I purchased this capture card: AVerMedia DVD EZMaker PCI Deluxe.

It has the following MPEG2 encoder: Conexant CX23416-22, and no tuner, it is only for capturing analog video.

I am running Fedora Core 5 in an AMD Athlon PC.

I thought I needed ivtv drivers so I installed them with yum. It asked me also to upgrade my kernel, so I'm running now this kernel version: 2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.

Those are the packages installed:

ivtv-firmware-20070217-13.at
ivtv-0.10.1-126.fc5.at
perl-Video-ivtv-0.13-8.fc5.at
ivtv-kmdl-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5-0.10.1-126.fc5.at


plus perl-Video-Frequencies and the forementioned new kernel.

When I restart the system, I see those messages as if the driver was loaded and the card somewhat detected:

ivtv:  ==================== START INIT IVTV ====================
ivtv:  version 0.10.1 (tagged release) loading
ivtv:  Linux version: 2.6.18-1.2257.fc5 mod_unload 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-4.1
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: Unknown card: vendor/device: 4444/0016
ivtv0:               subsystem vendor/device: 1461/c03f
ivtv0:               cx23416 based
ivtv0: Defaulting to Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150 card
ivtv0: Please mail the vendor/device and subsystem vendor/device IDs and what kind of
ivtv0: card you have to the ivtv-devel mailinglist (www.ivtvdriver.org)
ivtv0: Prefix your subject line with [UNKNOWN CARD].
ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (376836 bytes)
ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02060039
cx25840 1-0044: cx25843-23 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
ivtv0: Invalid EEPROM
ivtv0: Registered device video0 for encoder MPEG (4 MB)
ivtv0: Registered device video32 for encoder YUV (2 MB)
ivtv0: Registered device vbi0 for encoder VBI (1 MB)
ivtv0: Registered device video24 for encoder PCM audio (1 MB)
ivtv0: Registered device radio0 for encoder radio
ivtv0: i2c hardware 0x00000020 (wm8775) not found for command 0x4008646d!
ivtv0: Initialized Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150, card #0
ivtv:  ====================  END INIT IVTV  ====================

First of all, I see the driver when starting does not recognize the card and it defaults to the Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150 card.

In fact, when I play the VCR and try to capture it with 'cat /dev/video0 /tmp/prueba.mpg', I get a PS MPEG2 file, but which is all black.

I could not assert in the documentation from ivtv that my card is actually supported, but I'm wondering if I could pretend I'm using one of the supported cards and make it work. If so, how to set the right card?

Another question: I see as if the module was embedded in the kernel, it is not loaded as a kernel module (no reference to it on the modprobe.conf file), and I wonder if this is the best way to do it.

Anyway, thanks for your support.

PEREVERA

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