On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:20:21 -0400 Andy Walls <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 Alright thanks. I'll mess with it when I have more time, classes have just started for me. I appreciate all the help getting it working, it was bugging me that it was working in Windows but not Linux. Keep up the excellent work bring free software to the Open Source community. -- Dustin Mitchell [email protected] _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
