Hi,
I'm having problems with getting a decent picture out of my Hauppauge
PVR-500. There's a lot of snow/noise on the picture and only a few
channels are 'recogniseable'.
My configuration is as follows:
-Abit NF-M2SV motherboard
-2 GB RAM
-AMD A64 X2 AM2 2100 processor
-Suse 10.3, kernel upgraded to 2.6.22.13-0.3-default (using regular
Yast package manager)
-Hauppauge PVR-500 with Samsung tuners
Here's a few observations:
-The card installed without problems ('out-of-the-box')
-If I do: ivtv-tune -teurope-west -c22 /dev/video0
I get: /dev/video0: 479.250 MHz
-And if I do: ivtv-tune -teurope-west -c22 /dev/video1
I also get: /dev/video0: 479.250 MHz
i.e. it's as if I only have one tuner, although 2 tuners seem to be
recognised by ivtv (see below).
-When I installed MythTV, I can only select: tuner1, not tuner0 as is
indicated in most how-to's / installation instructions for MythTV.
-The picture quality issues appear both in MythTV and in mplayer
/dev/video0, cat /dev/video1 > test.mpg etc.
-I've seen many entries on various webfora on this card and esp. on
difficulties with the Samsung tuners (so much for doing your research
before you buy...), but haven't found any tips there that have
improved my situation:
-I've switched off case and cpu fans to exclude those as a cause of
interference with the tuner.
-I've switched on/off my cable signal amplifier. (If I switch it off,
the situation deteriorates)
-I've tried the box on 2 different cable sockets in my house, all of
which give a good picture on a regular TV set.
-Initially I ran with the ivtv version that came with Suse 10.3
(0.10.xxx), later I removed the 'ivtv*' packages using Yast and
compiled version 1.0.3 from source (as this was the recommended
version for my kernel on the wiki). This made no difference to the
performance of the card. I've also upgraded the firmware from the
version that came with Suse 10.3 to the latest.
-I've switched inputs to the Composite input and sampled a bit of
footage from my camcorder, which resulted in an excellent picture. I
believe this proves that it's really the tuner and not the MPEG2
encoder or anything.
As you can see, I've tried many things and have run out of options. I
was hoping there's someone out there with a good idea for further
diagnostics or even (who knows) a solution.
Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Wessel
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ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV ====================
ivtv: version 1.0.0 (2.6.22.13-0.3-default SMP mod_unload 586 ) loading
ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge card (cx23416 based)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC2] enabled at IRQ 17
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:08.0[A] -> Link [APC2] -> GSI 17 (level,
low) -> IRQ 22
ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (376836 bytes)
ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02060039
ivtv i2c driver #0: Test OK
tveeprom 2-0050: Hauppauge model 23559, rev D596, serial# 8859459
tveeprom 2-0050: tuner model is Samsung TCPG 6121P30A (idx 96, type 73)
tveeprom 2-0050: TV standards PAL(B/G) PAL(I) SECAM(L/L') PAL(D/D1/K)
(eeprom 0x74)
tveeprom 2-0050: second tuner model is Philips TEA5768HL FM Radio (idx
101, type 62)
tveeprom 2-0050: audio processor is CX25843 (idx 37)
tveeprom 2-0050: decoder processor is CX25843 (idx 30)
tveeprom 2-0050: has radio, has no IR receiver, has no IR transmitter
ivtv0: Autodetected WinTV PVR 500 (unit #1)
tuner 2-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
tda9887 2-0043: tda988[5/6/7] found @ 0x43 (tuner)
tuner 2-0060: TEA5767 detected.
tuner 2-0060: chip found @ 0xc0 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
tuner 2-0060: type set to 62 (Philips TEA5767HN FM Radio)
tuner 2-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
cx25840 2-0044: cx25843-23 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 73 (Samsung TCPG 6121P30A)
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: Initialized WinTV PVR 500 (unit #1), card #0
ivtv: ====================== NEXT CARD ======================
ivtv1: Autodetected Hauppauge card (cx23416 based)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:09.0[A] -> Link [APC3] -> GSI 18 (level,
low) -> IRQ 20
ivtv1: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (376836 bytes)
ivtv1: Encoder revision: 0x02060039
ivtv i2c driver #1: Test OK
tuner 3-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (ivtv i2c driver #1)
tda9887 3-0043: tda988[5/6/7] found @ 0x43 (tuner)
tuner 3-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #1)
cx25840 3-0044: cx25843-23 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #1)
cx25840 3-0044: loaded v4l-cx25840.fw firmware (16382 bytes)
wm8775 3-001b: chip found @ 0x36 (ivtv i2c driver #1)
tveeprom 3-0050: Hauppauge model 23559, rev D596, serial# 8859459
tveeprom 3-0050: tuner model is Samsung TCPG 6121P30A (idx 96, type 73)
tveeprom 3-0050: TV standards PAL(B/G) PAL(I) SECAM(L/L') PAL(D/D1/K)
(eeprom 0x74)
tveeprom 3-0050: second tuner model is Philips TEA5768HL FM Radio (idx
101, type 62)
tveeprom 3-0050: audio processor is CX25843 (idx 37)
tveeprom 3-0050: decoder processor is CX25843 (idx 30)
tveeprom 3-0050: has radio, has no IR receiver, has no IR transmitter
ivtv1: Correcting tveeprom data: no radio present on second unit
ivtv1: Autodetected WinTV PVR 500 (unit #2)
tuner 3-0061: type set to 73 (Samsung TCPG 6121P30A)
ivtv1: Registered device video1 for encoder MPEG (4 MB)
ivtv1: Registered device video33 for encoder YUV (2 MB)
ivtv1: Registered device vbi1 for encoder VBI (1 MB)
ivtv1: Registered device video25 for encoder PCM audio (1 MB)
ivtv1: Initialized WinTV PVR 500 (unit #2), card #1
ivtv: ==================== END INIT IVTV ====================
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lspci -v yields:
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02:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16
(CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV PVR 500 (1st unit)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 128, IRQ 22
Memory at ec000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
02:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16
(CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV PVR 500 (2nd unit)
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 128, IRQ 20
Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
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