Re: [ivtv-devel] 0.3.6d WOW

2005-06-06 Thread Fa Yoeu
Scott, Can you mention what hw you have? Gees, don't keep us in the dark man! On 6/6/05, Scott Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is BY FAR the best I've seen it. Not only is my video awesome in live > TV and recordings, it is superb in dvd and ripped dvd playback. As an added > benefit t

[ivtv-devel] 0.3.6d WOW

2005-06-06 Thread Scott Harris
This is BY FAR the best I've seen it. Not only is my video awesome in live TV and recordings, it is superb in dvd and ripped dvd playback. As an added benefit the audio seems far much better as well. Before it seemed to only be mono, but now there is definite stereo. Thanks everyone! --

[ivtv-devel] #0.3.6d fixes dynamic buffer allocation, smaller decoder buffers, adds parameter for dyn buffers

2005-06-06 Thread ivtv
This adds a new module option called ivtv_dynbuf which allows the dynamic buffer allocation to easily be turned off with ivtv_dynbuf=0 as a module option to ivtv. I don't think that is needed though, because I reduced the decoder buffer size/ osd buffer size, and also found a bug when the bu

Re: [ivtv-devel] pvr350 random system locks

2005-06-06 Thread ivtv
Actually try 0.3.6d, and don't change anything, I hopefully fixed this so it won't be needed, although if still a problem, there's a new module parameter ivtv_dynbuf which you can set to '0' and turn that off (plus fixed a bug which I think made things crash when dynamic buffer allocation fai

Re: [ivtv-devel] pvr350 random system locks

2005-06-06 Thread Michael Carland
On Jun 6, 2005, at 9:37 PM, ivtv wrote: Try changing the DYNAMIC buffer define in ivtv-driver.h to 0, just search for DYNAMIC and you'll find it in there, it seems dynamic memory allocation is failing in heavy usage situations and things aren't coping very well. Thanks, Chris mrwester wrot

Re: [ivtv-devel] pvr350 random system locks

2005-06-06 Thread ivtv
Try changing the DYNAMIC buffer define in ivtv-driver.h to 0, just search for DYNAMIC and you'll find it in there, it seems dynamic memory allocation is failing in heavy usage situations and things aren't coping very well. Thanks, Chris mrwester wrote: Hi- I've got a 350 and 500mce in same

[ivtv-devel] pvr350 random system locks

2005-06-06 Thread mrwester
Hi- I've got a 350 and 500mce in same box with a via KT400 based mobo. I can capture all 3 tuners at same time, generally no probem, but I get occasional lock ups, sometimes during playback on 350 tv-out, just watching, sometimes associated with commercial skip activity. Often the box is hard fr

Re: [ivtv-devel] Newer firmware

2005-06-06 Thread ivtv
Brian Litzinger wrote: On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 09:36:29PM -0500, ckennedy wrote: Harry Orenstein wrote: How new? Could you post MD5 sums or some other indication of the versions you want people to try? Probably would be best to compare apples to apples. It's version 2.05.

[ivtv-devel] #0.3.6c patches for scaling and pal vblank

2005-06-06 Thread ivtv
This contains the recent patches for scaling and vblank fixes... #0.3.6c: http://www.ivtv.tv/releases/ivtv-0.3/ Thanks, Chris -- === Chris Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you s

Re: [ivtv-devel] Unknown card

2005-06-06 Thread Bryan Mayland
The driver doesn't know which type of card you have, as you have mentioned. You can either try the latest 0.3 development version, or I believe you can force the card type by adding: options ivtv cardtype=1 to your modprobe.conf mythtv wrote: Just done a fresh install of FC3 and followed t

Re: [ivtv-devel] No Sound on 150MCE + LG S001D MK3 + v3.5(p)

2005-06-06 Thread Nick Rosier
Anyone else out there with a PVR150MCE (Pal, LG TAPE tuner type 58) who lost audio somewhere around 0.3.5? I can get audio when I specify tda9887 qss=0 module option but with a clicking sound on most of the channels (some are strangely enough good). Sample capture: http://users.skynet.be/nickshome/

[ivtv-devel] Unknown card

2005-06-06 Thread mythtv
Just done a fresh install of FC3 and followed the instructions from Jarod Wilson's site. Using ivtv 1:0.2.0-68_rc3j.rhfc3.at The card is definitely a Hauppauge PVR 250 When I try a capture I get zero byte files. What might be wrong. Many many thanks Dave Jun 6 20:04:32 mythtv kernel: i

