Unfortunately I've been unable to get any input (besides static) from the tuner on my PVR-500 MCE D492 card. I've tried two different machines (both VIA chipsets though), multiple versions of ivtv (including the latest as of today), and different kernel versions.
Composite input works fine though.
I'm going to try yet another machine this weekend hopefully, and see if
that makes any difference.
I have not experienced any lockups though, however I've only captured at
most 5minutes of video "static" at a time.
On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 13:04 -0500, James A. Pattie wrote:
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> >>>Chris Kennedy wrote:
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> >>>
> >>>>>This happens on one motherboard of mine, not on another, others have
> >>>>>reported similar results, seems these cards don't like every motherboard,
> >>>>>seem like quite a complex device so just figures they would be difficult
> >>>>>(I really wish I could use mine in my pvr, double my inputs, kinda
> >>>>>depressing).
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>After updating to 0.3.4c and downgrading the encoding firmware to the
> >>>recommended version, it hasn't locked up on me, but I haven't been able to
> >>>get
> >>>any tv signal now, regardless of the video{0,1} device or the Tuner 0/1 I
> >>>try to
> >>>play with. :(
> >
> >
> > I apparently spoke too soon. It took it longer, like it was running out of
> > memory or something, but I got it to reboot on me twice. Once while doing
> > composite inputs (which do work ok) and the other while trying to mess with
> > the
> > tuner input. I'm putting my PVR-250 rev2 card back in to see what happens
> > (it
> > works perfectly out of the box) and will try in my nforce2 based system
> > after I
> > get some sleep.
>
>
> Update: I put the PVR-500MCE into my nfroce2 athlon system and it hasn't
> locked
> up on me, but I get nothing from the tuner. :(
>
> I've updated to 0.3.4i.
>
> I've played around with using the in-kernel tuner.ko module, since I thought I
> had read a thread somewhere that said that 2.6.10-rc2 had the necessary tuner
> changes for the idx=57, etc., but 2.6.10 and 2.6.11.8 both act like they don't
> know that tuner, so I rolled back to the ivtv tuner module.
>
> I've noticed that when I do an mplayer /dev/video0 or /dev/video1 and have
> "tuned" a channel via ptune.pl or record-v4l2.pl, only ivtv shows a usage
> count
> via lsmod. tuner, cx25840 and wm8775 all have a usage of 0. Is this normal
> or
> is this the root of the issue with tuning not working?
>
> My dmesg log entries claim that the tuner was set and properly set to NTSC,
> etc.
>
> I've only gotten tuner input once, and that was on the first machine which
> exhibits the sudden reboot. To be honest, I don't remember what I did that
> made
> the tuner work then and not now.
>
> >>>>
> >>>>>Question for other pvr-500 owners: Do you only have 1 antenna connector
> >>>>>for tv
> >>>>>and does the card internally multiplex it? My second connector doesn't
> >>>>>have an
> >>>>>antenna jack on it, just svideo and composite inputs.
> >>>>>
>
> I'd still like an answer/feedback to this question from other pvr-500 owners.
>
>
> Has anyone gotten the pvr-500 rev D492 working consistently and if so, what
> kernel, ivtv driver and firmware versions were you using?
>
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