I've had problems with MythTv period. with my HVR-1600, and opted for using VLC media player. I'm running Ubuntu Linux(7.10 Amd64).
This maybe a crazy question but have you tried just doing a command like this in a terminal before performing the cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg: ivtv-tune -c 6 That way you'll see whether you've tuned it to channel 6? --Richard. On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 13:50 -0700, Simon Bouchard wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having a problem getting my HVR-1600 to work using the CX18 > drivers. I've compiled the drivers without any problems, but if I try > to use the card using cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg, it results in a > video that is all black with a bit of static. Using MythTV, I get a > weird "Not ivtv driver" message, and I still get the black screen with > static. The firmware seems to be loaded correctly, as seen in the > following lines from dmesg. > > Does anyone have an idea on what the problem could be? > > thanks in advance, > Simon > > [ 66.895028] cx18: Start initialization, version 0.1.0 > [ 66.895102] cx18-0: Initializing card #0 > [ 66.895105] cx18-0: Autodetected Hauppauge card > [ 66.895298] cx18-0: cx23418 revision 01010000 (B) > [ 67.058165] cx18-0: Autodetected Hauppauge HVR-1600 > [ 67.548988] tuner 1-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (cx18 i2c driver #0-1) > [ 67.549028] cs5345 0-004c: chip found @ 0x98 (cx18 i2c driver #0-0) > [ 67.551489] cx18-0: Disabled encoder IDX device > [ 67.551537] cx18-0: Registered device video0 for encoder MPEG (2 > MB) > [ 67.551570] cx18-0: Registered device video16 for TS (1 MB) > [ 67.551573] cx18_reg_dev() Calling DVB Register > [ 67.551575] cx18_dvb_register() > [ 67.551577] DVB: registering new adapter (cx18) > [ 67.818078] cx18_dvb_register() DVB Frontend Registered > [ 67.818116] cx18-0: Registered device video32 for encoder YUV (2 > MB) > [ 67.818151] cx18-0: Registered device vbi0 for encoder VBI (1 MB) > [ 67.818189] cx18-0: Registered device video24 for encoder PCM audio > (1 MB) > [ 67.819390] cx18-0: Initialized card #0: Hauppauge HVR-1600 > [ 67.819406] cx18: End initialization > [ 90.434003] cx18-0: loaded v4l-cx23418-apu.fw firmware V00120000 > (141200 bytes) > [ 90.624827] cx18-0: loaded v4l-cx23418-cpu.fw firmware (174716 > bytes) > [ 90.630931] cx18-0: debug: 1 MiniMe Encoder Firmware 0.0.71.0 > (Release 2006/12/29) > [ 90.630936] cx18-0: FW version: 0.0.71.0 (Release 2006/12/29) > [ 90.833210] cx18-0: Took ~20 mS for FW to start > [ 91.071739] cx18-0: loaded v4l-cx23418-dig.fw firmware (16382 > bytes) > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr! > _______________________________________________ > ivtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
