Re: [ivtv-devel] PVR 150 MCE Image Quality above channel 60

2005-04-24 Thread Greg Woolsey
I'm unable to tune past channel 60 on my retail 150, but I'm still running 0.3.2.q, since otherwise I'm getting what I need out of it, and haven't had time to play with newer stuff. I forgot and recorded two hours of static from channel 71 last night, though :-( Channel 59 is choppy as well, but

Re: [ivtv-devel] PVR 150 MCE Image Quality above channel 60

2005-04-24 Thread John Andersen
On Sunday 24 April 2005 7:21 pm, Loc Ho wrote: > Hi, > > Anyone experiencing bad image quality above channel 60 on PVR 150 MCE > using version 0.3.3h and 0.3.3k? I don't think thats unique to the 150. Even my 350 crappy up there compared to lower channels. -- __Jsa_

[ivtv-devel] PVR 150 MCE Image Quality above channel 60

2005-04-24 Thread Loc Ho
Hi,   Anyone experiencing bad image quality above channel 60 on PVR 150 MCE using version 0.3.3h and 0.3.3k?   Thanks, Loc  

[ivtv-devel] ivtv trac

2005-04-24 Thread Tyler Trafford
Today I was bored so I imported ivtv versions 0.3.1 through current into a subversion repository (this actually required regenerating the diffs, some didn't apply cleanly) and set up Trac. http://relyt.dyndns.org/projects/ivtv The current tree is under branches/ck, and tags/* contains the individ

Re: [ivtv-devel] PVR-500 Audio problems

2005-04-24 Thread William Powers
Sorry, my bad. This is a PVR 500. It doesn't have an msp3400, therefore the module should not be loaded. It's been replaced by the cx25840. --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Prod

Re: [ivtv-devel] YUV decoding works, some caveats still

2005-04-24 Thread Paul Curtis
Chris Kennedy wrote: Actually I suspect for YUV input, we won't be able to input fast enough without buffering, I've actually tried an ioctl before with YUV frames, and it would miss a frame once in awhile until I used buffering. I have been playing with the YUV input, and here's my observations ..

Re: [ivtv-devel] 0.3.3 (k) / pvr350 ivtv: ENC IRQ OVERFLOW:

2005-04-24 Thread Petter Gundersen
On 4/24/05, Chris Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Odd, hmm, is the system under any load? What are the conditions, is io > good, what is the cpu load during this time? > This happens regardless of system load. I guess the cpu load is max 3% on an Athlon 1.3 GHz. Is this a VIA chipset issue?

Re: [ivtv-devel] YUV decoding works, some caveats still

2005-04-24 Thread Chris Kennedy
Actually I suspect for YUV input, we won't be able to input fast enough without buffering, I've actually tried an ioctl before with YUV frames, and it would miss a frame once in awhile until I used buffering. I am wondering about how the PCM will feed in and sync up, but possibly the whole timesta

RE: [ivtv-devel] YUV decoding works, some caveats still

2005-04-24 Thread John Harvey
Chris I've now got this working intermittently so it's close but I think we need to think about YUV should work. I think this should be much more like the OSD in it's behaviour rather than a stream like mpeg and I even wonder whether there should just be an ioctl interface to this a

Re: [ivtv-devel] 0.3.3 (k) / pvr350 ivtv: ENC IRQ OVERFLOW:

2005-04-24 Thread Chris Kennedy
Odd, hmm, is the system under any load? What are the conditions, is io good, what is the cpu load during this time? Thanks, Chris On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 10:43:20PM +0200, Petter Gundersen wrote: > On 4/24/05, Chris Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This would most likely be the reason why,

Re: [ivtv-devel] 0.3.3 (k) / pvr350 ivtv: ENC IRQ OVERFLOW:

2005-04-24 Thread Petter Gundersen
On 4/24/05, Chris Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This would most likely be the reason why, I think anyone using the > non-recommended firmware is going to get these, because frame-based DMA > is buggy and inefficient and they chopped it out of the firmware you > have, try the older recommende

Re: [ivtv-devel] PVR-500 Audio problems

2005-04-24 Thread Allan Stirling
Chris Manning wrote: Well it turns out that msp3400 wasn't loading, but now that it's loading, nothing has changed. I decided to upgrade to the 0.3.3g drivers in at-testing, and that hasn't made much difference (I've rebooted since then just to make sure that wasn't a problem.) Now I was checking

Re: [ivtv-devel] PVR-500 Audio problems

2005-04-24 Thread William Powers
Jarod's guide is aimed at using the ATrpms packages and those packages install ivtv in a different place than the ivtv source tar balls do. Some modules also have versions that come with the kernel but are out of date: Those are located in yet a different location. When I'm installing ivtv fr

