Responses inline. On Tuesday 17 January 2006 10:50, Joe Giles wrote: > Hello List, > > I am confused. I got my WinTV-PVR-250 and it works great in Windows, > however, Windows is not my preferred desktop. > > So, I went on a quest to install it under my Linux distro, Arch. Well, > getting > the ivtv driver and firmware was not all that hard to do following the > instructions on the Wiki. > > Now that I have the drivers all setup I can do an mplayer /dev/video0 > and change channels with ivtv-tune, however, I am not able to get any of the > common TV viewing apps to work; like tvtime, kdetv, xawtv or anything. > They > all complain about the output of /dev/video0 or other issues. > > KdeTV says: > kdetv: WARNING: ... failed. kdetv likely does not to work with your > device > and/or your current filter config. > Terminated > > Tvtime says: > ivtv:invalid argument > > Xawtv gives me: > X Error of failed request: XF86DGANoDirectVideoMode > Major opcode of failed request: 138 (XFree86-DGA) > Minor opcode of failed request: 1 (XF86DGAGetVideoLL) > Serial number of failed request: 67 > Current serial number in output stream: 67
These applications only work with 'dumb' framegrabber cards (i.e., bttv type cards). They are not intended to work with cards (like the PVR-250) that output MPEG video. MythTV is the only application that I'm aware of (maybe Freevo?) that can handle *both* the tuning & viewing of the output of these cards. As you've found out, you can use other apps like MPlayer which are capable of playing the content straight from /dev/videoX, but you need to use another application (ivtv-tune.pl) to change the channel, AFAIK. > I am using Xorg 7.0 and not Xfree86. Also, I am using the nVidia > driver and > now DRI. This may be a problem with Xawtv and I will query their web > site. Should be fine, I guess. > I got MythTV to work, but I can't change any channels and, quite > frankly, I > like to watch TV in a window so I can do other work. You can set mythfrontend to use a windowed mode instead of full screen. If you're having problems getting MythTV configured properly (i.e., can't change channels), try the mythtv-users list. HTH, JAC _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
