[mythtv-users] DirecTV Receiver Recommendations?
Hi, all. I've been using my MythTV setup off and on, but now I'm looking for a better DirecTV receiver. The original one I have from the first DirecTV installation is extremely old. I'd like to get something that can handle channel changer signal inputs from my computer/PVR-350 for my U.S. (NTSC) configuration, but also be reasonably inexpensive if possible. The most important reason why I'm asking is because of all the ivtv tuner= types out there. It would be great if someone can recommend a brand/version that matches a specific tuner type which I can cable up and get working without a bunch of excess testing. Any advice anyone can offer would be great. Thanks! --Matt ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] DirecTV Receiver Recommendations?
David George wrote: Any advice anyone can offer would be great. Thanks! http://mythhd.info/directv.html Awesome, thanks, David! I didn't find this page in the Google searches. I've been alternating the audio/s-video use of my PVR-350, so I've been using tuner inputs in the near term, but you're right, I don't need it. Thanks again! --Matt ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Re: Jarod's HOWTO for FC3/PVR-350/X - Please Keep Online
Actually, I went back last night and verified that 2.6.8-1.521 resolves the ivtv-fb crashes for TV-Out with PVR-350s, but it doesn't fix the X through TV-Out problems. So something definitely changed to correct things. I'd imagine all the fbcon changes had something to do with it, but I haven't gone through the diffs yet (there are a few there in doing a brief viewing of the tree). I also re-built the 2.6.9-1.681 kernel with CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE (in fact, all CONFIG_*_CONSOLE parameters) set to 'm'. I then tried 0.2.0-rc3b and the current ck100zz drivers, and also tried ivtvdev_drv.o at 0.6 and 0.7. Nothing's worked so far as far as the X problem is concerned. I'm going to work forward on the X revision lists between FC2 and FC3 (last known) and see if there's something there now. --Matt On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, Hugo van der Kooij wrote: |On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, David Smith wrote: | | The problem most of us are having can be traced back to the 2.6.9 | kernels. I believe there were a number of kernel changes related to the | framebuffer that cause issues with the packaged ivtv 0.1.0 and 0.2.0. The | 2.6.8-1.521 kernel appears to be the last packaged kernel that Jarod's | guide works well against. However, the older kernels are no longer | available (at least that I can find) and ivtv development hasn't caught up | with newer packaged kernels. Well, maybe in CVS it has. | |Hmm. Bug entries like these will make it unwanted as well: |https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=130576 | |I would hate to loose CD writing capabilities. | |But I think a note to Arjan could do the trick of getting access tot the |proper kernel package. | |Hugo. | |-- | I hate duplicates. Just reply to the relevant mailinglist. | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hvdkooij.xs4all.nl/ | Don't meddle in the affairs of magicians, | for they are subtle and quick to anger. | ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Jarod's HOWTO for FC3/PVR-350/X - Please Take Offline
As I said before, I'm trying to help figure out what's broken. If it can be fixed, then I'm all for it (and I'm doing rebuilds now to try and see what happened). I don't believe in put up or shut up -- if it's broken, someone should say something, and people (including me) should try and help fix it. If open source and/or open project work revolved around put up or shut up perspectives, much less would get done and people would be afraid to give any feedback whatsoever. Thanks for your enthusiastic response, however. --Matt On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Mike Matsuzaki wrote: |Hey, I got an idea. | |Make your own Howto guide! | |Jarod's guide has been a life-saving resource for many of us. If you |have any better ideas where to start. Put up or shut up. | |Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Jarod's HOWTO for FC3
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |Someone, I don't know if it was you, Matt, stated that the guide should be taken offline. It was me. My E-mail _should_ have instead asked that there be a disclaimer, warning, something in the HOWTO instead of being taken off-line. When I upgraded from a working FC2 configuration to FC3 and everything broke, I was very, very surprised. At the time, being taken off-line was my first thought and I ran with it. ** My apologies to who were offended at the off-line suggestion. ** Jarod has updated his HOWTO to indicate there is a problem. That's really the best thing until someone (myself or others) figures out what's up. I've E-mailed Axel and Jarod privately to discuss some of these issues, what I'm testing, and I'll post as soon as I know more. Thanks, |Marvin --Matt ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Jarod's HOWTO for FC3/PVR-350/X - Please Take Offline
