Pascal Schirrmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using a PVR-150 card as input on my freevobox, and encounter a
> trouble when shifting from SECAM to PAL.
> Until now, it didn't bother me so much, but now that the ivtv_xine
> plugin starts to deal with the TV_VIDEO_GROUP, I really would like to
> use that functionality.
>
> So here is the trouble :
>
> I basically receive via the cable operator 23 tv channels. 21 are in
> SECAM, and 2 in PAL. I also receive via my ADSL box a bunch of TV
> programs, all in PAL. These programs come in via the composite input of
> the PVR-150 card.
> The best results I have so far : Setting the default standard as secam,
> I can receive the 21 SECAM channels. If I want to watch one of the ADSL
> program, I stop freevo (ouch), send the following command :
> v4l2-ctl --set-standard=pal --set-input=2
> then
> xine --stdctl pwr:///home2/media/tmp/xine-buf-
>
> So, everything is ok (At least, until the standard change is
> incorporated in ivtv_xine_tv.py)
> If I try to watch one of the pal antenna program, hoverer, I'm not able
> to do something relevant.
> For instance, I start via freevo to watch a PAL program. Since Freevo
> doesn't select pal, I can watch my program, but in a very nice kind of
> purple...
> I then stop freevo, do my v4l2-ctl --set-standard=pal and then launch
> xine, I have the sound (not good) but only a snow storm as picture.
>
> Do you have any idea of the reason ? I suspect that in this case, I have
> something else to do to setup the tuner, but didn't find anything relevant.
> BTW, my system is running Mandriva 2008, with a 2.6.22-9 kernel, the
> embedded drivers for the PVR card and the 1.0.3 set of ivtv tools.
Try this patch:
Index: src/tv/channels.py
===================================================================
--- src/tv/channels.py (revision 10012)
+++ src/tv/channels.py (working copy)
@@ -190,6 +190,7 @@
# Lets set the freq ourselves using the V4L device.
try:
vd = tv.v4l2.Videodev(vg.vdev)
+ vd.setfreq(vg.input_num)
try:
vd.setfreq(freq)
except:
Then you will need a VideoGroup for each tuner input.
If it works and has no unwanted side effects then I can commit it
Duncan
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