Re: [ivtv-devel] PVR-500 Audio problems

2005-04-24 Thread Chris Manning
Well it turns out that msp3400 wasn't loading, but now that it's loading, nothing has changed. I decided to upgrade to the 0.3.3g drivers in at-testing, and that hasn't made much difference (I've rebooted since then just to make sure that wasn't a problem.) Now I was checking out the section in J

Re: [ivtv-devel] #0.3.3k scaling fix, VBI fixes. Still can't compile on 2.6.12-rc2

2005-04-24 Thread John Andersen
On Sunday 24 April 2005 4:29 am, Chris Kennedy wrote: > It's because the 2.6.12 kernel is new, not many have it yet I guess, and > that the patch which fixed it broke functionality for the pvr150/500 and > pvr350 working together.  So when I see a patch that is correct, I will > apply it Short of

Re: [ivtv-devel] still pvr150 remote problem

2005-04-24 Thread Steven
I also have the IR Receiver/Blaster on my 150, and one thing that I noticed is that you have to be very careful to make sure the device is actually pushed in all the way. At first I thought it was all the way in, but then I discovered that it was only half way. (Like when you have a stereo jack

Re: [ivtv-devel] 0.3.3 (k) / pvr350 ivtv: ENC IRQ OVERFLOW:

2005-04-24 Thread Sigurd Nes
I am using the recommended firmware - and having the same problem. Got rid of the problem by replacing the ivtv-irq.c in ivtv-0.3.3k with the one from ivtv-0.3.2z. Reagards Sigurd Apr 24 18:14:39 localhost kernel: ivtv: START INIT IVTV Apr 24 18:14:39 lo

Re: [ivtv-devel] 0.3.3 (k) / pvr350 ivtv: ENC IRQ OVERFLOW:

2005-04-24 Thread Chris Kennedy
This would most likely be the reason why, I think anyone using the non-recommended firmware is going to get these, because frame-based DMA is buggy and inefficient and they chopped it out of the firmware you have, try the older recommended one and see if it doesn't do this, and let us know the res

Re: [ivtv-devel] #0.3.3k scaling fix, VBI fixes

2005-04-24 Thread Tyler Trafford
On 4/24/05, Sergey Alexandrov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Something wrong with my keyboard, sorry. > > So, looking at cropping pictures, I can see that HACTIVE/VACTIVE could be > changed to get cropped image. At the same time, if you want to scale > cropped picture, > which value you have to

Re: [ivtv-devel] #0.3.3k scaling fix, VBI fixes

2005-04-24 Thread Tyler Trafford
On 4/24/05, Sergey Alexandrov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I meant should NOT be based :) > Take a look at > http://www.conexant.com/servlets/DownloadServlet/102267A.pdf?FileId=1834 > section about cropping, you will see the meaning of HACTIVE and VACTIVE > values there. One part of the scali

Re: [ivtv-devel] #0.3.3k scaling fix, VBI fixes

2005-04-24 Thread Sergey Alexandrov
Something wrong with my keyboard, sorry. So, looking at cropping pictures, I can see that HACTIVE/VACTIVE could be changed to get cropped image. At the same time, if you want to scale cropped picture, which value you have to use for calculate scaling factor? Hmmm, totally screwed up my brain :(

Re: [ivtv-devel] #0.3.3k scaling fix, VBI fixes

2005-04-24 Thread Sergey Alexandrov
for NTSC and 576 for PAL and SECAM. T That probably we have here. ---SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype.

Re: [ivtv-devel] #0.3.3k scaling fix, VBI fixes

2005-04-24 Thread Sergey Alexandrov
I meant should NOT be based :) Take a look at http://www.conexant.com/servlets/DownloadServlet/102267A.pdf?FileId=1834 section about cropping, you will see the meaning of  HACTIVE and VACTIVE values there. You are right about 487 pixels as full resolution, but looks like it works for us as 480 pi

Re: [ivtv-devel] 15.7kHz whine and audio channel mixing on PVR-150

2005-04-24 Thread Bryan Mayland
Hmm. Well that did change some things: Mixer Setting, Results 0,No audio 1,Tuner audio 2,Line in audio 3,Tuner and Line In 4,No audio 5,Tuner 6,Line in 7,Tuner and Line In 8,No audio 9,Tuner a,Line in b,Tuner and Line In c,No Audio d,Tuner e,Line in f,Tuner and Line In Anything that had tuner in i

Re: [ivtv-devel] #0.3.3k scaling fix, VBI fixes

2005-04-24 Thread William Powers
Did you mean to say that Hsrc and Vsrc *should* be based on HACTIVE and VACTIVE? I certainly think that is what figure 3-12 in the CX25836/7 Data Sheet implies. Yet that begs the question of why it wasn't working before. Looking back in my notes, the values I got by reading HACTIVE_CNT and V

Re: [ivtv-devel] Problem in write_settings exposed...

