Re: Temporary success with Pinnacle PCTV 801e (xc5000 chip)

2009-05-25 Thread N Klepeis

Devin,   Yup, works nice now.   Good work!  --Neil

Devin Heitmueller wrote:

On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 5:15 PM, N Klepeis li...@klepeis.net wrote:

Hi,

I installed the latest v4l-dvb from CVS with the latest firmware
(dvb-fe-xc5000-1.6.114.fw) for the 801e (XC5000 chip).   I can  scan for
channels no problem.   But after a first use with either mplayer or mythtv,
it then immediately stops working and won't start again until I unplug and
then reinsert the device from the USB port.   On the first time use
everything seems fine and I can watch TV through mplayer for as long as I
want.On the 2nd use (restart mplayer), there's an error (FE_GET_INFO
error: 19, FD: 3).On the 2nd use with mythtv, mythtv cannot connect to
the card at all in mythtvsetup, but on the first time use I can assign
channel.conf.  I know there have been recent updates to the xc5000
driver.I only started trying this chip this week so I never confirmed
that any prior driver version worked.

Any thoughts on how to proceed? Below are the full console outputs when
using with mplayer and when running dmesg.   (This is fedora 10).

--Neil



Neil,

Already tracked down and a PULL has been requested for the patch:

http://kernellabs.com/hg/~dheitmueller/dvb-frontend-exit-fix

Cheers,

Devin



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Re: Temporary success with Pinnacle PCTV 801e (xc5000 chip)

2009-05-24 Thread Devin Heitmueller
On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 5:15 PM, N Klepeis li...@klepeis.net wrote:
 Hi,

 I installed the latest v4l-dvb from CVS with the latest firmware
 (dvb-fe-xc5000-1.6.114.fw) for the 801e (XC5000 chip).   I can  scan for
 channels no problem.   But after a first use with either mplayer or mythtv,
 it then immediately stops working and won't start again until I unplug and
 then reinsert the device from the USB port.       On the first time use
 everything seems fine and I can watch TV through mplayer for as long as I
 want.    On the 2nd use (restart mplayer), there's an error (FE_GET_INFO
 error: 19, FD: 3).    On the 2nd use with mythtv, mythtv cannot connect to
 the card at all in mythtvsetup, but on the first time use I can assign
 channel.conf.      I know there have been recent updates to the xc5000
 driver.    I only started trying this chip this week so I never confirmed
 that any prior driver version worked.

 Any thoughts on how to proceed?     Below are the full console outputs when
 using with mplayer and when running dmesg.   (This is fedora 10).

 --Neil


Neil,

Already tracked down and a PULL has been requested for the patch:

http://kernellabs.com/hg/~dheitmueller/dvb-frontend-exit-fix

Cheers,

Devin

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Temporary success with Pinnacle PCTV 801e (xc5000 chip)

2009-05-23 Thread N Klepeis

Hi,

I installed the latest v4l-dvb from CVS with the latest firmware 
(dvb-fe-xc5000-1.6.114.fw) for the 801e (XC5000 chip).   I can  scan for 
channels no problem.   But after a first use with either mplayer or 
mythtv, it then immediately stops working and won't start again until I 
unplug and then reinsert the device from the USB port.   On the 
first time use everything seems fine and I can watch TV through mplayer 
for as long as I want.On the 2nd use (restart mplayer), there's an 
error (FE_GET_INFO error: 19, FD: 3).On the 2nd use with mythtv, 
mythtv cannot connect to the card at all in mythtvsetup, but on the 
first time use I can assign channel.conf.  I know there have been 
recent updates to the xc5000 driver.I only started trying this chip 
this week so I never confirmed that any prior driver version worked.


Any thoughts on how to proceed? Below are the full console outputs 
when using with mplayer and when running dmesg.   (This is fedora 10).


--Neil


FIRE UP mplayer AND IT PLAYS TV FOR AS LONG AS I WANT:

[mythu...@mythbox ~]$ mplayer dvb://KTEH
MPlayer SVN-r28461-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400  @ 3.00GHz (Family: 6, Model: 
23, Stepping: 10)

mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote 
control.


Playing dvb://KTEH.
dvb_tune Freq: 539028615
TS file format detected.
VIDEO MPEG2(pid=65) AUDIO A52(pid=67) NO SUBS (yet)!  PROGRAM N. 0
VIDEO:  MPEG2  704x480  (aspect 2)  29.970 fps  2892.4 kbps (361.6 kbyte/s)
==
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 704 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Mpeg PES)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffmpeg2] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-2)
==
==
Opening audio decoder: [liba52] AC3 decoding with liba52
Using SSE optimized IMDCT transform
Using MMX optimized resampler
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 192.0 kbit/12.50% (ratio: 24000-192000)
Selected audio codec: [a52] afm: liba52 (AC3-liba52)
==
AO: [pulse] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample)
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 704 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.33:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xv] 704x480 = 704x528 Planar YV12
A:45262.2 V:45262.2 A-V: -0.006 ct: -0.704 2050/2047  4%  0%  0.4% 0 0 

demux_mpg: 24000/1001fps progressive NTSC content detected, switching 
framerate.
A:45276.4 V:45276.3 A-V:  0.043 ct: -0.659 2391/2388  4%  0%  0.4% 0 0 


demux_mpg: 3/1001fps NTSC content detected, switching framerate.
Warning! FPS changed 23.976 - 29.970  (-5.994005) [4]0%  0.4% 0 0 

a52: CRC check failed!0.002 ct: -0.603 2561/2558  4%  0%  0.3% 0 0 


a52: error at resampling
[mpeg2video @ 0x873c440]00 motion_type at 14 29/2581  4%  0%  0.5% 0 0 


[mpeg2video @ 0x873c440]mb incr damaged
[mpeg2video @ 0x873c440]ac-tex damaged at 4 14
[mpeg2video @ 0x873c440]slice mismatch
[mpeg2video @ 0x873c440]00 motion_type at 0 16
[mpeg2video @ 0x873c440]slice mismatch
[mpeg2video @ 0x873c440]00 motion_type at 14 18
[mpeg2video @ 0x873c440]00 motion_type at 0 19
[mpeg2video @ 0x873c440]00 motion_type at 0 20
[mpeg2video @ 0x873c440]00 motion_type at 0 21
[mpeg2video @ 0x873c440]00 motion_type at 0 22
[mpeg2video @ 0x873c440]00 motion_type at 0 23
[mpeg2video @ 0x873c440]00 motion_type at 0 24
[mpeg2video @ 0x873c440]00 motion_type at 0 25
[mpeg2video @ 0x873c440]00 motion_type at 0 26
[mpeg2video @ 0x873c440]00 motion_type at 6 28
[mpeg2video @ 0x873c440]00 motion_type at 0 29
[mpeg2video @ 0x873c440]Warning MVs not available
[mpeg2video @ 0x873c440]concealing 792 DC, 792 AC, 792 MV errors
A:46603.5 V:46603.5 A-V: -0.001 ct: -0.594 42141/42138  4%  0%  4.6% 0 0 


Exiting... (Quit)


AFTER QUITTING, TRY AGAIN AND IT FAILS:

[mythu...@mythbox ~]$ mplayer dvb://KTEH
MPlayer SVN-r28461-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400  @ 3.00GHz (Family: 6, Model: 
23, Stepping: 10)

mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote 
control.


Playing dvb://KTEH.
FE_GET_INFO error: 19, FD: 3

DVB CONFIGURATION IS EMPTY, exit
Failed to open dvb://KTEH.


Exiting... (End of file)


WON'T START