Sorry to say but I am not likely much more help here.  To me it does not look 
promising as there may be a dead card if you get a signal detected and then no 
actual image.  

Thanks,
Peter




On 2012-06-27, at 12:21 PM, Robert Rust wrote:

> I'm trying to capture off the analog tuner (input 0) and that's already set 
> to the correct standard (NTSC-M). It looks like I can tune with ivtv-ctl, as 
> I get "Signal Detected" on channels I receive ... but dumping to a file or 
> mplayer still results in nothing (mplayer caching never progresses).
> 
> -Robert
> 
> p.s. is top-posting the preferred response method on this list?  I know it's 
> frowned-upon elsewhere.
> 
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Peter Schneider 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> Here are some instructions that Andy helped me with some time back that I 
> think will be of help.  I think I will actually put this to my blog in the 
> near future too.  Hope this helps as basically you will want to identify 
> where your tuner really is and make sure it is using the right standard.
> 
> You may have to write some udev rules to help out after you have it figured 
> out.  Recently I found my dev folders wandering a little.  To help you there 
> you can go to the following link for a blog entry that I did on the matter.  
> http://petersopus.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/cure-for-the-drifting-dev-folder/
> 
> Thanks,
> Peter
> 
>>> Please install v4l2-ctl (probably in a v4l2-utils package) and mplayer.
>>> 
>>> Kill the mythbackend, if it is running.
>>> 
>>> Then run v4l2-ctl --list-devices, to see what card corresponds to which
>>> devices nodes.  For example:
>>> 
>>>       $ v4l2-ctl --list-devices
>>>       Hauppauge HVR-1600 (PCI:0000:03:00.0):
>>>             /dev/video0
>>>             /dev/video24
>>>             /dev/video32
>>>             /dev/vbi0
>>> 
>>>       Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150 (PCI:0000:03:01.0):
>>>             /dev/video2
>>>             /dev/video26
>>>             /dev/video34
>>>             /dev/radio2
>>>             /dev/vbi2
>>> 
>>>       Hauppauge HVR-1600 (PCI:0000:03:02.0):
>>>             /dev/video1
>>>             /dev/video25
>>>             /dev/video33
>>>             /dev/radio1
>>>             /dev/vbi1
>>> 
>>> On a device from which you wish to capture S-Video, set the proper input
>>> and analog TV standard using v4l2-ctl:
>>> 
>>>       $ v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video0 --list-inputs
>>>       ioctl: VIDIOC_ENUMINPUT
>>>             Input       : 0
>>>             Name        : Tuner 1
>>>             Type        : 0x00000001
>>>             Audioset    : 0x00000007
>>>             Tuner       : 0x00000000
>>>             Standard    : 0x0000000000001000 (NTSC-M)
>>>             Status      : 0x00000000 (ok)
>>>             Capabilities: 0x00000004 (SD presets)
>>> 
>>>             Input       : 1
>>>             Name        : S-Video 1
>>>             Type        : 0x00000002
>>>             Audioset    : 0x00000007
>>>             Tuner       : 0x00000000
>>>             Standard    : 0x0000000000FFFFFF 
>>> (PAL-B/B1/G/H/I/D/D1/K/M/N/Nc/60 NTSC-M/M-JP/443/M-KR 
>>> SECAM-B/D/G/H/K/K1/L/Lc)
>>>             Status      : 0x00000000 (ok)
>>>             Capabilities: 0x00000004 (SD presets)
>>> 
>>>             Input       : 2
>>>             Name        : Composite 1
>>>             Type        : 0x00000002
>>>             Audioset    : 0x00000007
>>>             Tuner       : 0x00000000
>>>             Standard    : 0x0000000000FFFFFF 
>>> (PAL-B/B1/G/H/I/D/D1/K/M/N/Nc/60 NTSC-M/M-JP/443/M-KR 
>>> SECAM-B/D/G/H/K/K1/L/Lc)
>>>             Status      : 0x00000000 (ok)
>>>             Capabilities: 0x00000004 (SD presets)
>>>             [...]
>>> 
>>>       $ v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video0 --set-input=1
>>>       Video input set to 1 (S-Video 1: ok)
>>> 
>>>       $ v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video0 --list-standards
>>>       ioctl: VIDIOC_ENUMSTD
>>>             Index       : 0
>>>             ID          : 0x000000000000B000
>>>             Name        : NTSC
>>>             Frame period: 1001/30000
>>>             Frame lines : 525
>>> 
>>>             Index       : 1
>>>             ID          : 0x0000000000001000
>>>             Name        : NTSC-M
>>>             Frame period: 1001/30000
>>>             Frame lines : 525
>>>       [...]
>>> 
>>>       $ v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video0 --set-standard=1
>>>       Standard set to 00001000
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Turn on your S-Video source, and then just capture an MPEG live with 
>>> mplayer:
>>> 
>>>       $ mplayer /dev/video0 -cache 8192
>>> 
>>> or capture a file for later playback
>>> 
>>>       $ cat /dev/video0 > foo.mpg
>>>       ^C
>>>       $ mplayer foo.mpg
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Here is what I see on the two problematic analog tuners.
>>> 
>>> Looks like an untuned tuner input driving the encoder, not S-Video.  An
>>> S-Video input that is connected but has no signal is usually a solid
>>> grey or black screen.
>>> 
> 
>>> One last step is to verify that you do in fact have a video signal with
>>> a known good devices (such as a TV).  If you have RF analog or RF
>>> digital reception problems, you may want to review this checklist as
>>> well:
>>> 
>>> http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Howto:Improve_signal_quality
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Andy
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 2012-06-27, at 10:53 AM, Robert Rust wrote:
> 
>> I have been trying in vain for weeks trying to get an HVR-1600 tuner card to 
>> work in a new system I built (Intel mobo, Core i5, 8G RAM).  It worked fine 
>> in my old one but I'm not getting anything when I try to capture, either 
>> with MythTV or directly cat'ing /dev/video > filename.mpg.  I've tried 
>> installing the same version of mythbuntu (10.04 w/2.6.32 kernel) that I have 
>> on my working system but the motherboard is too new to get network support 
>> in that kernel (so installing all the various dependencies for ivtv-utils 
>> appears to be incredibly difficult).
>> Any suggestions?  I am not seeing anything in kernel log right now 
>> suggesting a direction to go.
>> 
>> -Robert
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