Mark Jenks wrote: > Hello all, > > I am trying to connect a HVR-1800 directly to the cable from the cable > company without a STB. I have it plugged into the TV port of the > card, since I want to capture the analog signals. > > I have the latest mercurial drivers loaded and have the /dev/video > showing up and no errors that I can see. If I move the cable over to > ATSC and scan for QAM, I find a few channels, but nothing like I would > get if I plugged it right into a TV without a cablebox. > > The problem is, I can't seem to capture anything but a black screen on > it. Maybe I am doing something wrong, since I don't seem to have a > ivtv-tune command anywhere? > > I tried to cat /dev/video1 > test.mpg and didn't get anything. If I > run v4lcrl -c /dev/video1 setnorm or setstation I don't get any > errors. Even v4l-info /dev/video1 doesn't show any problems that I > can see. > > v4lctl -c /dev/video1 list > attribute | type | current | default | comment > -----------+--------+---------+---------+------------------------------------- > norm | choice | NTSC-M- | NTSC-M | NTSC-M NTSC-M-JP NTSC-443 > PAL-BG PAL-I PAL-DK PAL-M PAL-N PAL-Nc PAL-60 SECAM-DK SECAM-L > input | choice | Televis | Televis | Television Composite1 S-Video > audio mode | choice | mono | mono | mono stereo lang1 lang2 > bright | int | 146 | 127 | range is 0 => 255 > contrast | int | 62 | 63 | range is 0 => 255 > color | int | 65 | 127 | range is 0 => 255 > hue | int | 0 | 127 | range is 0 => 255 > volume | int | 60928 | 63 | range is 0 => 63 > mute | bool | off | on | > > > What am I missing? It must be something basic? > > Thanks! > > -Mark > > _______________________________________________ > ivtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users > Take what I have with a grain of salt because I'm still new at video devices in linux but, I have a HVR-1800 and this is what I know:
1) The HVR-1800 does not use the ivtv drivers so this isn't the correct list (I think). 2) In order for me to get anything out of my HVR-1800 I have to tune the analog video (/dev/video0) and then cat the mpeg video (/dev/video1). So, I either open tvtime and tune that way or use '$ v42-ctl -f <frequency> -d /dev/video0' and then cat /dev/video1 I hope this helps. -josh _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
