On Sat, 17 Jan 2009, Dhimiter Bozo wrote: > i've traditionally been a pc users but lately i've been playing around with > Ubuntu. i am in no way an expert but can certainly navigate around and get a > few things setup. i have the happaugue pvr usb2 capture card and am trying > to set it up. i've gone through your installiation instructions but still no > luck. i've got the driver installed and still not able to see the cable > streams. below is a list of pvr related modules that are loaded. i'm not > sure if that shows anything. i've also tried to send the stream to mplayer > but nothing. output for both are below. i was wondering if you would see > something that i have not been able to: > > dhimi...@linksys-ubuntu:~$ lsmod | grep pvrusb2 > pvrusb2 148032 0 > cx2341x 21124 2 ivtv,pvrusb2 > v4l2_common 19840 8 > cx8800,ivtv,bttv,wm8775,tuner,cx25840,pvrusb2,cx2341x > videodev 41344 6 cx8800,cx88xx,ivtv,bttv,tuner,pvrusb2 > v4l1_compat 22404 2 pvrusb2,videodev > tveeprom 20228 4 cx88xx,ivtv,bttv,pvrusb2 > i2c_core 31892 15 > cx88xx,ivtv,bttv,i2c_algo_bit,lirc_i2c,tuner_simple,tda9887,tda8290,wm8775,tuner,cx25840,pvrusb2,v4l2_common,tveeprom,nvidia > usbcore 148848 5 pvrusb2,btusb,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd >
That looks ok... > > > dhimi...@linksys-ubuntu:~$ mplayer /dev/video0 > mplayer: could not connect to socket > mplayer: Connection refused > Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote > control. > > Playing /dev/video0. > Cannot seek backward in linear streams! > Seek failed > Cannot seek backward in linear streams! > Seek failed > Cannot seek backward in linear streams! > Seek failed > .................................. [the above line is repeated multiple > times] > MPEG-PS file format detected. > VIDEO: MPEG2 720x480 (aspect 2) 29.970 fps 8000.0 kbps (1000.0 kbyte/s) > xscreensaver_disable: Could not find XScreenSaver window. > GNOME screensaver disabled > ========================================================================== > Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough > VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Mpeg PES) Hmm, it detected 720x480 so the driver has to be giving you a video stream. > Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale... > Opening video filter: [scale] > The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec. > Try appending the scale filter to your filter list, > e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp. > VDecoder init failed :( This is a strong clue that your mplayer setup isn't right. Do you have an mpeg2 file laying around that you can try to play? On the flip-side you should be able to cat /dev/video into a file and then play that with any tool that can understand mpeg. [...] -Mike -- Mike Isely isely @ pobox (dot) com PGP: 03 54 43 4D 75 E5 CC 92 71 16 01 E2 B5 F5 C1 E8 _______________________________________________ pvrusb2 mailing list [email protected] http://www.isely.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pvrusb2