RE: [ivtv-devel] pvr-150 video issues

2005-06-06 Thread David Nunnerley
unsubscribe -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan H Orlic Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 2:29 PM To: ivtv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [ivtv-devel] pvr-150 video issues Ok, I feel that I am so close and yet so far away I have th

[ivtv-devel] pvr-150 video issues

2005-06-06 Thread Dan H Orlic
Ok, I feel that I am so close and yet so far away I have the pvr-150 that auto detects tuner 47 however when i allow the tuner to be 47 it is pure static... however when i switch it to either 55 or 51... I get an almost good picture and perfect sound. Does this make any sense? how do i fi

Re: [ivtv-devel] Newer firmware

2005-06-06 Thread Chris Kennedy
I always use hexedit and view it that way, it's right at the top of the firmware files, so quick way to tell for sure what exact version, have now idea why some of the newer ones have all the extra crap at the end (which is unused and nothing except that, crap, and throws off our md5 checksumming o

Re: [ivtv-devel] Newer firmware

2005-06-06 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2005-06-05 at 21:28 -0500, William Powers wrote: > This may be useful: > > http://ivtv.writeme.ch/tiki-index.php?page=FirmwareVersions I've noticed that strings ivtv-fw-dec.bin | grep Version shows a version string embedded in each binary file, at least in all the files I've got.

Re: [ivtv-devel] Newer firmware

2005-06-06 Thread Bryan Mayland
ckennedy wrote: ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02050032 In addition to the pvr_2.0.24.23035.zip version, this is also available from: http://hauppauge.lightpath.net/software/pvr150/pvr150_inf.zip Although they are of different sizes (and subsequently have different md5sums), the first 256k a

Re: [ivtv-devel] worse with 0.3.6.b [PATCH]

2005-06-06 Thread Tor Arne Rein
Great, I also have perfect sound and picture now with this patch. PAL PVR-350 and PVR-500 combination. I also upgraded the firmware. Thanks everybody for the good work. Tor Arne On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 20:54 +0200, Ulrich Mayer wrote: > This patch fixes the picture quality probem with 0.3.6b fo

Re: [ivtv-devel] Newer firmware

2005-06-06 Thread ckennedy
Brian Litzinger wrote: On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 09:36:29PM -0500, ckennedy wrote: Harry Orenstein wrote: How new? Could you post MD5 sums or some other indication of the versions you want people to try? Probably would be best to compare apples to apples. It's version 2.05.

Re: [ivtv-devel] [PATCH] Svideo and composite audio click fix

2005-06-06 Thread Bryan Mayland
Ulrich Mayer wrote: 0.3.6b gives me really bad picture quality. False colors, basically b&w and ~30° blue and red stripes moving, (dis)appearing, quite unsteady - for all inputs, tuner, composite, and svideo Yeah, I really F-ed up PAL and SECAM in 0.3.6b by modifying the "Chroma subcarrie

Re: [ivtv-devel] worse with 0.3.6.b [PATCH]

2005-06-06 Thread Ulrich Mayer
This patch fixes the picture quality probem with 0.3.6b for me. Please ignore my comment on that in the thread on composite and s-video audio. Uli Bryan Mayland wrote: Make that two typos. Bryan Mayland wrote: Dammit, I'm really bad with the typos. Register 0x047d, 0x047e, what's t

Re: [ivtv-devel] [PATCH] Svideo and composite audio click fix

2005-06-06 Thread Ulrich Mayer
Bryan Mayland wrote: [...] Picture quality for composite is also good, s-video is b&w. If you go to cx24850-driver.c around line 723, for the SX25840_SVIDEO case, if you change CX25840_SET_PWR_DN_CH3(0x01); to set it 0x00, do you get color on the svideo input? If not, did you have colo

Re: [ivtv-devel] Newer firmware

2005-06-06 Thread Dan Christensen
ckennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's version 2.05.32 or greater, I think that's the newest version > though. It's included on > every new pvr150/500 CDROM, basically the newest one available on the > shpvr website > from the wiki page for firmware. It reports this line in the driver...