I've reviewed Jarod's MythTV FC3 HOWTO, using a single PVR-350 in my TV box (and I had a working base FC2 configuration), and I'm at a point now where I believe I can say that it just doesn't work yet. Jarod should take his HOWTO off-line until he's had a chance to fully walk through it with a PVR-350 so that those of us out there who are following it don't end up upgrading into a broken configuration (which we're all doing now). There are three main problems: - The ivtv-fb driver isn't up to rc3b yet to fix the problems with the module crashes (and even then doesn't work fully); - X with TV Out is definitely broken; I've tried both the xorg.conf pointed at from his site, as well as tuning. Modifying the ivtvdev_drv.o doesn't fix it; changing the firmware doesn't work; Using either ivtvdev, fbdev, or any other combination is broken. Changing vga= and video= options doesn't help. - The new 2.6.9 kernels are breaking in conjunction with ivtv, and the ck100zz drivers aren't useful anymore. Until these major problems are fixed, people should be pointed to the base FC2 instructions (without downloading the FC2 updates, since you can break your configuration with newer FC2 kernels as well) until these problems are fixed. All the previous work is really appreciated from both Jarod, Axel, John, and everyone else, but this is clearly a time drain so long as the base FC3/guide configuration doesn't work. This is just my $0.02 from doing this over the past three days and not making much forward progress (and seeing a few mythtv mailing list E-mails from people following Jarod's HOWTO and not seeing answers to their questions). When there's something really working enough to beta test and/or use, then I'm totally ready to help out. :) Thanks, --Matt ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Jarod's HOWTO for FC3/PVR-350/X - Please Take Offline
I definitely tried that (just tried it again with the base as well as 0.2.0-rc3b) and it doesn't work. Again, I think this is a fundamental problem right now that needs to be tested and fixed. I'm willing to test and try things out, build drivers, kernels, etc., but I've had a few private E-mails that reinforce the comments I've made here saying that yes, there is a problem and it needs to be corrected. I'm willing to help out, try stuff, tweak code, etc. Thanks, --Matt On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) wrote: |Matt, | |I was having exactly the problems you were, until I put vga=792 in the kernel |boot line. | |Something about the new kernels using the first framebuffer device without |actually capturing /dev/fb0, and therefore ivtv_fb crashes quite badly when it |tries to grab it also. | |Try that. | |- Original Message - From: Matt D. Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] |To: Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org |Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 11:36 AM |Subject: [mythtv-users] Jarod's HOWTO for FC3/PVR-350/X - Please Take Offline | | | | I've reviewed Jarod's MythTV FC3 HOWTO, using a single PVR-350 in | my TV box (and I had a working base FC2 configuration), and I'm at | a point now where I believe I can say that it just doesn't work yet. | Jarod should take his HOWTO off-line until he's had a chance to fully | walk through it with a PVR-350 so that those of us out there who | are following it don't end up upgrading into a broken configuration | (which we're all doing now). | | There are three main problems: | | - The ivtv-fb driver isn't up to rc3b yet to fix the problems with | the module crashes (and even then doesn't work fully); | | - X with TV Out is definitely broken; I've tried both the xorg.conf | pointed at from his site, as well as tuning. Modifying the | ivtvdev_drv.o doesn't fix it; changing the firmware doesn't | work; Using either ivtvdev, fbdev, or any other combination is | broken. Changing vga= and video= options doesn't help. | | - The new 2.6.9 kernels are breaking in conjunction with ivtv, and | the ck100zz drivers aren't useful anymore. | | Until these major problems are fixed, people should be pointed to the | base FC2 instructions (without downloading the FC2 updates, since | you can break your configuration with newer FC2 kernels as well) | until these problems are fixed. | | All the previous work is really appreciated from both Jarod, Axel, | John, and everyone else, but this is clearly a time drain so long as | the base FC3/guide configuration doesn't work. This is just my $0.02 | from doing this over the past three days and not making much forward | progress (and seeing a few mythtv mailing list E-mails from people | following Jarod's HOWTO and not seeing answers to their questions). | | When there's something really working enough to beta test and/or use, | then I'm totally ready to help out. :) Thanks, | | --Matt | | | | | | |___ |mythtv-users mailing list |mythtv-users@mythtv.org |http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users | |___ |mythtv-users mailing list |mythtv-users@mythtv.org |http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users | ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV-Out - Having Limited Success
