On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 23:55 +0100, Levente Novák wrote:
> Hi Andy,
> 
> Back in July, we were discussing about a problem with a PVR-150 MCE
> concerning captures from the OSD of a VCR:
> 
> On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 16:11 -0400, Andy Walls wrote:
> > As root, for those two scenarios, if you provide the output of:
> > 
> > # v4l2-dbg -R type=i2cdrv,chip=cx25840
> > 
> > This will let me see how the cx25843 is set and what it's status is
> > (i.e. does it have horizontal sync).
> > 
> > I think it will be a matter of setting amplifier gain and clamping
> > settings.
> 
> At that time, my kernel was compiled without kernel debug info so
> v4l2-debug was unable to dump the registers. As it was just before my
> holidays, later I completely forgot the issue since I rarely use the
> composite input.
> 
> Last sunday (faced again with the problem), I compiled the new kernel
> with debug on, and finally dumped the registers of the cx25840 as you
> will find attached (static.dump for the OSD without tape played and
> dynamic.dump when playing back a tape).
> 
> There are obviously lots of differences between them, but I have no
> knowledge of the register structure of the chip. Could you have a look
> at these files, maybe it will give you an idea about the nature of the
> problem.
> 
> Thanks for your help and my excuses for the really huge delay in my
> reply.

Does somebody know how to interpret the register dump of the cx25840
(and also how to set a register to a given value)? Some of the registers
are clearly different during a static OSD capture and a dynamic one
(when the tape is being played).

Levente
 


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