On Monday 05 February 2007 06:08, Duncan Webb wrote:
> Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
> > 1. i had a working freevo with a saa7134 card
> > 2. the card died and i got the hauppauge-350
> > 3. I've got the hauppauge working from the command line, tune to desired
> > channel, watch tv with mplayer, record tv
> > 4. when i try to watch tv with freevo i get a blank screen, a return to
> > the tv guide and it messes up the ivtv modules.
> > 5. Either rmmod ivtv; modprobe ivtv OR reboot and i can watch tv again
> > I've got a series of files on http://www.billiau.net/~liz/freevo
> > so I don't overload uninterested mailboxes
> > I think that i've got something left in local_conf.py from the old card
> > which is messing everything up and I'd be very happy for assistance with
> > this. there are the config files
> > a listing from freevo -trace when trying to watch a tv channel
> > and what mplayer reports on the command line from a working and a
> > not-working attempt.
> > 6. i know lirc isn't configured.
>
> You still using 1.5.4 looking at you local_conf.py
True. I'm in enough mess without trying to upgrade freevo too.
>
> The problem, or at least one problem is that the VIDEO_GROUPS is
> incorrect for an IVTV card.
>
> VIDEO_GROUPS = [
> VideoGroup(vdev = '/dev/video0',
> adev = '/dev/adsp',
> input_type = 'tuner',
> input_num = 4, #0 or 4 depends on driver version
> tuner_norm = CONF.tv,
> tuner_chanlist = CONF.chanlist,
> desc = 'PVR-350 Video Group',
> group_type = 'ivtv',
> recordable = True),
> ]
>
> the recordable setting is never used, you can get rid of the line.
Done
>
> When you upgrade to 1.6 or 1.7 the last line needs to be replaced with:
> #recordable = True),
> record_group = None),
> The default record_group is None, so you can get rid of the line, only
> useful when you have two tv cards.
>
> The input number depends on the version of the ivtv driver, if the
> driver is 0.8 and higher then the input number is 0 otherwise it is 4
> for a 250 and 350.
>
> v4l2-ctl --get-input
> Video input : 0 (Tuner 1)
>
> The latest 0.4.9 version is not very good, it would be better to upgrade
> the kernel to 2.6.18 or higher and use the 0.8.2 or 0.10.0rc1 version
I did that (last month) to 2.6.18
>
> The mplayer command line reports
> Failed to open /dev/rtc
> this is very bad for audio sync, you need to enable rtc in the kernel.
Quick check says 'N'. At least its modular and won't take all day to be ready
>
> If you have a remote it is not working.
Future challenge ;-)
>
> HTH
> Duncan
Thanks Duncan, will see what happens after work today.
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