Re: [ivtv-devel] worse with 0.3.6.b [PATCH]

2005-06-06 Thread Bryan Mayland
Make that two typos. Bryan Mayland wrote: Dammit, I'm really bad with the typos. Register 0x047d, 0x047e, what's the difference? Try this patch. Sigurd Nes wrote: The video got worse with 0.3.6.b than with 0.3.6.a --- driver/cx25840-driver.c.orig2005-06-06 13:50:50.381904848 -0400

Re: [ivtv-devel] worse with 0.3.6.b [PATCH]

2005-06-06 Thread Bryan Mayland
Dammit, I'm really bad with the typos. Register 0x047d, 0x047e, what's the difference? Try this patch. Sigurd Nes wrote: The video got worse with 0.3.6.b than with 0.3.6.a --- driver/cx25840-driver.c.orig2005-06-06 13:50:50.381904848 -0400 +++ driver/cx25840-driver.c 2005-06-06 1

[ivtv-devel] worse with 0.3.6.b

2005-06-06 Thread Sigurd Nes
The video got worse with 0.3.6.b than with 0.3.6.a Regards Sigurd --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the office luge track? If you want to

[ivtv-devel] Re: [PATCH] cx25840: short fix to scaling code

2005-06-06 Thread Tyler Trafford
Tyler Trafford wrote: > I went with the least complicated way of doing this that didn't > involve a floating point calculation- for NTSC I add 7 (480 = 487 > lines), for anything else I add 4 (576 = 580 lines). Certainly not > anything precise, but it shouldn't cause any problems. Actually, this

[ivtv-devel] Re: 0.3.5z

2005-06-06 Thread Dan Christensen
[Resending, since the attachments made it too big. I've replaced one of the attachments with a URL. Also forgot to mention that I'm running Matt Zimmerman's deb's for myth 0.18.] I've just tried version 0.3.5z of the ivtv driver, which is the latest one I found on the website, along with a versi

[ivtv-devel] [PATCH] cx25840: short fix to scaling code

2005-06-06 Thread Tyler Trafford
This is a short fix to the scaling code... Pretty self explanatory. It just takes into account the chip thinks of height in terms of lines, while we request a resolution based on pixels, so some conversion has to be made. I went with the least complicated way of doing this that didn't involve a

Re: [ivtv-devel] Newer firmware

2005-06-06 Thread Louie Ilievski
On Monday 06 June 2005 04:35 am, ckennedy wrote: > Louie Ilievski wrote: > >I think this is some kind of joke or something. Not at all consistent > > with every single other email I've seen from Chris as far as signature, > > email address, etc. > > > :) nah, just using my new/old email address wh

Re: [ivtv-devel] [PATCH] Incorrect valuemap used fo AFD_FMT_STAT

2005-06-06 Thread Bryan Mayland
Chris Kennedy wrote: Merging them would be fine, or separate, either one works, I'll wait for both till I include them so either way. I've attached the merged version. Have I mentioned how easy you make it to work on this project? So many other open source projects I've got to chase revis

Re: [ivtv-devel] [PATCH] Incorrect valuemap used fo AFD_FMT_STAT

2005-06-06 Thread Chris Kennedy
Merging them would be fine, or separate, either one works, I'll wait for both till I include them so either way. Thanks, Chris On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 11:40:08AM -0400, Bryan Mayland wrote: > Bryan Mayland wrote: > > >I was going to change the FIXME in cx25840-driver.c... > >I've also got a

Re: [ivtv-devel] [PATCH] Incorrect valuemap used fo AFD_FMT_STAT

2005-06-06 Thread Bryan Mayland
Bryan Mayland wrote: I was going to change the FIXME in cx25840-driver.c... I've also got a patch for this. Chris, do you want to do a revision that includes just AFD_FMT_STAT_value_fixup.diff, verify it doesn't mess anything up, and then I'll submit a patch for the FIXME to be included

Re: [ivtv-devel] Newer firmware

2005-06-06 Thread Sigurd Nes
Great video and sound on all tuners. pvr350 + pvr500mce ivtv-0.3.6a Encoder revision: 0x02050032 PAL Regards Sigurd ivtv wrote: I have been experimenting and have found that the newest firmware is working ok during my tests now, it seems we have possibly gotten the driver to the point of work

Re: [ivtv-devel] [PATCH] Incorrect valuemap used fo AFD_FMT_STAT

2005-06-06 Thread Bryan Mayland
Tyler Trafford wrote: That should also be changed in "DECODER_GET_STATUS:". Right you are. New patch supersedes previous. Index: driver/cx25840-driver.c === --- driver/cx25840-driver.c (revision 287) +++ driver/cx25840-driv

