PVR-150, running in Kubuntu 8.04 with nVidia driver version 173.14.12. I have never gotten the card to work with MythTV, Xawtv, kdetv, or any other such frontend. As far as I can tell they can't handle a card with built-in compression. With VLC, though, it works flawlessly. I click on the PVR tab in File | Open Capture Device.