On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Mike Isely <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, 14 May 2010, Asif Iqbal wrote: > >> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:26 AM, Asif Iqbal <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I just bought a hauppauge wintv pvr usb2. When I plugged it into my >> > ubuntu 10.04 I got all the indication that >> > the device is recognized >> > >> > http://pastie.org/private/aatmacucv2qenp2qk95pfq >> > >> > I have the camcorder running into the composite input. >> > >> > I were able to only once get video with vlc >> > >> > vlc stream:///dev/video0 >> > >> > found the trick on http://www.isely.net/pvrusb2/usage.html. Thanks Mike >> > Isely! >> > >> > After that the same vlc stream only giving a green screen. >> > >> > Am I experiencing any bug? >> > >> > And I definitely not getting any audio. I have both RCA input (L/R) going >> > into >> > the PVR but only one coming RCA output (L) coming out from camcorder. >> >> I am running >> >> iqb...@ghar-iqbala:~$ uname -a >> Linux ghar-iqbala 2.6.32-22-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 28 13:27:30 >> UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux >> > > Asif: > > You didn't say which kind of device you purchased however I see from the
http://www.amazon.com/Hauppauge-WinTV-PVR-USB-Tuner-Personal-Video-Recorder/dp/B0000AL8XX/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1274056344&sr=8-1 > link you provided with the kernel log output that it's one of the > original 29032 devices. That's fine; it should work. I have in fact > recently tested and verified that it *still* works, provided you don't > get burned by the first problem in this list: > > http://www.isely.net/pvrusb2/pvrusb2.html#Bugs > > However what you describe definitely does not sound like that > initialization issue so I can't suggest what is going wrong there. If > you got it to work once, it should work every single time. In addition, > if you are getting video then the sound should be good as well. Way /dev/video0 gave the audio that one time it worked. what would be the sound device? should it be /dev/dsp. I will try to see if that has any audio. > back when xawtv was routinely used, it would mute the audio output on > exit - which could cause confusion later. You might want to check that > the audio isn't muted (look at the sysfs control for that). > > The only other thing I can think of is that the hardware defective, but > having that happen is pretty rare - the only hardware issues I've > really heard of over the years involve overheating the device and > in that case it will usually completely crash. > > -Mike > > > -- > > Mike Isely > isely @ isely (dot) net > 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 > > -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? _______________________________________________ pvrusb2 mailing list [email protected] http://www.isely.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pvrusb2
