Phillips SAA7139 TV tuner card not working [closed]

When I had windows 7 installed on my computer, My TV tuner card used to work fine after installing the drivers but on Ubuntu it is not working. I have tried several Softwares to get it working but none helped. Today I installed Me TV and when I open it, I get an error saying:

There are no DVB devices available

What can I do to get my Philips TV Tuner card working. I have a PCI card and here is the output of lspi command:

04:00.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7130 Video Broadcast Decoder (rev 01)

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3 Answers

I used to have a Kworld Xpert TV PVR7134 with the SAA7134-based tvtuner You will need to find card and tuner numbers , for my card it was card=63 tuner=56. I had to add these options to /etc/modprobe.d/saa7134 with echo "options saa7134 card=63 tuner=56" > /etc/modprobe.d/saa7134

More to read:

• my card:

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Try installing linux-firmware-nonfree.

It has historically held a lot of drivers for TV cards and usb sticks.

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At first you have to tell the make and model of the card, then you need to create a modprobe.conf file in the /etc folder manually, then run the command:

gksu nautilus

in the terminal and browse to the /etc folder, create an empty file, name it modprobe.conf then paste the following code:

# sets tv card for both analogue and digital
options saa7134 tuner=39 card=116 gbuffers=4

The numbers after tuner= and card= are variable according to your model.

For more documentation look here.

Then save the file, close the folder and restart, than install 'Tvtime' from the software centre but don't open it and run the following command first on the terminal:

tvtime-scanner

after completing the above scan open Tvtime from the Sound & Video menu