I have tryed the cat command all I get in the .mpg is snow . I tryes to use composit video and still get snow. Do I have to tell the tuner to tune to line in port rob
On Sunday 16 July 2006 20:00, Nick Rout wrote: > You have a pvr-150 which has onboard mpeg2 encoding. Most standard v4l > software will not play tv from such a card, because it expects a different > format from the card. For example the tvtime supported cards list says: > > "The ivtv driver supports cards that provide high quality MPEG2 encoded > video. This cards are ideal for PVR systems. However, tvtime has no > MPEG2 decoding capabilities or audio playback code, and therefore cannot > be used to watch live TV from these cards." > > Try > > cat /dev/video0 > test.mpeg > ctrl-c to stop > mplayer test.mpeg > > or just: > > mplayer /dev/video > > you can tune the card and adjust the inputs etc with the tools provided > by ivtv. Mine is permanently set to the composite inputs as it used for > the output from a set top box. I have never used the tuner. getting an > external composite video signal like a set top box output a VHS player > is a good way to test. Move onto the tuner once you are sure you can get > composite to work. > > > On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 16:53:29 -0400 > > rob wrote: > > On Saturday 15 July 2006 14:15, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > > On 15 July 2006 18:25, Richard Fish wrote: > > > > On 7/15/06, rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > emerged most of the stuff in media-tv but I can't get anyone of > > > > > thease to show TV most say device not configured. Evan the ones > > > > > that I know point to /dev/video0 > > > > > I think I did everything right. > > > > > pleas help or tell me of a better card to use. > > > > > > > > Are you sure this is a card problem, and not a permissions issue? It > > > > looks like udev makes most of the device nodes in the "video" group. > > > > Is your user account a member of that group? > > > > Well I emerged gentoo-sources with ~86 gave me linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r3. > > Now the tuner comes up and using the ivtv test it now captures only snow > > but it is a start. I have tryed to change channel but it doesn't work. > > Even line in gives me the same thing. Any other seguestions > > > > rob > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
