Marius Schrecker wrote:
:-) sounds great! I'm a little worried about one of the channels here which
is just about ok with mastheat amping and "boosting" at the tv (lcd job
which I think does massage the image digitally a bit to get rid of snow).
It will be interesting to see what the 150's make of it and whether Mplayer/Myth
will clean it up adequately.
I was tying to be lazy and use the 0.3.7b's which are pre-packaged as debs
on Ian Campbels repository. Aah well, it liooks like patching and installing
from tarball after-all (or waiting another couple of days ;-)
I looked at the archives from Cecils link (can't stand the thought of ANOTHER
100 mails a day from yet another list, but couldn't find any completely
up-to-date info, so went for the files from the CD, if they don't work they'll
be easy enough to replace.
Thanks for your help.
Cheers
Marius
Registered Linux user
Well, for me... I get better reception on my type 57 PVR150's than I do
on my tv set also. (I'm sure you knew the 500 is just 2 150's) With my
Sony Wega tv I get pretty good image on almost all chanels but the
PVR150's actually seem to boost and clean the image quite noticeably. On
the other hand my type 47 350 is a bit worse than the tv set. I guess
you'll never really know until you try it at your jack but hopefully
you'll see the same results as I did. I havn't tried to refine the
tuning past what my locations lineup is slated for but I wonder if I can
get some of the snow out of the 350 that way.
As far as building the drivers for debian. One thing to watch out for is
where it throws the kernel modules. I guess you could edit some things
to make it put them in the right location but my usual lazy route goes
something like this if your using a stock gcc-3.3 kernel under sid like
2.6.11 with standard gcc-4.0 installed.. (lucky for you, I already have
this written down for my brother who is installing a 500 on sid this
weekend)
cd /usr/local/src
wget http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ivtv/ivtv-0.2.0-rc3j.tgz
tar xvfz ivtv-0.3.7c.tgz
cd /usr/local/src/ivtv-0.3.7c/driver/
make CC=gcc-3.3
rm /lib/modules/2.6.11-1-k7/kernel/drivers/media/video/msp3400.ko
make install CC=gcc-3.3
cp *.ko /lib/modules/2.6.11-1-k7/build/drivers/media/video/
cp *.ko /lib/modules/2.6.11-1-k7/kernel/drivers/media/video/
vi /etc/modutils/ivtv
# you'll need something like this for PAL... but double check ivtv_std
just in case, I use ntsc which is default. Double check your tuner too.
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
alias char-major-81-1 ivtv
options ivtv ivtv_std=2,2 tuner=57,57 tda9887=0,0 ivtv_debug=1,1
options cx25840 no_black_magic=1 i2c_enable=1,1
options msp3400 once=1 simple=1
Then to load the modules I do add something like this /etc/modules
cx25840
ivtv
You will probably get away with just 'ivtv' since you don't have to deal
with saa7127 from the 250's/350's thinking it can take control of your
150's like me.
Then
update-modules
install the firmware in /lib/modules as described here
http://ivtv.writeme.ch/tiki-index.php?page=PVR150-500Firmware
(I use the supported encoder firmware and the audio firmware from the
cd... When I use just any firmware my stuff doesn't seem to have as good
quality or as good stability... thats why I use the recommended firmware)
http://ivtv.writeme.ch/tiki-index.php?page=FirmwareVersions
reboot or modprobe the modules
and try it out
cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg
cat /dev/video1 > test.mpg
then you can install ptune to change the channels and do all the mythtv
stuff.....
-Mike
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