On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 5:39 PM, George Adams<g_adam...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hello again. I have some updates now that I've been able to make some > further tests. > > 1) My Pinnacle PCTV HD Pro (800e) stick does, in fact, work correctly under > Windows. The scanning detects the one channel we're running over our closed > circuit cable (channel 3) and displays it on-screen just fine. (audio over > channel 3 works as well) > > > 2) Devin, my installation process is "hg clone http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb; > cd v4l-dvb; make rminstall; make distclean; make; make install" This appears > to install everything v4l-related as modules in the appropriate directories. > For instance: > >> uname -r > 2.6.24-24-server > >> find /lib/modules/`uname -r` -type f -name em28xx\* -o -name tvp\* > /lib/modules/2.6.24-24-server/kernel/drivers/media/video/tvp5150.ko > /lib/modules/2.6.24-24-server/kernel/drivers/media/video/em28xx/em28xx.ko > /lib/modules/2.6.24-24-server/kernel/drivers/media/video/em28xx/em28xx-dvb.ko > > > 3) tvtime still hangs when launched. > > > 4) Running zapping gives the error "VBI Initialization failed. /dev/vbi0 > (Pinnacle PCTV HD Pro) is not a raw vbi device)". Continuing on and trying > to choose the "Preferences" menu option segfaults the program (and this is > the Ubuntu-distributed "zapping" package) > > > 5) Running Paul's suggested "mplayer" command gives the following: > >> mplayer -vo xv tv:// -tv >> driver=v4l2:alsa:immediatemode=0:adevice=hw.1,0:norm=ntsc:chanlist=us-cable:channel=3 > > MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.2.4 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team > CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9550 @ 2.83GHz (Family: 6, Model: 23, > Stepping: 10) > CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 > Compiled with runtime CPU detection. > 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 tv://. > TV file format detected. > Selected driver: v4l2 > name: Video 4 Linux 2 input > author: Martin Olschewski > comment: first try, more to come ;-) > Selected device: Pinnacle PCTV HD Pro Stick > Tuner cap: > Tuner rxs: > Capabilites: video capture tuner audio read/write streaming > supported norms: 0 = NTSC; 1 = NTSC-M; 2 = NTSC-M-JP; 3 = NTSC-M-KR; 4 = > NTSC-443; 5 = PAL; 6 = PAL-BG; 7 = PAL-H; 8 = PAL-I; 9 = PAL-DK; 10 = PAL-M; > 11 = PAL-N; 12 = PAL-Nc; 13 = PAL-60; 14 = SECAM; > inputs: 0 = Television; 1 = Composite1; 2 = S-Video; > Current input: 0 > Current format: YUYV > v4l2: current audio mode is : MONO > v4l2: ioctl set format failed: Invalid argument > v4l2: ioctl set format failed: Invalid argument > v4l2: ioctl set format failed: Invalid argument > Selected channel: 3 (freq: 61.250) > Video buffer shorter than 3 times audio frame duration. > You will probably experience heavy framedrops. > v4l2: ioctl query control failed: Invalid argument > v4l2: ioctl query control failed: Invalid argument > v4l2: ioctl query control failed: Invalid argument > v4l2: ioctl query control failed: Invalid argument > xscreensaver_disable: Could not find XScreenSaver window. > GNOME screensaver disabled > ========================================================================== > Opening video decoder: [raw] RAW Uncompressed Video > VDec: vo config request - 640 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Packed YUY2) > VDec: using Packed YUY2 as output csp (no 0) > Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied. > VO: [xv] 640x480 => 640x480 Packed YUY2 > Selected video codec: [rawyuy2] vfm: raw (RAW YUY2) > ========================================================================== > ========================================================================== > Forced audio codec: mad > Opening audio decoder: [pcm] Uncompressed PCM audio decoder > AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 1 ch, s16le, 705.6 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 88200->88200) > Selected audio codec: [pcm] afm: pcm (Uncompressed PCM) > ========================================================================== > AO: [pulse] 44100Hz 1ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) > Starting playback... > v4l2: select timeout > A: 0.5 V: 0.0 A-V: 0.472 ct: 0.000 1/ 1 ??% ??% ??,?% 1 0 [[JMA: > 0.9 V: 0.0 A-V: 0.940 ct: 0.003 2/ 2 ??% ??% ??,?% 2 0 [[JMv4l2: > select timeout > A: 1.5 V: 0.0 A-V: 1.479 ct: 0.007 3/ 3 ??% ??% ??,?% 3 0 [[JMA: > 2.0 V: 0.0 A-V: 1.981 ct: 0.010 4/ 4 ??% ??% ??,?% 4 0 [[JMv4l2: > select timeout > A: 2.5 V: 0.0 A-V: 2.485 ct: 0.013 5/ 5 ??% ??% ??,?% 5 0 [[JMA: > 3.0 V: 0.0 A-V: 2.957 ct: 0.017 6/ 6 ??% ??% ??,?% 6 0 [[JMv4l2: > select timeout > A: 3.5 V: 0.0 A-V: 3.460 ct: 0.020 7/ 7 ??% ??% ??,?% 7 0 [[JMA: > 4.0 V: 0.0 A-V: 3.956 ct: 0.022 8/ 8 ??% ??% ??,?% 8 0 [[JMv4l2: > select timeout > A: 4.5 V: 0.0 A-V: 4.460 ct: 0.025 9/ 9 ??% ??% ??,?% 9 0 [[JMA: > 5.0 V: 0.0 A-V: 4.956 ct: 0.027 10/ 10 ??% ??% ??,?% 10 0 [[JMv4l2: > select timeout > > > The Mplayer screen itself remains green the whole time. > > > So the surprise to me is that the Pinnacle device is not actually broken. By > this point, I had been sure it was a hardware problem. Now I realize that > it's something else. And so I would again appreciate any suggestions you > might have. Thank you once again! > > (My installation process, just for reference, distilled down:) >> cd /usr/local/src >> hg clone http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb >> cd v4l-dvb >> make rminstall; make distclean; make; make install >> cd /tmp >> wget >> http://www.steventoth.net/linux/xc5000/HVR-12x0-14x0-17x0_1_25_25271_WHQL.zip >> unzip -j HVR-12x0-14x0-17x0_1_25_25271_WHQL.zip Driver85/hcw85bda.sys >> perl /usr/local/src/v4l-dvb/linux/Documentation/video4linux/extract_xc3028.pl >> mv xc3028-v27.fw /lib/firmware/xc3028-v27.fw > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Hotmail® has ever-growing storage! Don’t worry about storage limits. > http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Storage?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_Storage_062009
Ok, here's something to try. I assume you are rebooting the box, keeping the stick plugged in. Please unplug the device, plug it back in, and then post the full dmesg output. Devin -- Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs http://www.kernellabs.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
