On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 20:40 -0400, SoxSlayer wrote: > On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:04:43 -0400 > Andy Walls <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 > >
> > Thanks a lot it worked. It's not too crucial but when there is a lot > of motion it seems like every other pixel row is laggin behind the > rest. It kinda looks like something to do with deinterlacing. Is there > some setting in mplayer that can get rid of this. I'm not sure about mplayer. You can try playing around with the MPEG encoding controls in the driver: $ v4l2-ctl --help $ v4l2-ctl -L > Also, what is the status of the IR remote that is included with the > HVR-1600? I didn't see too much information while researching the > other topics with the card and linux. It should work with the ir-kbd-i2c module in the latest v4l-dvb sources. The unfortunate problem is that the latest v4l-dvb branch is broken for LIRC. I2C subsystem changes in the latest kernels broke the interface LIRC used to hook up to I2C connected IR chips within V4L. I updated the cx18 driver to at least work with ir-kbd-i2c. LIRC is undergoing updates by Jarred Wilson, so that one day lirc_i2c and lirc_zilog (aka lirc_pvr150) will work again. See discussions within the past year on the linux-media and linux-kernel mailing lists. I need to do an analogous change for ivtv, but haven't gotten to it yet. Regards, Andy _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
