Will the method below work with a PVR150mce on fc4? I just want check before I try it. call me chicken if you want
cheers David M -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 10 August 2005 5:20 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] ivtv driver update This is my routine: ivtv installation: 1) Get the latest drivers (ivtv.tv/releases) and unpack the tarball. 2) Descend into the "driver" directory. In this directory, type > make > sudo make install (I generally do these as a reg. user). FWIW I also follow this with > sudo /sbin/depmod 3) Leave "driver" and go into "utils" directory. From here, > make > sudo make install 4) From the same utils directory, also type the command > sudo install -c -m 0444 ivtvdev_drv_o /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/ivtvdev_drv.o (Of course the above assumes you would have already had XF86Config setup properly to do X framebuffer through the PVR350, etc. You should have a device section in XF86Config that vaguely looks like Section "Device" Identifier "Hauppauge WinTV PVR 350, model 990" Driver "ivtvdev" Option "fbdev" "/dev/fb1" Option "ivtv" "/dev/fb1" Option "VideoOverlay" "on" Option "XVideo" "1" BusID "[your device]" EndSection It also assumes you have your modules.conf and whatnot setup previously as well.) If you have a 64-bit system, you have to get a different ivtvdev_drv_o or compile one yourself. Another step that is needed: Due to some weirdness, in your startup scripts, you have to initialize the yuv decoder by sending a short mpeg video file to /dev/video16. You can record such a file once with > dd if=/dev/video0 of=startup.mpg bs=64k count=50 then, during initialization scripts, run > dd if=startup.mpg of=/dev/video16 bs=64k count=50 after you've loaded the ivtv modules. Also, if you are having a problem with X burning all your spare CPU time when idle (~97% when the machine is otherwise not doing anything) I cured it by starting and killing a dummy X session before starting my main X session. This is not YUV related, but just a thought. Perhaps I could save a few kilowatt-hours out there by mentioning it. ;) I do this with a startup command like su - --command="/usr/X11R6/bin/xinit /usr/bin/xterm -e \"sleep 2; echo Welcome. ; sleep 0.5; exit\" -- /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg :1 -layout \"Hauppauge Layout\"" mythtv in my scripts. The "su" stuff is so that I run the command as the mythtv user instead of root. Now, just go to Myth's setup for TV Playback and turn off the setting for "use the PVR 350's decoder". Watch it spin! Audio will now come out of your sound card. (If you do this with the 0.3.7b+ driver, your xv/yuv output shouldn't have tearing.) You can play recorded TV, DVDs, transcoded recordings, even .wmvs, .avis, .mpegs, etc. Also, it's more responsive seeking- and skipping-wise than using the HW decoder. The only thing I don't like about the 0.3.7b version of this with yuv/xv is that there is a very subtle video sync problem, which leads to a slight "jerkiness" in the video. It's not always so obvious, but if something big moves across the screen slowly you'll see it. This doesn't happen with the HW decoder. If you panic/don't like the new driver/it won't work/help how do I revert back to my previous drivers? you can simply turn the PVR decoder back on in myth. If the driver is still no good, you should simply be able to follow steps 1-4 only using the tarball of the version you want to revert to. I have reverted a few times and it is all good. I don't use FC or Jarod's Guide so I don't know how this relates. I also don't know how this affects XMame. Of course YMMV! I do not warrant the above information at all, so if it hoses your system don't sue me! --- Marty Ravell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 15:02 +1000, Marty Ravell > wrote: > > > So, in my usual foolish way of not letting good > enough alone I am > > > considering going down the route of upgrading my > ivtv drivers (0.3.7b > > > possibly). Mainly this is so I can try to get > XMame up and running on > > > my FC3, 350 rig. My current setup is straight > from Jarod?s guide. So > > > my question to the list is this. Is there a good > how-to on the > > > procedure for taking a stock ?Jarod?s Guide? > machine to new ivtv > > > drivers? > > > > > > > > > > > > I?m looking at the ivtv site and although there > are some instructions > > > on compiling up drivers from source I was > wondering if there is > > > perhaps a simpler way? > > > > I did this a few days ago. It's really quite > straight forward. configure > > && make && make install. Nothing to it. I was > impressed. New drivers > > work great. They lock up about every 10th viewing > or so, but I can watch > > DVDs via XV, so I'm happy. > > > > So, did you follow a particular site for this or > just go via the > instructions in the ivtv FAQ? > > I'd like to understand the process fairly well so I > can back-out if I manage > to screw things up. > > Already I see that some of the paths mentioned in > the FAQ are different to > what is on my box. Any hints? > > > -- > Jesse Guardiani > Programmer/Sys Admin > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users