I tried building and using rc3b and rc3c, but neither worked for me. Are you sure this fixes the problem? If there's a vga=whatever option that someone knows (I've tried vga=normal and vga=extended and neither work) or a video= option, please let the group know (there are a few of us suffering with this FC3/Axel's RPMs/Jarod's Guide nightmare with ivtv/ivtv-fb. Thanks, --Matt On Sun, 26 Dec 2004, Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) wrote: |Found it - now that I knew what to search for. | |Cheers big ears :) | |M. |- Original Message - From: John Harvey |[EMAIL PROTECTED] |To: 'Discussion about mythtv' mythtv-users@mythtv.org |Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2004 7:52 PM |Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV-Out - Having Limited Success | | | The fix went into rc3b :) | | Also from what I have read vide= doesn't work any more. People seemed to | have made it work with vga=xxx but I can't remember what xxx should be. | | It seems like a bodge that forces the resolution required to one that the | 350 doesn't support therefore stopping it being used as a console. | | JOhn | | -Original Message- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) | Sent: 26 December 2004 02:12 | To: Discussion about mythtv | Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV-Out - Having Limited Success | | Trying with ivtv-0.2.0-rc3a from RPM. | | The video=vc:0-0 has no effect - still get segfault. | | M. | - Original Message - | From: John Harvey [EMAIL PROTECTED] | To: 'Discussion about mythtv' mythtv-users@mythtv.org; | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2004 9:12 AM | Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV-Out - Having Limited Success | | | Current versions of ivtv should work ok. | Anything that is over a couple of weeks old has problems but there are | some | workarounds with kernel boot options. I think it's a vga= option. You | should | be able to find it if you search on the ivtv-dev mailing list. | | John | | -Original Message- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:mythtv-users- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) | Sent: 25 December 2004 13:18 | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Discussion about mythtv | Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV-Out - Having Limited Success | | Matt, | | I have just given up on FC3 - there sees to be problems with the | ivtv_fb | driver under FC3. | | I'm going back to FC2 - I had a fully stable system running for | months. | | Last time I upgrade without reason :) | | M. | - Original Message - | From: Matt Mencel [EMAIL PROTECTED] | To: 'Discussion about mythtv' mythtv-users@mythtv.org | Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 6:51 AM | Subject: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV-Out - Having Limited Success | | |I'm running FC3 (2.6.9-1.681_FC3) and have used Jarod's HOWTO to get | this |far. My PVR-350 is fairly new and boasts the Type 47 tuner. | |Last night I finally was able to successfully get SOMETHING on my | TV. |I |went through the steps in Jarod's guide. I was able to record a | signal |off |of /dev/video and play it back in mplayer...and also view it live | and | tune |to different channels using the ptune-ui applet. I never got a | clear |signal |though. I could see colors and see the picture shifting when | something |changed on the screen, but it was all in thin diagonal strips going |from |the |upper left side to the lower right side...with lots of black | interlaced |between and around the colored diagonals. | |So I stopped messing with that and went on to trying to get it onto | my | TV. |When I start '/sbin/modprobe ivtv' my TV screen goes all green. | Then | when |I |start '/sbin/modprobe ivtv-fb' my TV gets alternating green/pink or |green/white snowyish stripes going diagonally down from upper left | to |lower |right. Then I attempted to feed the PVR-350 input straight through | to | the |TV-OUT using 'dd if=/dev/video0 of=/dev/video16 bs=64k'. As soon as | I | did |that I got a ghost image of the TV feed coming through behind the |green/pink/white stripes. I could see outlines of people and | objects | but |definitely no details. The audio was coming through just fine. | |So now...that's where I'm at. Has anyone seen similar issues to | this | that |might help me figure out the problem so I can get this going? | |Thanks, |Matt | | | | | | --- | --- | -- | | | ___ | mythtv-users mailing list | mythtv-users@mythtv.org | http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users | | | ___ |
