Sander Sweers wrote: > Please do not top post. > > ok, thanks for replying though. > On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 15:34, stinky wizzleteet <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> First, my Ubuntu Intrepid vanilla install (with my old mythconverg database) >> gives me choppy sound and an offset image: >> > > Mythtv is not very good for testing. Install the ivtv utilities which > should be in the oficial ubuntu packages. make sure mythtv is not > started and then: > > use ivtv-tune to tune to a channel/freqyency which has a signal. > do cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg > > Does this create a correct file? > > No, I repaired all of my wrong-doing of yesterday, apt-get update revealed a new ubuntu kernel release, which I installed, also upgraded everything else (not much).
So, I installed 2.6.27-9-generic kernel and ivtv-utils. Did a Cold Boot into 2.6.27-9 Tuned ivtv and grabbed an mpeg, which you can see at (11mb): http://www.box.net/shared/30autf07yb Basically, it is not good, shifted image, sound and video playing catchup with eachother.... >> please check it out at: >> http://www.box.net/shared/bt9kteod7l >> >> Tested Intrepid kernels are: >> 2.6.27-7-generic >> 2.6.28 built from git repository dec. 30 2008 >> > > I would stick with the oficial released versio from ubuntu. > > Ok, done >> Booted with kernel 2.6.28 dmesg gives me: >> >> [snip] >> I see nothing out of the ordinary with this, in the past (v 0.4 I believe) I >> had to specify a different tuner, tried that, but no effect whatsoever. >> > > You should not need to specify a different tuner with this kenel version. > > I tried it, but you're right, no need for it. >> Secondly, I tried to fix this by building ivtv-utils myself, but the build >> breaks because of a conflicting ivtv.h in both /usr/include/linux and >> /usr/src/linux/include/linux >> > > Why do you need to build them? They should be available from ubuntu. > > It was a long shot, I figured the ubuntu utils *could* have something to do with it. >> Also, v4l-dvb-9d9288bed20b breaks on building bttv, but for a different >> reason I suspect. >> > > That is the risk of using the bleeding edge repo from v4l-dvb. > true that. _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