2005-04-24 Thread Tyler Trafford
Allan Stirling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tyler Trafford wrote: > > >Allan Stirling wrote: > > > > > > > >>I have the suspicions that the driver is not getting some of the > >>register addresses correct. > >> > >>With the patch (attached), I see the output (attached). Is there > >>something I'm

Re: [ivtv-devel] 0.3.3 (k) / pvr350 ivtv: ENC IRQ OVERFLOW:

2005-04-24 Thread Sigurd Nes
Petter Gundersen wrote: On 4/24/05, Marcel Lanz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have tons of them in my klog. log for insmod attached. ivtv: ENC IRQ OVERFLOW: #367 Stealing a Buffer, 2 currently allocated ivtv: ENC IRQ OVERFLOW: #368 Stealing a Buffer, 2 currently allocated ivtv: ENC IRQ OVERFLOW: #36

Re: [ivtv-devel] PVR-500 Audio problems

2005-04-24 Thread William Powers
I really can't tell what your problem is. All I can tell you is that everytime I've had a problem with no sound being present, it was because I was loading the wrong msp4000 module. If that's not your problem, sorry. If that is the problem, you can fix it by finding and deleting/renaming the

Re: [ivtv-devel] PVR-500 sound problems

2005-04-24 Thread lists
Same symptoms here on my 150: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/ivtv/devel/19779 On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 13:02 -0700, William Segura wrote: > I am having some weird issues with sound on my PVR-500. I have a > DirectTV receiver hooked up to it via S-Video and the Audio in jacks. I > can record

Re: [ivtv-devel] 15.7kHz whine and audio channel mixing on PVR-150

2005-04-24 Thread lists
For line input try this in your modprobe.conf options wm8775 mixer=2 On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 10:18 -0400, Bryan Mayland wrote: > Bryan Mayland wrote: > > > I'm using the HcwFalcn.rom and HcwMakoA.rom off the CD that came with > > the card, and ivtv-fw-enc.bin extracted from Hauppauge drivers (wh

Re: [ivtv-devel] #0.3.3j fixes to decoder, Myth skipping freezes

2005-04-24 Thread Mathew Boytim
I disabled preemtible in the kernel (2.6.10) and there is no noticable difference - everything I tried past 0.3.2v w/patch, including 0.3.3j, has very frequent 'soft hangs' (acts like it is paused) and very infrequent 'hard hangs' (need reboot). I don't see other reports of these 'soft hangs' and

RE: Re: [ivtv-devel] #0.3.3j fixes to decoder, Myth skipping freezes

2005-04-24 Thread Fredrik Trotzig
No go there. I removed preemptible from my kernel, but still got those hangs. Br Fredrik 2005-04-24 15:08 skrev Nick Rosier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I\'m running 2.6.11 with preemptible and I also still have hangs. But >it seems to have improved; before I had a feeling I experienced much >more hangs

Re: [ivtv-devel] 0.3.3 (k) / pvr350 ivtv: ENC IRQ OVERFLOW:

2005-04-24 Thread Petter Gundersen
On 4/24/05, Marcel Lanz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have tons of them in my klog. log for insmod attached. > > ivtv: ENC IRQ OVERFLOW: #367 Stealing a Buffer, 2 currently allocated > ivtv: ENC IRQ OVERFLOW: #368 Stealing a Buffer, 2 currently allocated > ivtv: ENC IRQ OVERFLOW: #369 Stealing a

[ivtv-devel] Tv out on Pvr350 used to work. What happened?

2005-04-24 Thread Don
This is a long story, so I'll try to keep short. I had separate X servers running on my pc monitor and the Pvr350's tvout port (to connected tv). The MythTV GUI image was too large for the TV, so I tried to correct it. Most attempts didn't work, but they didn't hurt anything. After trying thi

[ivtv-devel] PVR-500 Audio problems

2005-04-24 Thread Chris Manning
Hey everyone. I'm going to sound like a broken record here. I've got a new pvr 500 that I'm trying to install. I had the sound and video working for a bit yesterday, but somewhere along the lines (after a reboot I suspect,) the sound stopped working, and mythtv could no longer change channels.

Re: [ivtv-devel] 15.7kHz whine and audio channel mixing on PVR-150

2005-04-24 Thread Bryan Mayland
Bryan Mayland wrote: I'm using the HcwFalcn.rom and HcwMakoA.rom off the CD that came with the card, and ivtv-fw-enc.bin extracted from Hauppauge drivers (which work great with the PVR-250 this card is replacing). EDIT: That's a lie. As obvious from the MD5 sums, ivtv-fw-enc.bin is symlinked

[ivtv-devel] 15.7kHz whine and audio channel mixing on PVR-150

2005-04-24 Thread Bryan Mayland
I added a PVR-150 (NTSC tuner 50) to my system this week and and having some mixed results. Video seems fine, even vertical and horizontal scaling as of 0.3.3k. However, my audio is having issues. The first noticable problem is there is always a high pitched squeal while watching via the tun

[ivtv-devel] 0.3.3 (k) / pvr350 ivtv: ENC IRQ OVERFLOW:

2005-04-24 Thread Marcel Lanz
I have tons of them in my klog. log for insmod attached. ivtv: ENC IRQ OVERFLOW: #367 Stealing a Buffer, 2 currently allocated ivtv: ENC IRQ OVERFLOW: #368 Stealing a Buffer, 2 currently allocated ivtv: ENC IRQ OVERFLOW: #369 Stealing a Buffer, 2 currently allocated ivtv: Removed WinTV PVR 350,

RE: [ivtv-devel] Doublevision problem returns in 0.3.3f on PVR150

2005-04-24 Thread Per Jönsson
Hi, I'm currently running 0.3.3 (no letter) successfully without the doublevision problem, which I've always had experienced before. I noticed that with cx25840 debugging on, I would every now and then get doublevision when changing channels in Myth. However, when I turned debugging off, all chann

Re: [ivtv-devel] #0.3.3j fixes to decoder, Myth skipping freezes

2005-04-24 Thread Nick Rosier
I'm running 2.6.11 with preemptible and I also still have hangs. But it seems to have improved; before I had a feeling I experienced much more hangs. N. On 4/24/05, Chris Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't think the preemptible option works that well with ivtv currently, > but something

Re: [ivtv-devel] Doublevision problem returns in 0.3.3f on PVR150

2005-04-24 Thread Chris Kennedy
This seems like a register setting causing this, probably one of the initialization ones on module startup, there are alot of things there which need to be checked, not sure where they come from but alot (like the proc-amp ones) would do things like that (at least the proc-amp ones made things not

Re: [ivtv-devel] #0.3.3k scaling fix, VBI fixes. Still can't compile on 2.6.12-rc2

2005-04-24 Thread Chris Kennedy
It's because the 2.6.12 kernel is new, not many have it yet I guess, and that the patch which fixed it broke functionality for the pvr150/500 and pvr350 working together. So when I see a patch that is correct, I will apply it, and of course will sometime get around to it, but am not going to be ab

Re: [ivtv-devel] #0.3.3k scaling fix, VBI fixes. Still can't compile on 2.6.12-rc2

2005-04-24 Thread Bob Wiegand
John Andersen wrote: On Saturday 23 April 2005 6:58 pm, Robert Kulagowski wrote: Hi; I posted about this before, but got no response. 0.3.3a is the last version that compiles on my system. Compiling on 2.6.12-rc2: make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.12-rc2' CC [M] /home/mythtv/ivtv-0

[ivtv-devel] Doublevision problem returns in 0.3.3f on PVR150

2005-04-24 Thread Bjørn Konestabo
Greetings to all. Long time reader, first time poster. 0.3.3d is the driver of choice for me currently and the first I've tried that corrects the doublevision problem. I recently switched from 0.3.2q as later drivers gave me no audio, the 0.3.3d are great except that I'd really like to have scali

Re: [ivtv-devel] Problem in write_settings exposed...

2005-04-24 Thread Allan Stirling
Tyler Trafford wrote: Allan Stirling wrote: I have the suspicions that the driver is not getting some of the register addresses correct. With the patch (attached), I see the output (attached). Is there something I'm missing here, or should these register settings all be "sticking" once set? Have

RE: [ivtv-devel] #0.3.3k scaling fix, VBI fixes. Still can't compile on 2.6.12-rc2

2005-04-24 Thread John Harvey
I'll donwload 2.6.12-rc3 at some point but and take a look but it is not high on my list of things to do right now. John > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ivtv-devel- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Andersen > Sent: 24 April 2005 09:13 > To: ivtv-devel@lists.s

Re: [ivtv-devel] #0.3.3k scaling fix, VBI fixes. Still can't compile on 2.6.12-rc2

2005-04-24 Thread John Andersen
On Saturday 23 April 2005 6:58 pm, Robert Kulagowski wrote: > Hi; I posted about this before, but got no response. > > 0.3.3a is the last version that compiles on my system.  Compiling on > 2.6.12-rc2: > > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.12-rc2' >   CC [M]  /home/mythtv/ivtv-0.3.3

Re: [ivtv-devel] #0.3.3k scaling fix, VBI fixes

2005-04-24 Thread Ulrich Mayer
Chris, Hans, VBI (teletext) works like a charm now on my PVR 150. Thanks a lot! Uli Chris Kennedy wrote: This fixes some VBI problems Hans found, and also fixes scaling for the pvr150/500 from what Sergey found, and some YUV/MPG transition fixes. #0.3.3k: http://www.ivtv.tv/releases/ivtv-0.