RE: [mythtv-users] PVR350 Audio problems . . sigh

[mythtv-users]

Asciimonster Wrote:

> Lischka wrote:
> 
> >I bought a PVR-350 and tried it out on my main desktop setting up 
> >Knoppmyth on a partition on an old 40Gb disk that was lying 
> around).  
> >This went reasonably well although I had a lot of trouble setting up 
> >the UK tv grabber.  After many abortive attempts, the Knoppmyth hard 
> >disk failed, so I tried again under Gentoo (my main distro). 
>  Again I 
> >got pretty close to where I wanted to be, but a different set of 
> >problems (2.6.4 and lirc didnt seem to be compatible).  
> Anyway, I got 
> >some TV shows successfully recorded, and even got myth 
> through TV-Out 
> >onto the TV screen.
> >
> >Has anyone got any ideas what to try next?
> >
> >Any more diagnostic info to give me a clue as to what is wrong?
> >
> >Oh yes, I tried compiling the latest ivtv-0.3.2a drivers but 
> it made no 
> >difference.
> >
> With the 0.1 versions, I had intermittently sound and no 
> sound with my 
> Myth box. I used this hack which worked for me:
> 
> /usr/local/bin/test_ioctl -v input=7,output=1 
> /usr/local/bin/test_ioctl -v input=2,output=2
> 
> The 0.3 versions are experimental (that means unstable) at 
> the moment. 
> Better try 0.2.0rc3c. ___

All very well and good but the pvr-350 doesn't (or didn't)
work with X over the tv out with 0.2.0rc3c and FC3

I'm running kernel 2.6.9-1.681_FC3 and 0.3.1z (patched for ivtv-fb on
2.6.9 kernels)

One (stupid) thing I did was expect the sound to come out of the
soundcard,
If you're using the tv out of the pvr-350 the sound comes out of that
too.

Have you tried cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg then playing it back (on
another machine
maybe that's known to playback with sound)?

Also make 1% sure you are using the correct msp3400.ko, do the
following to check:

cd /lib/modules/2.6.9-1.681_FC3
find . -print | grep msp34

Check to see what is loaded by

lsmod | grep msp

Check to see what will be loaded by doing 

modprobe -l | grep msp

The FIRST one in this list will be loaded.

FWIW the line I use in my crontab (and works) for mythfilldatabase in
the UK is 
(skipping the actual time to run)

/usr/bin/tv_grab_uk_rt --config-file
/home/mythtv/.mythtv/Terrestrial.xmltv | /usr/bin/mythfilldatabase
--update --file 1 -1 -

I have had mythtv up and running fine but at the moment mythbackend
keeps 
crashing (an issue I believe is due to the xfs journaling partition I
have 
/video on) but more importantly the box has just started to keep
crashing[0][1][2] 
and I need to sort that out before I start playing with mythtv again :-(

HTH

Druid

[0] Up for 20days+ now crashing up to twice a day, I'm not sure if it's
something I've
done or something's broken. :-(
[1] With no error messages anywhere :-(
[2] I'm trying stress testing it with various things to confirm the 
hardware + O/S is stable but I suspect it's hardware :-(









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Re: [mythtv-users] PVR350 Audio problems . . sigh

[Asciimonster]

Lischka wrote:
I bought a PVR-350 and tried it out on my main desktop setting up Knoppmyth
on a partition on an old 40Gb disk that was lying around).  This went
reasonably well although I had a lot of trouble setting up the UK tv
grabber.  After many abortive attempts, the Knoppmyth hard disk failed, so I
tried again under Gentoo (my main distro).  Again I got pretty close to
where I wanted to be, but a different set of problems (2.6.4 and lirc didnt
seem to be compatible).  Anyway, I got some TV shows successfully recorded,
and even got myth through TV-Out onto the TV screen.
Has anyone got any ideas what to try next?
Any more diagnostic info to give me a clue as to what is wrong?
Oh yes, I tried compiling the latest ivtv-0.3.2a drivers but it made no
difference.
With the 0.1 versions, I had intermittently sound and no sound with my 
Myth box. I used this hack which worked for me:

/usr/local/bin/test_ioctl -v input=7,output=1
/usr/local/bin/test_ioctl -v input=2,output=2
The 0.3 versions are experimental (that means unstable) at the moment. 
Better try 0.2.0rc3c.
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[mythtv-users] PVR350 Audio problems . . sigh

[Lischka]

I started out about a year ago trying to set up Mythtv.
This is my story . . . .

I bought a PVR-350 and tried it out on my main desktop setting up Knoppmyth
on a partition on an old 40Gb disk that was lying around).  This went
reasonably well although I had a lot of trouble setting up the UK tv
grabber.  After many abortive attempts, the Knoppmyth hard disk failed, so I
tried again under Gentoo (my main distro).  Again I got pretty close to
where I wanted to be, but a different set of problems (2.6.4 and lirc didnt
seem to be compatible).  Anyway, I got some TV shows successfully recorded,
and even got myth through TV-Out onto the TV screen.

