I have a PVR-350 and have been using ivtv-0.3.6e which works fairly well (a few issues, but nothing serious).
I want to try newer software and the results weren't good. I tried ivtv-0.3.6s and the result was that watching live TV gave me a black screen. The /var/log/messages text follows: Jul 1 08:30:14 herman mythx: _cdim: --- not moved 0x0815da98 'mythfrontend' Jul 1 08:30:14 herman kernel: saa7115: decoder set picture bright=127 contrast=63 saturation=63 hue=0 Jul 1 08:30:14 herman last message repeated 3 times Jul 1 08:30:14 herman kernel: saa7115: decoder set size Jul 1 08:30:14 herman kernel: ivtv: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG stream: 128 x 32768 buffers (4096KB total) Jul 1 08:30:14 herman kernel: ivtv: Setup VBI API header 0x0000bd0d pkts 1 buffs 4 ln 24 sz 1456 Jul 1 08:30:14 herman kernel: ivtv: Setup VBI start 0x002fea04 frames 4 fpi 1 lines 0x000000f1 Jul 1 08:30:15 herman kernel: saa7115: decoder disable output Jul 1 08:30:15 herman kernel: saa7115: decoder enable output Jul 1 08:30:16 herman kernel: ivtv: Allocate DMA decoder MPEG stream: 16 x 65536 buffers (1024KB total) Jul 1 08:30:16 herman kernel: mythfrontend: page allocation failure. order:4, mode:0xd0 Jul 1 08:30:16 herman kernel: [work_resched+13/22] dump_stack+0x1e/0x20 Jul 1 08:30:16 herman kernel: [page_cache_readahead+3/544] __alloc_pages+0x2d3/0x300 Jul 1 08:30:16 herman kernel: [page_cache_readahead+78/544] __get_free_pages+0x1e/0x40 Jul 1 08:30:16 herman kernel: [pageout+80/256] kmem_getpages+0x20/0xb0 Jul 1 08:30:16 herman kernel: [shrink_zone+160/208] cache_grow+0xb0/0x190 Jul 1 08:30:16 herman kernel: [balance_pgdat+124/640] cache_alloc_refill+0x1dc/0x240 Jul 1 08:30:16 herman kernel: [install_page+257/448] __kmalloc+0x91/0xb0 Jul 1 08:30:16 herman kernel: [pg0+240352877/1069604864] ivtv_init_buffer+0x3d/0x170 [ivtv] Jul 1 08:30:16 herman kernel: [pg0+240353234/1069604864] ivtv_init_queue_nolock+0x32/0x90 [ivtv] Jul 1 08:30:16 herman kernel: [pg0+240353407/1069604864] ivtv_init_queues_nolock+0x4f/0x80 [ivtv] Jul 1 08:30:16 herman kernel: [pg0+240360256/1069604864] ivtv_stream_alloc+0x140/0x230 [ivtv] Jul 1 08:30:16 herman kernel: [pg0+240371555/1069604864] ivtv_claim_stream+0x103/0x260 [ivtv] Jul 1 08:30:16 herman kernel: [pg0+240379404/1069604864] ivtv_v4l2_write+0x9c/0x180 [ivtv] Jul 1 08:30:16 herman kernel: [bio_init+46/112] vfs_write+0xbe/0x140 Jul 1 08:30:16 herman kernel: [bio_alloc+267/480] sys_write+0x4b/0x80 Jul 1 08:30:16 herman kernel: [sys_rt_sigsuspend+185/192] sysenter_past_esp+0x52/0x71 Jul 1 08:30:16 herman kernel: ivtv: No memory on buffer alloc! Jul 1 08:30:16 herman kernel: ivtv: Buffer alloc failed! Jul 1 08:30:16 herman kernel: ivtv: Couldn't allocate buffers for decoder MPEG stream Jul 1 08:30:18 herman ntpd[4179]: synchronized to LOCAL(0), stratum=10 Jul 1 08:30:18 herman ntpd[4179]: kernel time sync disabled 0041 I also tried ivtv-0.3.6v which caused my machine to completely lock. -- Regards, Bob Wiegand ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list ivtv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel
