Re: [ivtv-devel] PVR-500 poor quality - may have already been answered

2007-07-15 Thread Steven Ellis
Jack Perveiler wrote: --- Cyrus A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Buechler wrote: I've been searching though my list archive (stretching back several years) looking for mention of my problem and though I've found similar issues, none really answer my question. I have a PVR-500

Re: [ivtv-devel] DMA support on nvidia MCP55 Chipsets

2007-07-15 Thread Steven Ellis
Rett D. Walters wrote: Hans Verkuil wrote: There is nothing I can do about it. DMA issues have always plagued the cx23415/16 based cards. The cause is the buggy DMA engine of these cards and that is not something I can do anything about. Depending on your system, chipset and the phase

Re: [ivtv-devel] Please test: ivtv trunk

2006-12-20 Thread Steven Ellis
Hans Verkuil wrote: On Wednesday 20 December 2006 07:45, Steven Ellis wrote: Hans Verkuil wrote: Hi all, I think it is getting time for people to start testing the ivtv trunk from subversion. I've been running it for quite some time now and it looks to be pretty solid. Ian

Re: [ivtv-devel] Please test: ivtv trunk

2006-12-19 Thread Steven Ellis
Hans Verkuil wrote: Hi all, I think it is getting time for people to start testing the ivtv trunk from subversion. I've been running it for quite some time now and it looks to be pretty solid. Ian Armstrong has added lots of goodies in the framebuffer department (be sure to read the

Re: [ivtv-devel] [TEST] Please test ivtv beta driver!

2006-10-28 Thread Steven Ellis
Hans Verkuil wrote: I'm going to setup a MythTV environment this weekend to do more testing and shake out any remaining bugs. It clearly needs a bit more work. Best of luck with the MythTV setup. Let me know if you need any assistance. I'm not running 2.6.18 otherwise i'd offer to

Re: [ivtv-devel] DMA prob on ASUS A8N-VM CSM w/ integrated video

2006-10-04 Thread Steven Ellis
David Girault wrote: Hi all, I just want note that lot of ASUS board have buggy BIOS. Especialy ACPI DSDT table. I need to make a custom kernel with a custom DSDT to use this board correctly. Without, ACPI is fully disable and board doesn't work well. Look at

Re: [ivtv-devel] DMA prob on ASUS A8N-VM CSM w/ integrated video

2006-09-30 Thread Steven Ellis
David Morgan wrote: Hi, Well, I just replaced the ram in my mythtv box (not because I thought it was bad, but because I wanted a dual-channel setup, and one of the original ram modules newegg sent me was bad). I am now doing a similar test I did in my first post (cat /dev/video0

Re: [ivtv-devel] DMA prob on ASUS A8N-VM CSM w/ integrated video

2006-09-22 Thread Steven Ellis
David Morgan wrote: Thanks Steve, I appreciate it. BTW, I did another test today (using mythtv), to recreate what I had seen before: 1) The backend was recording a program 2) I ran MythMusic on the frontend. 3) I selected a visualization. I expected to see (as I had seen previously)

Re: [ivtv-devel] DMA prob on ASUS A8N-VM CSM w/ integrated video

2006-09-21 Thread Steven Ellis
David Morgan wrote: Incidentally, yesterday I did some testing without any OpenGL turned on in mythtv (v 0.20). I was capturing a show, commercial flagging another show, watching a previous recording, *and* I had cpuburn running. I didn't see a peep from ivtv, not one DMA error in the

Re: [ivtv-devel] Please test: DMA error patch

2006-08-26 Thread Steven Ellis
Hans Verkuil wrote: Hi all, Please keep me informed on how this works, if the test results are positive then I'll make new releases next week. Enjoy (I hope :-), Well a bit more of a positive report from me. I've tested on both PVR150MCE and PVR500MCE cards. Put the test rig back to

Re: [ivtv-devel] DMA error: update

2006-08-25 Thread Steven Ellis
Hans Verkuil wrote: Hi all, Good news, it looks like I've cracked it, at least for the 'normal' use of ivtv. I can still break it if I continuously change frequency (say 100 times a second or more), but that is outside the normal behavior of linux. If I run a script that changes

Re: [ivtv-devel] Still need help on DMA issues causing MPEG Corruption

2006-08-08 Thread Steven Ellis
Hi Hans Hans Verkuil wrote: On Tuesday 08 August 2006 23:37, Steven Ellis wrote: First off can someone setup an account on trac for me so I can update tickets 48 and 49. Axel, can you do this? Cheers Now I have been trying ivtv version 0.4.2-0.4.6, plus I've seen recent

[ivtv-devel] Using setpci with PVR150 cards to prevent DMA issues

2006-07-14 Thread Steven Ellis
There is an article on PCI Latency at the MythTV wiki - http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/PCI_Latency - that recommends using setpci to increase the latency value of IDE devices to be greater than the value allocated to the ivtv devices. Has anyone here tried this as a possible fix for Trac

Re: [ivtv-devel] Any Update on TRAC Ticket 49 on DMA issues

2006-06-07 Thread Steven Ellis
Hans Verkuil wrote: On Tuesday 06 June 2006 11:47, Steven Ellis wrote: Got DMA errors and MPEG artifact/corruption appearing on my Hauppauge PVR 150 unit with the ivtv 0.4.4 driver. Looks like similar problems to trac issue 049. First - How can I login so I can update or add

[ivtv-devel] Any Update on TRAC Ticket 49 on DMA issues

2006-06-06 Thread Steven Ellis
Got DMA errors and MPEG artifact/corruption appearing on my Hauppauge PVR 150 unit with the ivtv 0.4.4 driver. Looks like similar problems to trac issue 049. First - How can I login so I can update or add to this ticket. Secondly - Any tips on how to best trouble shoot the issue when it

Re: [ivtv-devel] De-ghosting (GCR) support in IVTV driver?

2006-06-05 Thread Steven Ellis
Hans Verkuil wrote: On Monday 05 June 2006 13:29, Steven Ellis wrote: Hans Verkuil wrote: On Monday 05 June 2006 03:40, Steven Ellis wrote: Is there any support for de-ghosting signals within the IVTV tuners? A number of the tv stations in NZ include the extra information

[ivtv-devel] De-ghosting (GCR) support in IVTV driver?

2006-06-04 Thread Steven Ellis
Is there any support for de-ghosting signals within the IVTV tuners? A number of the tv stations in NZ include the extra information to help de-ghost a signal which would improve reception on a couple of channels quite considerably. Steve ___

Re: [ivtv-devel] Encoder Firmware 0x02050032 gives artifacts on

2006-05-18 Thread Steven Ellis
Hans Verkuil wrote: Hallo Hans! I've started work on this problem yesterday. I discovered that the MPEG data is placed at the correct memory location so the shift happens either in the DMA handling (most likely) or in the internal buffer handling of the driver. I can easily reproduce

Re: [ivtv-devel] PVR-500 quality vs PVR-150

2006-04-29 Thread Steven Ellis
Brad Benson wrote: On 4/27/06, *Steven Ellis* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Got a signal booster, and overall picture quality is fine. The odd thing is having the same wavy signal pattern on composite and tuner based capture. Are you by chance using

Re: [ivtv-devel] PVR-500 quality vs PVR-150

2006-04-27 Thread Steven Ellis
Chris Rouch wrote: On 4/25/06, Steven Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using the PAL models of these here in NZ and there are some major quality issues with the captures. Ok the tuners are different (38 on the 150 and 56 on the 500) but the 500 has a much better signal lock

[ivtv-devel] PVR-500 quality vs PVR-150

2006-04-25 Thread Steven Ellis
I've been using the PAL models of these here in NZ and there are some major quality issues with the captures. Ok the tuners are different (38 on the 150 and 56 on the 500) but the 500 has a much better signal lock overall. Problem is I get a diagonal wavy pattern across the picture with the 500,

Re: [ivtv-devel] KnoppMyth R5A22

2005-10-20 Thread Steven Ellis
Cecil Watson wrote: Hello Everyone, Get it while it is hot! http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=6497 Awesome. I was running the previous build with the ivtv 0.3.8 drivers. Time to upgrade. Steve ___ ivtv-devel mailing list

Re: [ivtv-devel] PVR-150 and dvd compliant audio

2005-10-10 Thread Steven Ellis
kevin thayer wrote: it's been awhile, but i'm pretty sure it's all mpeg-2.. no mp3 audio. you might need to capture at a different bitrate (44.1 khz vs 48?) I can use dvdauthor to produce a dvd based on the mpeg files generated from the PVR-150 but the audio won't work in any of my DVD

[ivtv-devel] PVR-150 and dvd compliant audio

2005-10-09 Thread Steven Ellis
Am I correct in assuming that the PVR-150 produces an MP3 audio stream as part of the MPEG produced on /dev/video0? Is this true of all of the PVR cards, and is there no way to get MP2 audio from the card. At the moment as part of my post capture edit with avidemux2 I have to convert the

[ivtv-devel] What max bitrate is the hardware capable of, and other bitrate questions.

2005-10-09 Thread Steven Ellis
Been trying to build up a series of profiles for doing different types of captures on my PVR-150. For example to get two or three 45 minute tv shows on a single DVD-R. Along the way i've noticed a couple of issues. In particular the average bitrate always seems to blow out a little bit high.

[ivtv-devel] Support for Yuan Falcon2 board?

2005-10-05 Thread Steven Ellis
Does ivtv 3.x work with this board http://www.yuan.com.tw/en/products/vdo_pg600-2.html Appears to be equivalent to the PVR-150 boards, but uses a silicon tuner. They also appear to do a dual tuner version. http://www.yuan.com.tw/en/products/vdo_pg670.html Cheers Steve

Re: [ivtv-devel] Is RAW video capture with ivtv possible

2005-10-04 Thread Steven Ellis
Bryan Mayland wrote: Steven Ellis wrote: kevin thayer wrote: you can get a yuv stream from the card. It is in a non-standard format, but mplayer can handle it. There may be other programs So how can I play it with mplayer? I've tried You have to tell mplayer that you've got rawvideo

Re: [ivtv-devel] Is RAW video capture with ivtv possible

2005-10-04 Thread Steven Ellis
Bryan Mayland wrote: Steven Ellis wrote: kevin thayer wrote: you can get a yuv stream from the card. It is in a non-standard format, but mplayer can handle it. There may be other programs So how can I play it with mplayer? I've tried You have to tell mplayer that you've got rawvideo

[ivtv-devel] Is RAW video capture with ivtv possible

2005-10-03 Thread Steven Ellis
Most of the time the MPEG-2 capture is adequate, but i'd like to be able to do the conversion using my own tools occasionally. I used to capture HUFFY or FFHUFFY video off my old saa7134 based analog card and encode it myself using tools like avidemux. When I was attempting to get quite a lot

Re: [ivtv-devel] Is RAW video capture with ivtv possible

2005-10-03 Thread Steven Ellis
of anyone using it. -tmk So how can I play it with mplayer? I've tried mplayer /dev/video32 which didn't work for me. Also how can I grab the audio and video in one hit? Steve --- Steven Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most of the time the MPEG-2 capture is adequate, but i'd like to be able