Wife started complaining at the delay and mess in the living room, so I
decided to buy exactly the right kit for use with Jarod's guide.

My kit is:

Pundit-R and onboard ethernet, sound and graphics
Capture card PVR-350
DVD: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R1002, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Fedora Core 3 2.6.9-1.681_FC3

Install went as planned using the Jarod guide, until I got to setting up the
PVR-350.
Unfortunately I can capture live TV with good video, but no sound.
I can play MP3s, DVDs even the old Mythtv recorded .nuv files all with full
sound and vision, but sound capture no longer works.

I have tried apt-get remove ivtv and reinstalled
I removed all mention of msp3400.ko and copied the msp3400-ivtv.ko to the
updates and kernel folders

I have depmodded and rebooted in all possible combinations of the above.

my msp3400.ko is here:

/lib/modules/2.6.9-1.681_FC3/kernel/drivers/media/video/msp3400.ko
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 29364 Jan  2 11:11

Has anyone got any ideas what to try next?

Any more diagnostic info to give me a clue as to what is wrong?

Oh yes, I tried compiling the latest ivtv-0.3.2a drivers but it made no
difference.

Could I be doing something really dumb?

Details from dmesg:

+
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
ivtv: no version for "struct_module" found: kernel tainted.
ivtv:  START INIT IVTV 
ivtv: version 0.1.10 (0.1.10-48.4_pre2_ck100zz.rhfc3.at) loading
ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.9-1.681_FC3 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-3.4
ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info
ivtv: between the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines when
ivtv: mailing the ivtv-devel mailinglist.
ivtv: Autodetected WinTV PVR 350 card
ivtv: Found an iTVC15 based chip
ACPI: PCI interrupt :02:09.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ivtv: pci: PCIBUS detected device: 0x5833 vendor: 0x1002
tveeprom: Ignoring new-style parameters in presence of obsolete ones
tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 48135, rev = J324, serial# = 6815394
tveeprom: tuner = Philips FM1246 (idx = 24, type = 1)
tveeprom: tuner fmt = PAL(I) (eeprom = 0x10, v4l2 = 0x0010)
tveeprom: audio_processor = CS5331 (type = 9)
ivtv: i2c attach [client=tveeprom[0],ok]
ivtv: Tuner Type 1, Tuner formats 0x0010, Radio: yes, Model 0x00a93494,
Revision 0x0001
ivtv: PAL tuner detected
ivtv: Radio detected
tuner: Ignoring new-style parameters in presence of obsolete ones
tuner: chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver #0
ivtv: i2c attach [client=(tuner unset),ok]
saa7115: Ignoring new-style parameters in presence of obsolete ones
saa7115: starting probe for adapter ivtv i2c driver #0 (0x10005)
saa7115: detecting saa7115 client on address 0x42
saa7115: writing init values
ivtv: i2c attach [client=saa7115[0],ok]
saa7115: status: (1E) 0x10, (1F) 0xc0
saa7127: Ignoring new-style parameters in presence of obsolete ones
saa7127: video encoder driver version V 0.3 loaded
saa7127: Selecting NTSC video Standard
saa7127: Selecting S-Video+Composite
saa7127: Turn WSS off
saa7127: Widescreen Mode 4:3 Full Format
saa7127: Selecting Normal Encoder Input
saa7127: Enable Video Output
ivtv: i2c attach [client=saa7127[0],ok]
msp3400: Ignoring new-style parameters in presence of obsolete ones
msp34xx: ivtv version
msp34xx: init: chip=MSP3418W-A2, has NICAM support, simple (D) mode, simpler
(G) no-thread mode
msp34xx: $Id$ compiled on: Dec  5 2004 20:33:09
ivtv: i2c attach [client=MSP3418W-A2,ok]
ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02040024
ivtv: Decoder revision: 0x02020023
ivtv: Configuring WinTV PVR 350 card with 9 streams
ivtv: Create DMA stream 0 using 128 buffers of size 32768
ivtv: Create DMA stream 1 using 128 buffers of size 32768
ivtv: Create stream 2 using 128 buffers of size 52224
ivtv: Create DMA stream 3 using 128 buffers of size 32768
ivtv: Create stream 4
ivtv: Create DMA stream 5 using 16 buffers of size 32768
ivtv: Create stream 6 using 128 buffers of size 4096
ivtv: Create stream 7
ivtv: Create DMA stream 8 using 16 buffers of size 32768
ivtv: Setting Tuner 1
tuner: type set to 1 (Philips PAL_I (FI1246 and compatibles)) by ivtv i2c
driver #0
ivtv: Setting audio matrix to input 3, output 1
ivtv: Switching standard to PAL.
saa7115: decoder set norm PAL
saa7115: set audio: 0x01
saa7127: Setting Encoder Video Standard
saa7127: Set PAL Video Mode
saa7127: Selecting PAL video Standard