Mr. Moodyjunk,
I think your problems stem from the howto you have selected to
follow. The order is way out of whack for setting up a PVR-350's TV-
out and all this stuff about mplayer is really not relevant when the
machine is being used for X-windows SOLELY via PVR-350 TV-out. Not to
mention it has outdated information about the ivtv driver
(specifically, that ivtv now supports mplayer -vo xv).
But let's get back to the basics. I'm going to write an outline on
what you need to do to get the ivtv driver and X via the TV-out up
and running, then hopefully you can pick up and go back through the
rest of the howto and get myth installed.
0) Install Xorg and KDE
- it usually comes installed by default on fedora
1) Install the ivtv firmware: (looks like you already did this)
- http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Firmware
2) Install the ivtv kernel modules: (looks like you already did this)
- your favorite binary repository (RPMs, portage, apt-get, or whatever)
- or http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Download and compile it
yourself (but note that you need your kernel's source, too)
- don't forget to `depmod -a`
3) Install the ivtv Xdriver (very important!)
- http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Download
- copy it to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/
4) modprobe ivtv
5) modprobe ivtv-fb
6) Check `dmesg` make sure there are no errors with the loading of
those modules, and `lsmod` to make sure they actually were loaded.
7) Set up your /etc/X11/xorg.conf
- remove the section "device" that corresponds to your normal video
card (if such a section exists)
- put in a section "device" for your 350, per link below:
- http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/XV_on_PVR-350
- change the line "Option" "ivtv" "/dev/fb2" to whatever your fb
device is
- you can see all your fb choices by executing `ls /dev/fb*`
- change the line "BusID "PCI:..." to your appropriate id
- you can find out your BusID by executing `X -scanpci` (no need to
convert hex/dec!)
8) execute `startx`or change init levels or whatever it is that
fedora needs to restart X (`killall -HUP X`)?
- you should get an X-windows console on your tv-out
- if not, you can figure out what went wrong by looking at /var/log/
Xorg.0.log
- be prepared to mess around with your xorg.conf file a lot, this
might take a few tries to get right.
9) Continue with the rest of the howto, pick it up at "Running X on
the PVR-350's TV-out - The final touch is to rebuild..."
- and make sure you do the whole section 14 - automatic startup.
Hope that helps.
- Rick
On Dec 20, 2006, at 4:02 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Sdkovacs wrote:
>>> DVR:~ # mplayer -vo x11 /tmp/test_capture.mpg
>>> MPlayer 1.0rc1-4.1.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
>>> CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor (Family: 6, Model: 6, Stepping: 2)
>>> CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 0
>>> Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
>>> Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0: No such file or directory
>>> Can't init input joystick
>>> mplayer: could not connect to socket
>>> mplayer: No such file or directory
>>> Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your
>>> remote control.
>>>
>>> Playing /tmp/test_capture.mpg.
>>> MPEG-PS file format detected.
>>> VIDEO: MPEG2 720x480 (aspect 2) 29.970 fps 8000.0 kbps
>>> (1000.0 kbyte/s)
>>> Xlib: extension "XFree86-VidModeExtension" missing on display ":
>>> 20.0".
>>>
>>
>> Mr. Moodyjunk,
>>
>> Are you running the mplayer command on the system console or are you
>> SSHed into your mythbox? Mplayer is not outputting to screen :0 which
>> leads me to believe you are not on the console.
>>
>> I noticed this from your post:
>>
>> Xlib: extension "XFree86-VidModeExtension" missing on display ":
>> 20.0".
>>
>>
>> So try the mplayer command from the physical display.
>>
>
>
> I am actually VNC'd (SSH under the covers I believe) into the box
> without any keyboard/mouse/display physically attached. I connected a
> physical display and indeed get video on the display via mplayer,
> proving that the video is being captured correctly. Thanks for that
> pointer.
>
> However, my goal is to view recordings via MythTV on a television
> using PVR-350 TV Out. I get sound, but not picture on the TV when
> issuing:
> ivtvfbctl /dev/fb1 --globalalpha=off --localalpha=on
> (fails with "IVTVFB_IOCTL_GET_STATE failed" as above)
> dd if=/dev/video0 of=/dev/video16 bs=64k
> I suspect the problem is the ivtvfbctl failure, but the ivtvfbctl help
> doesn't describe what the globalalpha and localalpha parms are trying
> to do, nor what the IVTVFB_IOCTL_GET_STATE failure means.
>
> Also, the instructions I'm following say to issue
> /usr/lib/ivtv/ptune-ui.pl, but that file is not found. I don't know
> if the two problems are related.
>
>
>
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