Mike Isely wrote: > On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Phudgee wrote: > > >> I'm not sure what I need to do. I've tried many other TV apps (TvTime, >> KDETV, kplayer) and they all have issues, so I'm inclined to think it's >> something with the driver install, and not so much a particular application. >> > > TvTime will likely never work with this driver, due to the fact that it > does not handle mpeg decoding. > > KDETV is primarily a DVB application not a V4L application. I've heard > that it can be coaxed to work, but I would not use that to judge the > configuration of the driver. > > >> Does anyone have any suggestions, as to how I can get this working? >> > > If you just plugged the device in and then ran mplayer, then who knows > what the heck you are tuning. The driver will start in TV mode with the > frequency set to correspond to US broadcast channel 7, however if there > is no such station in your area (or you don't have an antenna connected) > then you're going to have problems. You need to tune the device. > > If tuning problems are suspected, consider trying the composite or > s-video input. (Hook up a VCR or a DVD player to that input.) That > operates downstream of the RF section so if you can get that to work > then you know that the remaining problem(s) are tuning related. You can > use the sysfs interface to control the input selection. > > The fact that the driver is reporting successful initialization is a > good sign. For that to happen the driver has to be successfully talking > to the device and both the FX2 and the encoder's firmware had to have > been successfully loaded. You might still have issues with some of the > chip-level drivers that need to attach, but a cursory glance at your > log output suggests that the right modules are connecting into the > driver for a 24xxx device. > > Another thing you can do is just "cat /dev/video >/tmp/foo.mpg". Then > from another window see if that file's size is growing. If mplayer is > sticking then I would expect this file to remain at 0 bytes, but if the > file is getting data then I would start looking at your mplayer > configuration. Note also that you can of course then take /tmp/foo.mpg > and just pump that into mplayer later. > > -Mike > > Thanks for the info.
I'm not familiar with sysfs so I'll do some reading on that. I did however 'cat /dev/video >/tmp/foo.mpg' and the file size just sat at 0 bytes. CJ _______________________________________________ pvrusb2 mailing list [email protected] http://www.isely.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pvrusb2
