Lars Maersk wrote: > Greetings, > > I have an HVR-1950 75111 LF REV C3E9. I extracted the drivers from the > Version 4.6 CD using http://www.isely.net/downloads/fwextract.pl. > > % ls /lib/firmware/v4l* > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 2008-11-08 08:35 v4l-pvrusb2-73xxx-01.fw > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 2008-11-08 08:35 v4l-pvrusb2-29xxx-01.fw > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12559 2008-11-08 08:35 v4l-cx25840.fw > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 376836 2008-11-08 08:35 v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw > > When I plug the device, dmesg shows: > > usb 2-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 8 > usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice > cx25840' 1-0044: cx25843-24 found @ 0x88 (pvrusb2_a) > tuner' 1-0042: chip found @ 0x84 (pvrusb2_a) > tveeprom 1-00a2: Hauppauge model 75111, rev C3E9, serial# 5127642 > tveeprom 1-00a2: MAC address is 00-0D-FE-4E-3D-DA > tveeprom 1-00a2: tuner model is Philips 18271_8295 (idx 149, type 54) > tveeprom 1-00a2: TV standards NTSC(M) ATSC/DVB Digital (eeprom 0x88) > tveeprom 1-00a2: audio processor is CX25843 (idx 37) > tveeprom 1-00a2: decoder processor is CX25843 (idx 30) > tveeprom 1-00a2: has radio, has IR receiver, has IR transmitter > pvrusb2: Supported video standard(s) reported available in hardware: > PAL-M/N/Nc;NTSC-M/Mj/Mk;ATSC-8VSB/16VSB > pvrusb2: Mapping standards mask=0x300b700 > (PAL-M/N/Nc;NTSC-M/Mj/Mk;ATSC-8VSB/16VSB) > pvrusb2: Setting up 6 unique standard(s) > pvrusb2: Set up standard idx=0 name=PAL-M > pvrusb2: Set up standard idx=1 name=PAL-N > pvrusb2: Set up standard idx=2 name=PAL-Nc > pvrusb2: Set up standard idx=3 name=NTSC-M > pvrusb2: Set up standard idx=4 name=NTSC-Mj > pvrusb2: Set up standard idx=5 name=NTSC-Mk > pvrusb2: Initial video standard (determined by device type): NTSC-M > pvrusb2: Device initialization completed successfully. > pvrusb2: registered device video1 [mpeg] > DVB: registering new adapter (pvrusb2-dvb) > firmware: requesting v4l-cx25840.fw > cx25840' 1-0044: loaded v4l-cx25840.fw firmware (12559 bytes) > tda829x 1-0042: setting tuner address to 60 > tda18271 1-0060: creating new instance > TDA18271HD/C1 detected @ 1-0060 > tda829x 1-0042: type set to tda8295+18271 > cx25840' 1-0044: Video signal: not present > cx25840' 1-0044: Detected format: NTSC-M > cx25840' 1-0044: Specified standard: NTSC-M > cx25840' 1-0044: Specified video input: Composite 7 > cx25840' 1-0044: Specified audioclock freq: 48000 Hz > cx25840' 1-0044: Detected audio mode: mono > cx25840' 1-0044: Detected audio standard: no detected audio standard > cx25840' 1-0044: Audio muted: no > cx25840' 1-0044: Audio microcontroller: detecting > cx25840' 1-0044: Configured audio standard: automatic detection > cx25840' 1-0044: Configured audio system: BTSC > cx25840' 1-0044: Specified audio input: Tuner (In8) > cx25840' 1-0044: Preferred audio mode: stereo > cx25840' 1-0044: 0x0000 is not a valid video input! > DVB: registering frontend 0 (Samsung S5H1411 QAM/8VSB Frontend)... > tda829x 1-0042: type set to tda8295 > tda18271 1-0060: attaching existing instance > > Except for the "not a valid video input!", I'd think everything is right. > > Now my problems: > 1. I use mplayer to play both analog and digital. When I issue: > % mplayer pvr:// -tv > driver=v4l2:input=0:device=/dev/video1:chanlist=us-bcast:channel=10 > > video and audio work perfectly for about 5 minutes. After that I get this > invariably: > > Broken frame at 0xD5B040 > > Too many video packets in the buffer: (4096 in 7989804 bytes). > Maybe you are playing a non-interleaved stream/file or the codec failed? > For AVI files, try to force non-interleaved mode with the -ni option. > A: 292.2 V: 281.5 A-V: 10.723 ct: 3.160 8358/8358 8% 1% 20.8% 362 0 > > From there on I get a lot of broken frames and the signal never recovers > again until I quit and restart mplayer. I'm not sure if this is due to my > mplayer settings, I've tried different combinations of parameters to no > avail. > > 2. The digital side is not working at all. The dvb-utils scan application > fails to find any station. I'm using a channel configuration file I created > for the HVR-950q: > % mplayer dvb://VPT-HD > Playing dvb://VPT-HD. > dvb_tune Freq: 581028615 > Not able to lock to the signal on the given frequency, timeout: 30 > dvb_tune, TUNING FAILED > ERROR, COULDN'T SET CHANNEL 2: Failed to open dvb://VPT-HD. > > azap fails to tune the channel too. > > Questions: > 1. Any suggestions regarding the analog side? > 2. Is there something missing on the digital side? The digital side of the > 950q works perfectly and the 1950 works well on the other OS, so it's not an > environmental issue. > > This is a non customized ArchLinux kernel 2.6.27-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun > Oct 26 10:08:01 UTC 2008 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ > AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux > > Thanks, > > Lars > _______________________________________________ > pvrusb2 mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.isely.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pvrusb2 > Hi, Are you using the in-tree version from http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb? If not, I suggest you try the most recent version. They had an update recently regarding s5h1411 and problems I had with the digital tuner are gone (...almost). One thing to note is that I don't know about mplayer but it works for mythtv.
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