Re: [ivtv-devel] quality difference seen between PVR-150 and PVR-350 in same box

2005-07-17 Thread John Andersen
On Friday 15 July 2005 5:32 am, Jim Reith wrote: I was lying back last night and enjoying the fact that I had my MythTV box working mostly and playing around when I noticed that for the exact same channel (swapping from tuner to tuner) the PVR-150 is crystal clear and the PVR-350 has some

[ivtv-devel] Audio hiss w/350

2005-07-17 Thread Neal Clayton
I noticed one post in the archives about this but didn't see a solution and it was quite some time ago so here it is again, hopefully someone has seen and corrected this since then and I just missed it. i'm using 0.3.6z on slackware 10.1 with a 2.6 kernel... 02:0e.0 Multimedia video

Re: [ivtv-devel] quality difference seen between PVR-150 and PVR-350 in same box

2005-07-17 Thread Jim Reith
On Friday 15 July 2005 5:32 am, Jim Reith wrote: I was lying back last night and enjoying the fact that I had my MythTV box working mostly and playing around when I noticed that for the exact same channel (swapping from tuner to tuner) the PVR-150 is crystal clear and the PVR-350 has some

Re: [ivtv-devel] quality difference seen between PVR-150 and PVR-350 in same box

2005-07-17 Thread Nick Rosier
On 7/17/05, Jim Reith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: argh! I had 10 minutes and so I went up to try it now and can't really see any difference between them now 8^( But I can HEAR a difference. There is definitely a volume difference between the two tuners on the same channel. I'm patching the 350

Re: [ivtv-devel] Audio hiss w/350

2005-07-17 Thread Marcel Janssen
On Sunday 17 July 2005 11:43, Neal Clayton wrote: http://xayd.nbfl.net/ivtv_hiss.mpa any ideas? Although there's noise, also the volume of this sample is very low. Perhaps just increasing volume will help. Regards, Marcel --- SF.Net email

Re: [ivtv-devel] quality difference seen between PVR-150 and PVR-350 in same box

2005-07-17 Thread Jim Reith
On 7/17/05, Jim Reith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: argh! I had 10 minutes and so I went up to try it now and can't really see any difference between them now 8^( But I can HEAR a difference. There is definitely a volume difference between the two tuners on the same channel. I'm patching the 350

[ivtv-devel] Fw: [UNKNOWN CARD] please help PVR-150 only getting bw video

2005-07-17 Thread Ricardo Kleemann
Hi all, Sorry to re-post, but I've had no responses at all... can someone help me out? Thanks Ricardo - Original Message - From: Ricardo Kleemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ivtv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 5:04 PM Subject: [UNKNOWN CARD] please help PVR-150

[ivtv-devel] Video image chopped tiled strangely

2005-07-17 Thread Daniel A Segel
Using ivtv 0.3.6z and ivtvdev 0.10.4 on an NTSC PVR-350, viewing recorded programs or Live TV in MythTV. The picture onscreen is chopped up and rearranged like this: The lower-right portion of the image (about 1/6 height and half width) is shown in the top left. The lower-left portion of the

Re: [ivtv-devel] Emulators on xv?

2005-07-17 Thread Niklas Brunlid
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 21:40:50 +0200, John Harvey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I first got my PVR350 working, one of the first things I tried (as an old Amiga user) was running UAE on it, thinking I could waste many hours on stuff like Pinball Dreams/Fantasies/Illusions or Slam Tilt on my

Re: [ivtv-devel] Video image chopped tiled strangely

2005-07-17 Thread Ian Armstrong
On Sunday 17 Jul 2005 22:05, Daniel A Segel wrote: Using ivtv 0.3.6z and ivtvdev 0.10.4 on an NTSC PVR-350, viewing recorded programs or Live TV in MythTV. The picture onscreen is chopped up and rearranged like this: The lower-right portion of the image (about 1/6 height and half width) is

[ivtv-devel] ivtv 0.3.6w, or FC3 ver 2.6.11-1.35_FC3, or ....

2005-07-17 Thread Joe Henley
Hi, I did have MythTV working pretty well. Then I did a big update to ivtv 0.3.6w, to FC3 version 2.6.11-1.35_FC3, to lirc 0.7.1-46, to mplayer 1.0-45. I'm running MythTV 0.18.1. After a couple of problems I could noodle thru myself, I'm stumped on one. When I watch live TV, it

Re: [ivtv-devel] Fw: [UNKNOWN CARD] please help PVR-150 only getting bw video

2005-07-17 Thread Mark Knecht
On 7/17/05, Rudy Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a PVR-150MCE, and I've tried both 0.2 and 0.3 drivers, but all I ever get is bw video. I'm using the S-Video input. SNIP I'm missing output from the tuner module. which tuner module are you using? The kernel one or the ivtv one?

