On 10/15/07, Christian Seiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Hi,
> I installed the necessary firmware (there's a Gentoo package for that) > and Udev automatically loads the ivtv driver during boot, which seems to > work fine. You should emerge the ivtv package as well. > The video devices are created without any problem, but every > attempt in capturing or viewing TV fails. I tried to use the ptune-ui.pl > script and set a channel while using cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg to > capture the video but the resulting file contains only static noise. ptune-ui.pl is most likely not working anymore due to api changes (correct me if I am wrong). You should be using ivtv-tune from the ivtv package in portage. > tried kdetv (which sees the card and lets me choose the same channels as > ptune-ui.pl) and that only displays static noise for every channel. I > tried to use xawtv and that only displays a black window. If the application does not know how to deal with mpeg streams it will not work. Xawtv does not understand mpeg streams so it show you a black screen. Greets Sander > Here the output of uname -a: > > Linux rhuidean 2.6.22-gentoo-r8 #3 Thu Oct 11 21:03:21 CEST 2007 i686 > AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux > > Here the relevant dmesg output: > > ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV ==================== > ivtv: version 1.0.0 (2.6.22-gentoo-r8 mod_unload K7 ) loading > ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge card (cx23416 based) > ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:07.0[A] -> Link [APC1] -> GSI 16 (level, > high) -> IRQ 19 > ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (376836 bytes) > ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02060039 > tveeprom 2-0050: Hauppauge model 26034, rev C197, serial# 8087188 > tveeprom 2-0050: tuner model is TCL 2002MB_3H (idx 97, type 55) > tveeprom 2-0050: TV standards PAL(B/G) PAL(D/D1/K) (eeprom 0x44) > tveeprom 2-0050: audio processor is CX25842 (idx 36) > tveeprom 2-0050: decoder processor is CX25842 (idx 29) > tveeprom 2-0050: has no radio, has IR receiver, has IR transmitter > ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150 > ivtv0: reopen i2c bus for IR-blaster support > tuner 2-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0) > cx25840 2-0044: cx25842-23 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #0) > cx25840 2-0044: loaded v4l-cx25840.fw firmware (16382 bytes) > wm8775 2-001b: chip found @ 0x36 (ivtv i2c driver #0) > tuner 2-0061: type set to 55 (TCL 2002MB) > 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: Initialized Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150, card #0 > ivtv: ==================== END INIT IVTV ==================== > > Here the output of lspci -v -s 01:07.0: > > 01:07.0 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 19 > Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M] > Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 > > I already use that card regularily from within Windows 2000 where it > works (well, except the IR remote control, which I haven't tried with > Linux but somehow doesn't work with Windows), so it's probably not a > hardware problem. > > As an additional information: I live in Germany and want to use the card > to watch the analog cable program I receive here (which works using > Windows). I selected »pal-europe-west« for "frequency table", tried > PAL-BGH, PAL-M, PAL-I and PAL-DK as standards and selected "tuner 1" as > the input source (in ptune-ui.pl). > > Oh, and while capturing or running kdetv, no additional kernel messages > are generated. > > As far as I can see, the driver seems to recognize the card and load the > firmware. And reading /dev/video0 I get an MPEG stream so the decoder > itself seems to work. My guess is that the tuner somehow doesn't set the > correct channel - but why? Any ideas? _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
