That is awesome, thanks for giving an update. Dan
On 4/16/05, William Powers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A success report for an NTSC PVR-500 rev D492. Ordered from mwave a > week ago, installed today. I had blocked out most of the weekend for > the install, but I (apparently) I got lucky and it only took a couple of > hours. This on FC3, with ivtv verson 0.3.2q, and with modeprobe.conf > configured as follows: > > alias char-major-81 videodev > alias char-major-81-0 ivtv > alias char-major-81-1 ivtv > alias char-major-81-2 ivtv > alias char-major-81-3 ivtv > > alias tuner tuner-ivtv > alias msp3400 msp3400-itvt > alias tveeprom tveeprom-ivtv > > options saa7127 i2c_enable = -1,-1,-1,-1 > options cx25840 i2c_enable=1,1,1,1 no_black_magic=1 > options ivtv ivtv_debug=1 tuner=2,2,57,57 > > Note that I had two working PVR-250's in the box before and they are > still working after the install (so far, knock on wood, fingers > crossed). As originally installed, I had not included the "alias tuner > tuner-ivtv" line and that led to failures to initialize the PVR-500 > tuners. Also, I originally had a line "options wm8775 mixer=2" line in > modprobe.conf, but that resulted in no sound - deleting that line > restored sound. > > Other messages on this list led me to think that commenging out the > 'VSCALE' line in the file cx25840-driver.c might allow horizontal > scaling to work, but it did not. I also tried 0.3.2y, which has the > VSCALE line pre-commented out and that did not work either. In fact, > with 0.3.2y, not only did horizontal scaling not work, but there were > many nasty, multicolored vertical lines across the picture recorded from > either/both halves of the PVR-500 (the PVR-250's were ok). Reverting to > 0.3.2q eliminated the PVR-500 vertical lines and in addition, without > scaling, I'll be recording everything at 720x480 for the time being. > > Setup was a little peculiar, trying to figure out whether the video2 > device was associatged with the tuner0 input or the tuner1 input, and > the same question with the video3 device. Ended up with tuner0 on > video2 and tuner1 on video3. > > At this point, the only things I would wish for are: > > 1) Stability (please keep working! 0.3.2q has been very stable on my > PVR-250's but only time will tell how it does with the PVR-500) > > 2) Horizontal scaling, as I prefer to do routine recordings at > 352x480x3000 kbps. > > Assuming I haven't spoken too soon and everything keeps working, I would > be more than happy to cross-check my setup against anyone who is having > problems getting their PVR-500 to work. > > Bill > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click > _______________________________________________ > ivtv-devel mailing list > ivtv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel > ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&op=click _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list ivtv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel
