Markus Wittenberg wrote: > Duncan Webb schrieb: >> Markus Wittenberg wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> I'm using ubuntu, freevo, nxtvepg and a Hauppauge PVR 350 tv card on >>> a VIA Epia M board. Every thing works fine so far. But I have two >>> problems. Well I think these are no freevo problems, but maybe you >>> have the right solution or idea. >>> >>> 1. After watching tv with freevo nxtvepg works fine. I guess ivtv or >>> v4l2 or whatever are correct initialized then. I want to use nxtvepg >>> as daemon but after booting the machine something isn't initialized >>> correct, because nxtvepg starts 'forced passive'. In this case >>> watching tv with freevo doesn't work, too. In main-1000.log freevo >>> says 'Device or resource busy'. Any idea what to do at startup so >>> that nxtvepg works fine? >>> >>> 2. I thought that running nxtvepg as daemon and recording tv with >>> freevo should work properly. But I noticed that nxtvepg switches back >>> to the channel it needs for aquisition. This destroys the current >>> recording, because the wrong channel is recorded. >>> >>> At the moment the best thing I can do is to run nxtvepg manually when >>> nothing is recorded by freevo. Of course first I have to start (and >>> stop) watching tv with freevo I may start nxtvepg. >>> >>> Someone with the same experiances and a nice solution? >> >> I use nxtvepg and freevo but have a second tv bttv card for the purpose. >> >> For one tuner is should be possible to set the acquisition mode to >> external so it does not touch the TV tuner. Combining this with an >> action of setting the tuner to a particular channel (Kabel 1) after >> recording (VCR_POST_REC is the local_conf.py variable) it should be >> possible to use both. >> >> HTH >> Duncan > > Hi Duncan > > Starting nxtvepg with external aquisition seems to work. Thanks for this > hint. I configured VCR_POST_REC that way: > > VCR_POST_REC = 'ivtv-tune -f 559.250' > > But I'm not sure if VCR_POST_REC does the correct job. When I call > ivtv-tune -f 559.250 from the console, nxtvepg starts aquisition a few > moments later. But it doesn't start automatically when recording has > finished. I will do some more tests. > > And I still have the problem that nxtvepg hangs when I start it as > daemon after reboot, because something - may be the tv card - isn't > initialized correct.
Try wrapping the ivtv-tune -f 559.250 command in an execuatable batch script. I'm not sure if VCR_POST_REC will handle arguments correctly. Duncan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