Re: [ivtv-devel] ivtv 0.3.6w, or FC3 ver 2.6.11-1.35_FC3, or ....

2005-07-17 Thread Tim Fenn
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 05:10:33PM -0500, Joe Henley wrote: I did have MythTV working pretty well. Then I did a big update to ivtv 0.3.6w, to FC3 version 2.6.11-1.35_FC3, to lirc 0.7.1-46, to mplayer 1.0-45. I'm running MythTV 0.18.1. After a couple of problems I could noodle thru

Re: [ivtv-devel] Video image chopped tiled strangely

2005-07-17 Thread Daniel Segel
Ian Armstrong wrote: If this is using yuv for playback, then there's a patch required to correct a field alignment error with NTSC. You can find it here http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/ivtv/devel/22148?#22148 Thanks, that took care of it. Daniel

Re: [ivtv-devel] Fw: [UNKNOWN CARD] please help PVR-150 only getting bw video

2005-07-17 Thread Rudy Zijlstra
Mark Knecht wrote: On 7/17/05, Rudy Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a PVR-150MCE, and I've tried both 0.2 and 0.3 drivers, but all I ever get is bw video. I'm using the S-Video input. SNIP I'm missing output from the tuner module. which tuner module are you using? The

Re: [ivtv-devel] quality difference seen between PVR-150 and PVR-350 in same box

2005-07-17 Thread Bryan Mayland
Nick Rosier wrote: My 350 seems louder than my 150's; do you have the same problem? I remember some changes being made as some where experiencing overdriven sound on the 150. Side effect seems to have been that in my case (and probably yours) where this was not the case, the volume of the 150

Re: [ivtv-devel] quality difference seen between PVR-150 and PVR-350 in same box

2005-07-17 Thread Bryan Mayland
Bryan Mayland wrote: This is true of a PVR-250 / 150 combo here too. My 250 is louder than my 150 on the same source. I actually fired up this machine to start playing around with it. I wrote the volume controls for the 150/500 under the assumption that the volume should scale from

Re: [ivtv-devel] quality difference seen between PVR-150 and PVR-350 in same box

2005-07-17 Thread Jim Reith
Bryan Mayland wrote: This is true of a PVR-250 / 150 combo here too. My 250 is louder than my 150 on the same source. I actually fired up this machine to start playing around with it. I wrote the volume controls for the 150/500 under the assumption that the volume should scale from -96dB

[ivtv-devel] Trouble with PVR-500

2005-07-17 Thread James Sheridan
I've been trying to get a PVR-500MCE working on my dual Xeon machine and I'm having real problems. I'm replacing a PVR-250 which seemed to work fine but I need/want the dual tuners. This is all on a FC3 system running 2.6.12 SMP. I have built the most recent ivtv (0.3.6z), pulled the drivers

Re: [ivtv-devel] quality difference seen between PVR-150 and PVR-350 in same box

2005-07-17 Thread Bryan Mayland
Bryan Mayland wrote: Bryan Mayland wrote: This is true of a PVR-250 / 150 combo here too. My 250 is louder than my 150 on the same source. I actually fired up this machine to start playing around with it. I wrote the volume controls for the 150/500 under the assumption that the volume

Re: [ivtv-devel] ivtv 0.3.6w, or FC3 ver 2.6.11-1.35_FC3, or ....

2005-07-17 Thread Joe Henley
Tim, You da bomb! You hit the problem dead on. Thanks for the help. Joe Tim Fenn wrote: On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 05:10:33PM -0500, Joe Henley wrote: I did have MythTV working pretty well. Then I did a big update to ivtv 0.3.6w, to FC3 version 2.6.11-1.35_FC3, to lirc 0.7.1-46, to

Re: [ivtv-devel] quality difference seen between PVR-150 and PVR-350 in same box

2005-07-17 Thread William Powers
Bryan Mayland wrote: Nevermind, I found a datasheet that lists it as going from +12dB to -114dB in 1/8th dB steps s at 90% a PVR-250/350 is just about at +0dB, which does support our claims. I'm going to make a patch up to tweak the cx25840 to be more like the msp3400. Bryan, While

Re: [ivtv-devel] quality difference seen between PVR-150 and PVR-350 in same box

2005-07-17 Thread Bryan Mayland
William Powers wrote: While you're thinking about it, any idea what might cause recordings with clipped audio at low volume from a cx25840? After the previous patch to add the cx25840 volume control was added, the volume of recordings on my PVR-500 was cut way down (ie., no longer