Re: [ivtv-devel] Problems with PVR500
On 11/27/05, Christian Iversen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 27 November 2005 21:53, Andrew Plumb wrote: On 11/2/05, Christian Iversen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 01 November 2005 18:10, Ray Lehtiniemi wrote: On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 03:39:55PM +0100, Christian Iversen wrote:On Sunday 30 October 2005 22:41, Christian Iversen wrote: Can anybody help me here? well, drawing upon my 8 hours or so of experience with this card... :-) Thank you so much for replying! I'll get back to you and Hans Verkuil with more information about the problems, as soon as my exams are done (in a few days) Hi Christian, Did you have any luck with this?I'm running into the same problem with a PVR500 and VIA EPIA VT-310DP (dual-proc mini-itx) in a 1U Travla C146 case (which comes with a dual-PCI riser card).No, sorry. I had to send the card back for a refund, because of all thistrouble. The shop sent me an email stating that they had sent the card backto the distributor, so it might actually have been broken. Seems odd with a brand new card, though.Have you tried moving the card to another slot? Thanks for the reply. Not yet, but before I do that I have a spare PVR350 I'm going to try. The problem could be with the riser card or the VT-310DP, so I'll start with the PVR350 plugged directly into the VT-310DP, then into riser card, then the PVR500 direct. But before I do any of that I'll have to reset the CMOS. I accidently disabled the VGA output in BIOS last night. D'oh! Andrew. -- If you don't know what to do, do something. ___ ivtv-devel mailing list ivtv-devel@ivtvdriver.org http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel
Re: [ivtv-devel] Problems with PVR500
On 11/28/05, Andrew Plumb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/27/05, Christian Iversen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 27 November 2005 21:53, Andrew Plumb wrote:[deletia] Hi Christian, Did you have any luck with this?I'm running into the same problem with a PVR500 and VIA EPIA VT-310DP (dual-proc mini-itx) in a 1U Travla C146 case (which comes with a dual-PCI riser card).No, sorry. I had to send the card back for a refund, because of all thistrouble. The shop sent me an email stating that they had sent the card backto the distributor, so it might actually have been broken. Seems odd with a brand new card, though.Have you tried moving the card to another slot? Thanks for the reply. Not yet, but before I do that I have a spare PVR350 I'm going to try. The problem could be with the riser card or the VT-310DP, so I'll start with the PVR350 plugged directly into the VT-310DP, then into riser card, then the PVR500 direct. But before I do any of that I'll have to reset the CMOS. I accidently disabled the VGA output in BIOS last night. D'oh! Andrew. ...and the answer appears to be a little of all of the above. I had seen a little PCI2 stencilled above one slot and assumed I had put the card into PCI1, when in fact I had put it in PCI3. Putting either the PCR350 or PVR500 in PCI2 works, but can't have both cards in (one in each slot) at the same time. There's a little jumper on the C146's dual-slot riser card, but absolutely no documentation as to what it's supposed to do. The default setting is AD30 (AD20-31 are the options). Some alternate settings boot with two cards in place, others don't. Adding a second jumper acts like a bad idea; HDD LED stays on wy too long as you wait for bios setup prompt to come up - no damage done. Might as well stick with the default. Given the existance of active v.s. passive riser cards (see http://mini-itx.com/store/?c=8#p1902) I suspect the C146 ships with a passive and that's why I'm running into problems. Unfortunately, the PVR500 board is a shade too long to use in the lower PCI2 position in the C146 so I'm stuck using the PVR350 only. Oh well, can't win 'em all! Aside: IVTV 0.4.1 seems to initialize fine with either board (in PCI2) as long as one remembers to copy firmware into the new /lib/firmware location. Andrew. -- If you don't know what to do, do something. ___ ivtv-devel mailing list ivtv-devel@ivtvdriver.org http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel
Re: [ivtv-devel] Problems with PVR500
On 11/2/05, Christian Iversen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 01 November 2005 18:10, Ray Lehtiniemi wrote: On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 03:39:55PM +0100, Christian Iversen wrote: On Sunday 30 October 2005 22:41, Christian Iversen wrote: Can anybody help me here? well, drawing upon my 8 hours or so of experience with this card... :-)Thank you so much for replying! I'll get back to you and Hans Verkuil withmore information about the problems, as soon as my exams are done (in a few days) Hi Christian, Did you have any luck with this? I'm running into the same problem with a PVR500 and VIA EPIA VT-310DP (dual-proc mini-itx) in a 1U Travla C146 case (which comes with a dual-PCI riser card). Andrew. -- If you don't know what to do, do something. ___ ivtv-devel mailing list ivtv-devel@ivtvdriver.org http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel
Re: [ivtv-devel] Problems with PVR500
On Tuesday 01 November 2005 18:10, Ray Lehtiniemi wrote: On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 03:39:55PM +0100, Christian Iversen wrote: On Sunday 30 October 2005 22:41, Christian Iversen wrote: Can anybody help me here? well, drawing upon my 8 hours or so of experience with this card... :-) Thank you so much for replying! I'll get back to you and Hans Verkuil with more information about the problems, as soon as my exams are done (in a few days) -- Regards, Christian Iversen ___ ivtv-devel mailing list ivtv-devel@ivtvdriver.org http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel
Re: [ivtv-devel] Problems with PVR500
On Sunday 30 October 2005 22:41, Christian Iversen wrote: Can anybody help me here? Hi all. I have a brand new PVR500 (MCE) card. I have some questions in this regard. Please, if you can answer even just one question, I would be very grateful if you would take the time to answer me. If something isn't completely clear, please let me know and I'll improve the description in any way needed. Information first, questions later: lspci gives: :02:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01) :02:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01) (any idea why the PVR is on :02, when _everything_ else is on :00 ?) dmesg gives: -- ivtv: START INIT IVTV ivtv: version 0.4.0 (tagged release) loading ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.13-zephyr preempt K7 REGPARM gcc-3.3 ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info ivtv: between the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines when ivtv: mailing the ivtv-devel mailinglist. ivtv0: Autodetected WinTV PVR 150 card (iTVC16 based) ACPI: PCI Interrupt :02:08.0[A] - GSI 18 (level, low) - IRQ 21 tuner (ivtv): chip found at addr 0xc0 i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver #0 TEA5767 detected. ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=(tuner unset), addr=60] tuner: type set to 62 (Philips TEA5767HN FM Radio) by autodetect type set to 62 (Philips TEA5767HN FM Radio) tuner (ivtv): chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver #0 ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=(tuner unset), addr=61] cx25840 1-0044: cx25843-23 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #0) cx25840 1-0044: loaded /lib/modules/HcwMakoA.ROM firmware (14264 bytes) ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=cx25840, addr=44] wm8775 1-001b: chip found @ 0x36 (ivtv i2c driver #0) ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=wm8775, addr=1b] tda9885/6/7: (ivtv) chip found @ 0x86 ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=tda9887, addr=43] tveeprom: Second (radio) tuner idx 101 tveeprom: ivtv version tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 23659, rev = D491, serial# = 8093206 tveeprom: tuner = Philips FQ1216AME MK4 (idx = 91, type = 56) tveeprom: tuner fmt = PAL(B/G) PAL(I) SECAM(L/L') PAL(D/K) (eeprom = 0x74, v4l2 = 0x00400e17) tveeprom: audio processor = CX25843 (type = 25) tveeprom: decoder processor = CX25843 (type = 1e) ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=tveeprom, addr=50] ivtv0: This is the first unit of a PVR500 ivtv0: Detected a TEA5767 radio tuner. Enabling radio support. cdrom: open failed. ivtv0: loading /lib/modules/ivtv-fw-enc.bin ivtv0 warning: Encoder mailbox not found ivtv0 warning: Decoder mailbox not found ivtv0: Error locating firmware. ivtv0: Error -12 on initialization ivtv-iTVC15_16_mpg2_encoder_card: probe of :02:08.0 failed with error -12 ivtv0: Autodetected WinTV PVR 150 card (iTVC16 based) ACPI: PCI Interrupt :02:09.0[A] - GSI 19 (level, low) - IRQ 17 tuner (ivtv): chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver #0 ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=(tuner unset), addr=61] cx25840 1-0044: cx25843-23 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #0) cdrom: open failed. cx25840 1-0044: loaded /lib/modules/HcwMakoA.ROM firmware (14264 bytes) ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=cx25840, addr=44] wm8775 1-001b: chip found @ 0x36 (ivtv i2c driver #0) ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=wm8775, addr=1b] tda9885/6/7: (ivtv) chip found @ 0x86 ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=tda9887, addr=43] tveeprom: Second (radio) tuner idx 101 tveeprom: ivtv version tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 23659, rev = D491, serial# = 8093206 tveeprom: tuner = Philips FQ1216AME MK4 (idx = 91, type = 56) tveeprom: tuner fmt = PAL(B/G) PAL(I) SECAM(L/L') PAL(D/K) (eeprom = 0x74, v4l2 = 0x00400e17) tveeprom: audio processor = CX25843 (type = 25) tveeprom: decoder processor = CX25843 (type = 1e) ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=tveeprom, addr=50] ivtv0: This is the second unit of a PVR500 ivtv0: Correcting tveeprom data: no radio present on second unit ivtv0: loading /lib/modules/ivtv-fw-enc.bin ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02050032 ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG stream: 128 x 32768 buffers (4096KB total) ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder YUV stream: 161 x 12960 buffers (2048KB total) ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder VBI stream: 80 x 26208 buffers (2048KB total) ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder PCM audio stream: 455 x 4608 buffers (2048KB total) tuner: type set to 56 (Philips PAL/SECAM multi (FQ1216AME MK4)) by ivtv i2c driver #0 ivtv0: Initialized WinTV PVR 500 (unit #2), card #0 ivtv: END INIT IVTV -- these lines worry me: ivtv0 warning: Encoder mailbox not found ivtv0 warning: Decoder mailbox not found ivtv0: Error locating firmware. ivtv0: Error -12 on initialization ivtv-iTVC15_16_mpg2_encoder_card: probe of :02:08.0 failed
Re: [ivtv-devel] Problems with PVR500
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 03:39:55PM +0100, Christian Iversen wrote: On Sunday 30 October 2005 22:41, Christian Iversen wrote: Can anybody help me here? well, drawing upon my 8 hours or so of experience with this card... :-) (any idea why the PVR is on :02, when _everything_ else is on :00 ?) i'd guess the card has it's own PCI-PCI bridge onboard? 'lspci -t' should draw the two decoders on their own subtree if so. dmesg gives: -- ivtv: START INIT IVTV ivtv: version 0.4.0 (tagged release) loading ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.13-zephyr preempt K7 REGPARM gcc-3.3 ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info ivtv: between the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines when ivtv: mailing the ivtv-devel mailinglist. ivtv0: Autodetected WinTV PVR 150 card (iTVC16 based) ACPI: PCI Interrupt :02:08.0[A] - GSI 18 (level, low) - IRQ 21 tuner (ivtv): chip found at addr 0xc0 i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver #0 TEA5767 detected. ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=(tuner unset), addr=60] tuner: type set to 62 (Philips TEA5767HN FM Radio) by autodetect type set to 62 (Philips TEA5767HN FM Radio) tuner (ivtv): chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver #0 ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=(tuner unset), addr=61] cx25840 1-0044: cx25843-23 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #0) cx25840 1-0044: loaded /lib/modules/HcwMakoA.ROM firmware (14264 bytes) ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=cx25840, addr=44] wm8775 1-001b: chip found @ 0x36 (ivtv i2c driver #0) ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=wm8775, addr=1b] tda9885/6/7: (ivtv) chip found @ 0x86 ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=tda9887, addr=43] tveeprom: Second (radio) tuner idx 101 tveeprom: ivtv version tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 23659, rev = D491, serial# = 8093206 tveeprom: tuner = Philips FQ1216AME MK4 (idx = 91, type = 56) tveeprom: tuner fmt = PAL(B/G) PAL(I) SECAM(L/L') PAL(D/K) (eeprom = 0x74, mine come up NTSC, since i'm in NA. v4l2 = 0x00400e17) tveeprom: audio processor = CX25843 (type = 25) tveeprom: decoder processor = CX25843 (type = 1e) ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=tveeprom, addr=50] ivtv0: This is the first unit of a PVR500 ivtv0: Detected a TEA5767 radio tuner. Enabling radio support. cdrom: open failed. i don't recall seeing cdrom output in my dmesg, but i'm away from my machine and working from memory here... ivtv0: loading /lib/modules/ivtv-fw-enc.bin ivtv0 warning: Encoder mailbox not found ivtv0 warning: Decoder mailbox not found ivtv0: Error locating firmware. ivtv0: Error -12 on initialization ivtv-iTVC15_16_mpg2_encoder_card: probe of :02:08.0 failed with error it's interesting that the HcwMakoA loaded, but not the encoder are the file permissions/ownership the same on each file? try throwing a copy of fw-enc into /lib/firmware as well... maybe it's getting confused about the hardcoded vs. fwloader paths? -12 ivtv0: Autodetected WinTV PVR 150 card (iTVC16 based) everything below this is prefixed with ivtv0, probably because of the failed fw-enc load. on mine, the enc firmware loads, and everything below is prefixed with ivtv1. ACPI: PCI Interrupt :02:09.0[A] - GSI 19 (level, low) - IRQ 17 tuner (ivtv): chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver #0 ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=(tuner unset), addr=61] cx25840 1-0044: cx25843-23 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #0) cdrom: open failed. cx25840 1-0044: loaded /lib/modules/HcwMakoA.ROM firmware (14264 bytes) ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=cx25840, addr=44] wm8775 1-001b: chip found @ 0x36 (ivtv i2c driver #0) ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=wm8775, addr=1b] tda9885/6/7: (ivtv) chip found @ 0x86 ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=tda9887, addr=43] tveeprom: Second (radio) tuner idx 101 tveeprom: ivtv version tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 23659, rev = D491, serial# = 8093206 tveeprom: tuner = Philips FQ1216AME MK4 (idx = 91, type = 56) tveeprom: tuner fmt = PAL(B/G) PAL(I) SECAM(L/L') PAL(D/K) (eeprom = 0x74, v4l2 = 0x00400e17) tveeprom: audio processor = CX25843 (type = 25) tveeprom: decoder processor = CX25843 (type = 1e) ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=tveeprom, addr=50] ivtv0: This is the second unit of a PVR500 ivtv0: Correcting tveeprom data: no radio present on second unit ivtv0: loading /lib/modules/ivtv-fw-enc.bin and yet here, the fw loads! not at all sure why this one would work, but the first time it fails! ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02050032 ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG stream: 128 x 32768 buffers (4096KB total) ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder YUV stream: 161 x 12960 buffers (2048KB total) ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder VBI stream: 80 x 26208 buffers (2048KB total) ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder PCM audio stream: 455 x 4608 buffers (2048KB total) tuner: type set
Re: [ivtv-devel] Problems with PVR500
On Sunday 30 October 2005 22:41, Christian Iversen wrote: Hi all. I have a brand new PVR500 (MCE) card. I have some questions in this regard. Please, if you can answer even just one question, I would be very grateful if you would take the time to answer me. If something isn't completely clear, please let me know and I'll improve the description in any way needed. Information first, questions later: lspci gives: :02:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01) :02:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01) (any idea why the PVR is on :02, when _everything_ else is on :00 ?) These PVR500 cards have some sort of internal PCI bridge because it is really two PCI cards on one single PCI board. dmesg gives: snip these lines worry me: ivtv0 warning: Encoder mailbox not found ivtv0 warning: Decoder mailbox not found ivtv0: Error locating firmware. ivtv0: Error -12 on initialization ivtv-iTVC15_16_mpg2_encoder_card: probe of :02:08.0 failed with error -12 Me too. The first unit can read the firmware but when the driver looks for a specific magic number (the mailbox address) it cannot find it. The same action works fine for the other unit. I recommend that you try to test this PVR500 card in a Windows PC. If I had to hazard a guess I'd say that the memory to which the firmware is uploaded is possibly broken. it seems that something fails, yet I can still watch television on at least one head. But maybe this error message is not the real problem? firmware md5: 3a4803384f749d644ee1f1ca9dcb12fa /lib/modules/HcwMakoA.ROM 5f5fa240ada73c3565f5f7de4c7b5138 /lib/modules/ivtv-fw-enc.bin 1) Is there any important difference between the regular version and the MCE version? - i.e, are they both supported? both are supported. 2) Shouldn't the two heads on the PVR500 register as video0 and video1? I currently only get video0 (+ 24/32) Yes, but the first unit cannot be initialized and so does not appear. 3) Is it possible to use one or both heads as plain YUV grabbers? Is that what video24/32 is for? I can't get it to work. Here's how it fails: ioctl(6, VIDIOC_REQBUFS or VT_DISALLOCATE, 0xbfb841d0) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) (I get now that video24 has RAW audio. But what's video32 for then?) video32 is for raw YUV but the V4L buffer API (VIDIOC_REQBUFS) is not implemented. 4) How come the card seems to stop or go into some kind of idle mode when not used for a while? For instance, if I haven't watched anything on it in a days time or so, I can do this: $ ivtv-tune -f831.25 /dev/video0: 831.250 MHz No signal it seems. Indeed, mplayer /dev/video0 gives 100% black frames, without sound. If I do # modprobe -r ivtv modprobe ivtv $ ivtv-tune -f831.25 /dev/video0: 831.250 MHz (Signal Detected) It reports that there IS a signal on the very same frequency, and mplayer gives a pretty good picture with sound and perfect sync. Isn't that some kind of error? Never seen this before. Can someone reproduce this? I don't know enough to answer the remaining two questions, so I leave them to someone else. Hans 5) What are the possibilities for using transcode to further compress the stream, perhaps into mpeg4? I'm having trouble finding an input plugin that can grok the video and audio delivered by the PVR500 card. 6) Is it correct that the DNR filter either does nothing much if dnr_temporal is low, or creates weird artefacts if dnr_temporal is high? Shouldn't it do some sort of smoothing? Thanks for reading the whole mail :-) ___ ivtv-devel mailing list ivtv-devel@ivtvdriver.org http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel
