I finally purchased some additional equipment to build a slave backend/frontend system to go with my existing backend/frontend mythtv system.
For the new box I will be using a PVR-350 for output to the TV as well as a PVR-500 for additional encoders. Using an ECS 760GX-M Socket 754 SiS 760 GX Micro ATX AMD motherboard. So far this has worked very nicely, FC4 loaded with no problems, the SATA controller was recognized just fine and the Plextor PX-740A/SW-BL had no problem booting and loading the OS. Only complaint is that when using KDE and the on board video I get line artifacts sometimes when moving windows around. Shortly this will be a non issue as I plan to using the PVR-350 output for X to the TV. Following Jarod's excellent guide to load and configure this system. The PVR-350 was recognized and I was able to get ivtv loaded and input/output on the PVR-350 is working just fine. My past experience getting the PVR-350 working on the first box helped. :) The test using: dd if=/dev/video0 of=/dev/video16 bs=64k worked just fine. Best I can tell video0 is the encoder on the PVR-350. Derived from the following: ivtv: Initialized WinTV PVR 350, card #0 ivtv: Initialized WinTV PVR 150, card #1 ivtv: Initialized WinTV PVR 150, card #2 00:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC15 MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01) Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV PVR-350 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11 Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M] Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 02:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01) Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc.: Unknown device e807 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10 Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M] Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 02:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01) Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc.: Unknown device e817 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 3 Memory at e4000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M] Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 I can see /dev/video0 /dev/video1 and /dev/video2 on the system. As such I expected that I should have been able to run the following test: dd if=/dev/video1 of=/dev/video16 bs=64k or dd if=/dev/video2 of=/dev/video16 bs=64k However on the first one (video1) the initial test I just had static. I thought that might be due to not having the channel set correctly. So I tried: /usr/bin/ivtvctl -d /dev/video1 -p 0 I tried values 0 through 8. 6 appears to be the one that shows the static. All other settings resulted in a blank screen. I also tried using the /usr/lib/ivtv/ptune-ui.pl program to change the channels. This worked for the /dev/video0 (PVR-350) input but not for the /dev/video1 or /dev/vidoe2 inputs. Same results running the test using mplayer -vo xv /dev/video0 | video1 | video2. I believe I pulled the latest ivtv drivers from atrpms testing repo: vtv-firmware-enc-2.04.024-4.at ivtv-0.3.7k-96.rhfc4.at ivtv-kmdl-2.6.12-1.1447_FC4-0.3.7k-96.rhfc4.at perl-Video-ivtv-0.13-7.rhfc4.at ivtv-firmware-audio-0.0.1-1.at ivtv-firmware-dec-2.02.023-4.at So my question is: is the test I am trying to run invalid? Or have I missed a configuration step with the PVR-500 encoders? I also don't see any major differences running ivtvctl -a against each of the encoders: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ivtvctl -d /dev/video0 -a ioctl IVTV_IOC_G_CODEC ok Codec parameters aspect : 2 audio : 0x00e9 bframes : 3 bitrate_mode: 0 bitrate : 8000000 bitrate_peak: 9600000 dnr_mode : 0 dnr_spatial : 0 dnr_temporal: 8 dnr_type : 0 framerate : 0 framespergop: 15 gop_closure : 1 pulldown : 0 stream_type : 14 ioctl VIDIOC_G_FMT ok Type : Video Capture Width : 720 Height : 480 ioctl VIDIOC_QUERYCAP ok Driver name : ivtv Card type : WinTV PVR 350 Bus info : 0000:00:09.0 Driver version: 775 Capabilities : 0x01070033 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ivtvctl -d /dev/video1 -a ioctl IVTV_IOC_G_CODEC ok Codec parameters aspect : 2 audio : 0x00e9 bframes : 3 bitrate_mode: 0 bitrate : 8000000 bitrate_peak: 9600000 dnr_mode : 0 dnr_spatial : 0 dnr_temporal: 8 dnr_type : 0 framerate : 0 framespergop: 15 gop_closure : 1 pulldown : 0 stream_type : 14 ioctl VIDIOC_G_FMT ok Type : Video Capture Width : 720 Height : 480 ioctl VIDIOC_QUERYCAP ok Driver name : ivtv Card type : WinTV PVR 150 Bus info : 0000:02:08.0 Driver version: 775 Capabilities : 0x01070011 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ivtvctl -d /dev/video2 -a ioctl IVTV_IOC_G_CODEC ok Codec parameters aspect : 2 audio : 0x00e9 bframes : 3 bitrate_mode: 0 bitrate : 8000000 bitrate_peak: 9600000 dnr_mode : 0 dnr_spatial : 0 dnr_temporal: 8 dnr_type : 0 framerate : 0 framespergop: 15 gop_closure : 1 pulldown : 0 stream_type : 14 ioctl VIDIOC_G_FMT ok Type : Video Capture Width : 720 Height : 480 ioctl VIDIOC_QUERYCAP ok Driver name : ivtv Card type : WinTV PVR 150 Bus info : 0000:02:09.0 Driver version: 775 Capabilities : 0x01030011
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