On 5/28/05, Ryan Steffes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/22/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Childe, > > Thanks very much. I think this is helping. After many problems > > today I'm back to having at least the test method for the PVR-150 > > correctly storing files using cat and then playing them back using > > mplayer. > > > > Now I'm trying to get mythsetup done correctly. I'm guessing a bit > > here. Can you tell me how you set yours up in the backend? > > > > 1) Since the PVR-150 is supposed to be a cost reduced version of the > > 250 I've chosen my capture card type to be a PVR-250/350. Is this what > > you did? > > > > 2) I've set the video device as /dev/v4l/video0 and the tuner as > > Tuner0. (Do you also have 'Tuner1' as an option?) > > > > 3) Under input connections I've set Tuner0->Adelphia (The name of my > > cable TV service at this location. > > > > This all makes basic sense, but when I try to watch TV I only get a > > black screen, no audio, and I have to Ctrl-C out of the terminal to > > get back. I cannot hit escape to exit the watch TV screen. > > > > Help! I think I'm pretty close! > > > > > > What exactly did you do to go from here to working? I think I'm > getting close to that same point but don't know what to do from here. > This PVR150 is giving me a run for my money. I finally got pictures > and sound from cat /dev/video but got a blackscreen and had to kill X > when I tried to set mythtv to watch it. > > Any help would be appreciated! >
Ryan, OK, this is from memory but the following is what I believe I did: 1) Downloaded the development tarball for ivtv from their site: http://ivtv.writeme.ch/tiki-index.php?page=DownloadIvyTv Please get the tarball on this page - called ivtv-0.3.3k.tgz 2) Built and installed this using the doc/QuickSetup instructions. Follow them carefully. 3) Placed the following in my /etc/modules.d/ivtv file: alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c alias char-major-81 videodev alias char-major-81-0 ivtv options cx25840 no_black_magic=1 options ivtv ivtv_std=0 tuner=50 tda9887=0 ivtv_debug=1 options cx25840 i2c_enable=1 options saa7127 i2c_enable=-1 install ivtv /sbin/modprobe tuner; /sbin/modprobe msp3400; /sbin/modprobe saa7115; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ivtv remove ivtv /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove ivtv && /sbin/modprobe -r saa7115 && /sbin/modprobe -r msp3400 && /sbin/modprobe -r tuner #options ivtv ivtv-debug=0 mpg_buffers=90 #options tuner type=2 #options msp3400 once=1 simple=1 debug=0 #add below ivtv msp3400 saa7115 tuner #add above ivtv lirc_dev lirc_i2c Note that the above is distro dependent and might go elsewhere on your machine. I'm using Gentoo. Basically it's a modprobe.conf entry somewhere. 4) Updated everything Myth to 18.1. I'm sure that's not necessary but I did. 5) Ensured that the kernel was v4l compatible. 6) Converted the machine to udev from devfs. This is most likely not required. At this point when I modprobed ivtv I got v4l devices under /dev/v4l/videoX. With that in place Myth pretty much worked right away using /dev/v4l/video. Until I had the v4l devices I was able to do the test capture using /dev/video but I wasn't able to use Myth. Hope this helps, Mark _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
