Hi
I want to inform about my experience with the ivtv 0.6.2 release.
I use Fedora Core 5 (64 bit version) which I have setup according to Jarod Wilsons howto. I use the rpm package from Axel Thim. My capture card is a one year old PVR-350 (PAL version). I use this machine as an mythtbackend and I use xbmcmythtv on my xbox as a mythfrontend.
For one month since I upgraded the ivtv driver from ivtv 0.6.1 to 0.6.2 on my Mythtv backend pc using yum install ivtv. Everything was working ok for me before I do this. After the upgrade the playing of schedule recordings was working, but I could not change channels in Live TV in mythfrontend or in xbmcmyth. Everything was freezing and I must shutdown the mythtbackend pc. When this happens the mythfrontend logs "select timeout - ivtv driver has stopped responding" . The ivtv dmesg don't have any errors in it. Every module loads ok before this happens.
I know this is a problem with the ivtv 0.6.2 driver because other people have this problem as I can read from ivtv mailinglists.
http://ivtvdriver.org/pipermail/ivtv-users/2006-May/002642.html . I have tried the newest 0.6.2 cvs (010606), ivtv 0.7 rpm package, using the correct firmware (
http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Firmware), tried to upgrade to the mythtv 0.19.1 (bugfix release) without luck.
And I have changed the tuner input from tuner 0 to tuner 1 in mythtv-setup. From ivtv 0.6.2 readme.txt
"NOTE 3: The names of the inputs have changed to correspond with the names as are used by the video4linux subsystem. This means that MythTV users haveto setup their inputs again. In particular 'Tuner 0' is now 'Tuner 1'."
And I have tried reinstalling my mythbackend without any luck. And I get the same problem again because yum install the ivtv 0.6.2 version because this is the stable version on Axel Thimm rpm site
http://atrpms.net/dist/fc5/ivtv/
My suggestion for people who have this problem is to downgrade to ivtv 0.6.1. This fixed all my problems with LiveTV channel change freeze. I am a newbee with Linux so I don't know if you can downgrade ivtv package with yum or smart to ivtv
0.6.1, but I compile the ivtv driver on my own. Follow the ivtv howto http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Howto
this was not so difficult. You must have kernel-devel package for your kernel installed before you do this (uname -a) (yum install kernel-devel-$KVER). I suggest you first remove ivtv 0.6.2 with "yum remove ivtv" . After you have compiled and installed the ivtv driver you must unload the ivtv module with "/sbin/rmmod ivtv", do a dependency check with "/sbin/depmod -a" and load the ivtv modules again with "/sbin/modprobe ivtv". After that you must check dmesg with "dmesg | grep ivtv". After my ivtv
0.6.1 compile installation the ivtv dmesg informs me about it can not find v4l-cx2341x-init.mpg. This file should by in the firmware hotplug directory so I copied this file from the ivtv-0.6.1 source directory to /lib/firmware (Fedora hotplug directory).
I going to post this mail to mythtv-users maillist and to
atrpms-users . I hope this ivtv issue could be resolved because it has been a pain to find a solution for my Live TV channel channel problems
Hope this helps for someone...
Harald
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