Are you using a boot image built with mkinitrd? If so then then ivtv_init_mpeg.bin probably isn't in it. Failing to load this file is why you get the YUV message at the end of dmesg.
John > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ivtv-devel- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel > Sent: 02 November 2005 18:32 > To: Discussion list for development of the IVTV driver > Subject: RE: [ivtv-devel] failed to read mpeg decoder initialisation file > > Hi John. Thank you so much for replying. > > > The file /lib/modules/ivtv_init_mpeg.bin is used to > > initialise the decoder > > so that xv playback works. It does not have any > > effect on decoding. Anyway > > does that file exist? > > Yes, it does: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -l /lib/modules/ > total 688 > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 25 21:58 > 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 > drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Nov 2 10:24 > 2.6.13-1.1532_FC4 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 262144 Oct 31 2004 > ivtv-fw-dec.bin > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 262144 Oct 31 2004 > ivtv-fw-enc.bin > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 155648 Oct 20 23:13 > ivtv_init_mpeg.bin > > > Then onto the decoding problem. You say it does not > > work but you don't say > > what happens or what you see. If this is from Mythtv > > is it set to use the > > 350 decoder for playback or is it using Xv? > > I feel like a bit of an idiot. I spent 3 days > installing and uninstalling drivers because I had > convinced myself that the error below was causing > problems. Somewhere along the way, I must have > disabled the 350 out options in MythTV. I reinstalled > everything and re-enabled TV out on the 350 on Myth > and now it shows video. Before it gave a purple > screen. > > Now I just have to figure out why recorded programs > have sound while live TV does not. Also, lirc is not > creating the /dev/lirc device (only /dev/lircd), but > these are not questions for this list, I don't think. > > However, I do get these errors on bootup at the very > end of /var/log/messages. They may be of interest to > you all: > > ivtv0: Tried to open YUV output device but need to > send data to mpeg decoder before it can be used > > > *Personal Feedback* > I do want to report that picture quality is many times > improved over the version of ivtv I was previously > using (don't know which, probably about a year old). > Before I had bad ghosting on my 350 recordings (the > 250 was fine). Now with the 0.4 drivers there is > almost no ghosting on either and the image is much > sharper. Also, the xdriver is much, much more > responsive. Using KDE on my TV through the 350 is > almost as nice and responsive as through my normal > graphics card. Excellent work! As far as useability, > these drivers have really come a long way. > > Thanks again for bearing with me. _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel
