I see, thanks for letting me know.

Will whatever you are releasing this weekend fix the MythTV problem?

Thanks!
George


Hans Verkuil wrote:
> That's what you get for using bleeding edge code: the G/S_CODEC ioctls 
> are removed and replaced by a new mpeg encoder API which is now part of 
> the v4l2 API standard. I have yet to prepare patches for MythTV to 
> replace its use of the ivtv private controls by these new controls.
> 
> I'll release a ivtv-0.7.0 this weekend for 2.6.17 kernels.
> 
>       Hans
> 
> On Thursday 29 June 2006 04:47, George Nychis wrote:
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> I'm having problems starting mythtv and live tv, i'm not sure if this
>> is an IVTV problem or a MythTV problem, whether it be a setup problem
>> or a bug I'm not sure.
>>
>> I have a 2.6.17-rc6 kernel and a WinTV-PVR 150 card, here is its
>> lspci output:
>> 03:05.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16
>> (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
>>         Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV PVR 150
>>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 20
>>         Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
>>         Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
>>
>> I am using the latest subversion entry of IVTV as of yesterday, and
>> MythTV-0.19_p10281 from Gentoo's portage.
>>
>> On my computer, I can successfully capture and playback video and
>> audio via: cat /dev/v4l/video0 > test.mpg
>>
>> However when I try to start mythtv and watch livetv, i see this:
>> 2006-06-28 03:15:43.017 RingBuf(/mnt/store/1027_20060628031541.mpg):
>> Invalid file (fd 15) when opening
>> '/mnt/store/1027_20060628031541.mpg'. 12 retries remaining.
>>
>> It retries the 12 times and then quits.  I check my backend log and i
>> see this:
>> Error getting codec params
>> IVTV_IOC_G_CODEC:: Invalid argument
>>
>> Note that I am *not* using NFS, the backend and frontend are on the
>> same machine.  Also note that while i can successfully
>> record/playback with cat /dev/v4l/video0 > test.mpg ... the file IS
>> successfully created in /mnt/store, and when it quits the file is
>> left there, and i *cannot* play this file back.
>>
>> I'd greatly appreciate any help / suggestions.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> George
>>
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