Joseph A. Caputo wrote: > 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 > > Yep I ran into all these issues, and gave up on the piece of bloat (perhaps calling it bloat is unfair, I simply don't need all the functionality) that MythTV is (I never got the channel editor to work for the Dutch xmltv anyway, it just kept segfaulting). Now I just watch with mplayer /dev/video0 and tune with a bunch of aliases. ;)
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