On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 17:42 -0400, SoxSlayer wrote: > I have just gotten my HVR 1600 working, well sortof, and I'm running > into some problems. I have used the latest driver from linuxtv.org. > The driver and firmware load just fine and dmesg report nothing which > would indicate an error. When I try and view the tv feed with mplayer > tv:// the following is the output: > > $ mplayer tv:// > MPlayer SVN-r29463-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
Do this instead: $ v4l2-ctl -i 0 Video input set to 0 (Tuner 1) $ ivtv-tune -t us-cable -c 4 /dev/video0: 67.250 MHz (Signal Detected) $ mplayer /dev/video0 -cache 8192 MPlayer dev-SVN-r26936-4.3.0 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+ (Family: 15, Model: 107, Stepping: 2) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled with runtime CPU detection. mplayer: could not connect to socket mplayer: No such file or directory Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control. Playing /dev/video0. Cache fill: 18.85% (1581056 bytes) MPEG-PS file format detected. VIDEO: MPEG2 720x480 (aspect 2) 29.970 fps 8000.0 kbps (1000.0 kbyte/s) .... > When I do cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg then play the file there is no > audio and the video is not clear. I can barely tell what channel it is > but it is in black and white and is very badly distorted. Hmmm, that should always work. Perhaps trying to use the tv:// option to mplayer set the cx18 driver to an unusual state. Unload and reload the module just to be sure you're in a known good state before running the above test. Regards, Andy > My linux distro is Gentoo with the latest, 2.6.30-gentoo-r4, kernel. > Can anyone help with this problem? I just want to be able to watch tv > from my linux box, no fancy mythtv or recording. _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
