On Friday 03 November 2006 16:28, John Fielder wrote:
hi,

if it didnt load the firmware, you placed it in the wrong directory.
 BEWARE: the ivtv site is wrong most of the time on where you have to put the 
firmware.  i use suse 10.1, and they give the wrong directory for that. 



> I got the ivtv software installed and when I try to run cat > /dev/video0 >
> test.mpg the file won't play, so I ran the dmesg command to get this info.
>
>  ivtv:  ==================== START INIT IVTV ====================
>  ivtv:  version 0.8.0 (tagged release) loading
>  ivtv:  Linux version: 2.6.18.1 SMP mod_unload gcc-3.4
>  ivtv:  In case of problems please include the debug info between
>  ivtv:  the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines, along with
>  ivtv:  any module options, when mailing the ivtv-users mailinglist.
>  ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150 card (cx23416 based)
>  ivtv0: unable to open firmware v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw
>  ivtv0: did you put the firmware in the hotplug firmware directory?
>  ivtv0 warning: failed loading encoder firmware
>  ivtv0 warning: Error loading firmware -3!
>  ivtv0: Error -3 initializing firmware.
>  ivtv0: Error -12 on initialization
>  ivtv: probe of 0000:06:02.0 failed with error -12
>  ivtv:  ====================  END INIT IVTV  ====================
>
>  Why would my firmware not be loading, and how do I correct this problem?  
> Also my input is going to be svideo instead of the standard input, I didn't
> see an option in v4l2-ctl to select the input correctly.
>
>  Thanks,
>
>  John
>
>
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