Re: [ivtv-devel] [PATCH] Incorrect valuemap used fo AFD_FMT_STAT

2005-06-06 Thread Tyler Trafford
Bryan Mayland wrote: > I was going to change the FIXME in cx25840-driver.c, when I realized > that it was using completely whacked constants when checking the return > value of AFD_FMT_STAT. AFD_FMT_STAT is 4 bits, so even the first PAL > entry is out of bounds, and only NTSC-M uses the right valu

[ivtv-devel] [PATCH] Incorrect valuemap used fo AFD_FMT_STAT

2005-06-06 Thread Bryan Mayland
I was going to change the FIXME in cx25840-driver.c, when I realized that it was using completely whacked constants when checking the return value of AFD_FMT_STAT. AFD_FMT_STAT is 4 bits, so even the first PAL entry is out of bounds, and only NTSC-M uses the right value. This patch fixes up b

[ivtv-devel] [PATCH] ivtvctl formating fixup

2005-06-06 Thread Bryan Mayland
I don't know what I was thinking when I wrote this, but the doioctl() I added in a previous patch will write failure messages to stderr even though the decription of the ioctl it went to stdout. This patch fixes that so you won't see: failed: Invalid argument ioctl IVTV_IOC_S_VBI_EMBED [EMAIL

[ivtv-devel] #0.3.6a added cx25840 fw load patch, msleep patch

2005-06-06 Thread Chris Kennedy
This adds all the recent patches... #0.3.6a: http://www.ivtv.tv/releases/ivtv-0.3/ Thanks, Chris -- --- Chris Kennedy / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Engineer KMOS-TV/KTBG-FM Broadcasting Services Department Central Missouri State University ---

Re: [ivtv-devel] Newer firmware

2005-06-06 Thread ckennedy
Louie Ilievski wrote: I think this is some kind of joke or something. Not at all consistent with every single other email I've seen from Chris as far as signature, email address, etc. :) nah, just using my new/old email address which isn't work related, parting from my kmos.org email ad

Re: [ivtv-devel] Newer firmware

2005-06-06 Thread Morten Rønseth
Per Jönsson wrote: Hi, Help me understand something. In ivtv-firmware.c, there is a check that the firmware size isn't greater than IVTV_FIRM_IMAGE_SIZE, which is defined as 256*1024 = 262144 bytes. However, HcwFalcn.rom in the zip file you refer to is 376836 bytes. Wouldn't that result i

Re: [ivtv-devel] Xdriver v0.10 fixed xv support

2005-06-06 Thread Rutger Hendriks
On Sunday 15 May 2005 23:26, John Harvey wrote: > Here's the binary xdriver v0.10. > It is built against XFree86 4.3 so should be usable by most people. > > Any more problems please continue to let me know. > > John Hi John, So far I've only been able to find the sources for the 0.9 version of yo

Re: [ivtv-devel] Newer firmware

2005-06-06 Thread Rutger Hendriks
On Monday 06 June 2005 04:36, ckennedy wrote: > ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02050032 > ftp://ftp.shspvr.com/download/wintv-pvr_150-500/inf/pvr_2.0.24.23035.zip > > Unzip that file and inside you'll see HcwFalcn.rom file, which you'll > want to move to /lib/modules/ivtv-fw-enc.bin > > Thanks, > Chris

RE: [ivtv-devel] Newer firmware

2005-06-06 Thread Per Jönsson
Hi, Help me understand something. In ivtv-firmware.c, there is a check that the firmware size isn't greater than IVTV_FIRM_IMAGE_SIZE, which is defined as 256*1024 = 262144 bytes. However, HcwFalcn.rom in the zip file you refer to is 376836 bytes. Wouldn't that result in an error when loading

Re: [ivtv-devel] Newer firmware

2005-06-06 Thread jerome lacoste
On 6/6/05, Louie Ilievski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think this is some kind of joke or something. Not at all consistent with > every single other email I've seen from Chris as far as signature, email > address, etc. http://whois.net/whois.cgi2?d=groovy.org -

Re: [ivtv-devel] Xwindow problems with PVR-350

2005-06-06 Thread John Harvey
Your X configuration is broken. The log file is (usually) saved in /var/log/Xorg.0.log (0 is replaced with the screen number if you have multiple X screens). If you post that log file (or send it to me directly ) and also your Xorg configuration file we can probably work out what is wrong. John --