RE: [ivtv-devel] Xine with xv driver shows pink & green stairstep pattern and no video

2005-06-28 Thread John Harvey
You need to decode something before the xv works. Ie something like :- dd if=/dev/video0 of=/dev/video16 bs=65k count=50 > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ivtv-devel- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Segel > Sent: 29 June 2005 05:33 > To: ivtv-devel@lists.sour

[ivtv-devel] Xine with xv driver shows pink & green stairstep pattern and no video

2005-06-28 Thread Daniel Segel
The problem: Xine works OK with the xshm video driver, but I was hoping to get better quality with the xv driver. Instead I just get a screen filled with repeating pink and green stairsteps. Before I did a cold boot I was getting a still video image on screen (still pink and green). Is this re

Re: [ivtv-devel] [PATCH] Fix possible segv in streams, autoload tda9887

2005-06-28 Thread Ross
On 6/29/05, Bryan Mayland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've also added code to set tda9887=0 if a non-NTSC PVR-150 is > detected. I'm pretty sure this is a safe thing to do and should prevent > requiring the module option to be set manually. Bryan, My PVR150 MCE PAL card didn't require the tda9

[ivtv-devel] [PATCH] Fix possible segv in streams, autoload tda9887

2005-06-28 Thread Bryan Mayland
I tracked down a possible segfault condition which could lock a device due to bad ioctl input. In this case it was using radio -P on a PVR-250. ivtv-streams never does a bounds check when accessing its streams array, so I've added the check in many places (not all are needed due to call hiear

Re: [ivtv-devel] #0.3.6s yuv and audio patches

2005-06-28 Thread William Powers
Was not able to test 0.3.6s but 0.3.6u appears to be providing equal volume from both my pvr-250's and my pvr-500. My thanks to Bryan Mayland for working on this! Chris Kennedy wrote: This includes the YUV Decoding patch and the audio mixer/volume patch for the cx25840. #0.3.6s: http://www

[ivtv-devel] updated radio.c & README.radio

2005-06-28 Thread Adam Forsyth
Brings README.radio up to date. Gets rid of unused variable / possible compiler warning in radio.c ivtv-0.3.6u.diff Description: Binary data

Re: [ivtv-devel] Re: PVR-150mce Low Profile

2005-06-28 Thread Sergey Alexandrov
The same here. PVR150MCE LP, NTSC - no problem (didn't test radio) Mandriva 2005LEOn 6/28/05, John Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:I have NTSC version,works just fine with ivtv withoutproblem. Never test radio though. Yahoo! SportsRekindle the Ri

Re: [ivtv-devel] [PATCH]mpeg playback badly behaved after yuv playback

2005-06-28 Thread Nick Rosier
John, 0.3.6u without the patch: MPEG playback ok, switching to YUV, ok, back to MPEG, controls in MythTV are unresponsive 0.3.6u with the patch: MPEG playback ok, switching to YUV the scaling seems to have changed (seems to be to the left and top of the screen), back to MPEG it plays for a second

Re: [ivtv-devel] ivtv: Prefix your subject line with [UNKNOWN CARD] (PVR-250 + PVR-150)

2005-06-28 Thread Bryan Mayland
Mark Knecht wrote: After a complete power down now the cards are back in the right order and WatchTV works again: Very strange. May want to add `options ivtv ivtv_debug=2` to your modprobe.d setup so we can get some more information. You can email me that log directly if the list won't

Re: [ivtv-devel] ivtv: Prefix your subject line with [UNKNOWN CARD] (PVR-250 + PVR-150)

2005-06-28 Thread Mark Knecht
Sorry for the rash of emails... On 6/28/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Also, after this reboot it's changed the order of the cards. Now the > 250 is card #0 and the 150 is card #1: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ dmesg | grep card > ivtv: Autodetected WinTV PVR 250 card > ivtv: Configur

RE: [ivtv-devel] X only starts once with ivtvdev_drv

2005-06-28 Thread John Harvey
Mail the complete xorg log file please. Thanks John > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ivtv-devel- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Libby > Sent: 28 June 2005 21:47 > To: ivtv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [ivtv-devel] X only starts once with ivtvdev_drv

Re: [ivtv-devel] ivtv: Prefix your subject line with [UNKNOWN CARD] (PVR-250 + PVR-150)

2005-06-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/28/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On the i2c issue it's an Intel chipset but I don't know how to > > determine what i2c chips are in the box. Is there an i2c interrogation > > program somewhere that tells you that a machine has a Via chip or a > > Winbond chip? There are

Re: [ivtv-devel] ivtv: Prefix your subject line with [UNKNOWN CARD] (PVR-250 + PVR-150)

2005-06-28 Thread Bryan Mayland
Mark Knecht wrote: Now, why didnt my setup of the second tuner work? I think that's more a question for the MythTV list once I do some study. Anyway, it seems that things are in good shape WRT ivtv. Thanks very much for your help! Yeah it doesn't set them up automatically. Just go into m

[ivtv-devel] X only starts once with ivtvdev_drv

2005-06-28 Thread Dan Libby
Hi, The first time i boot my system, tv-out works fine with my PVR-350. However, if I stop X for any reason, and then restart it (I'm using xdm), it crashes. The crashes continue even if I rmmod ivtv_fb and ivtv and then reload them with modprobe. Has anyone else seen this? Any suggestions?

Re: [ivtv-devel] ivtv: Prefix your subject line with [UNKNOWN CARD] (PVR-250 + PVR-150)

2005-06-28 Thread Bryan Mayland
Tyler Trafford wrote: Heh, looks like he did. haha I'm beginning to think he is actually a whole team of people who read and post to the list, merge patches, expain chips, write new VBI and DMA code, and I guess eat and sleep too. I can't put out enough patches to confuse them either!

Re: [ivtv-devel] #0.3.6s yuv and audio patches

2005-06-28 Thread Sigurd Nes
The audio is back on with ivtv-0.3.6u Regards Sigurd I lost the audio on the second 500-tuner when moving to ivtv-0.3.6s. ivtv-0.3.6p and ivtv-0.3.6n works fine. Same problem with ivtv-0.3.6o 1 x pvr350 1 x pvr500mce PAL Kernel 2.6.12 Regards Sigurd Chris Kennedy wrote: This includes th

Re: [ivtv-devel] PVR-150mce Low Profile

2005-06-28 Thread Tyler Trafford
Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >Has anyone tested this card? TV OK? Radio OK? It is not clear (to > me) from this link whether the PVR-150mce Low profile has the hardware > encoder. Does anyone know for sure? The picture looks like it's a > Conextant chip. > > http://www.hauppauge.com/Pages/products

[ivtv-devel] Re: PVR-150mce Low Profile

2005-06-28 Thread John Smith
I have NTSC version,works just fine with ivtv without problem. Never test radio though. Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com -

[ivtv-devel] PVR-150 freeze after wake from S3 (suspend to RAM)

2005-06-28 Thread Christian S
Hello, I'm not sure of this the right forum for this kind of stuff, but go ahead and flame me if you feel like :-) I'm having trouble getting ivtv and my PVR-150 card functioning after wake-up from S3. Everything works fine for a few minutes, but suddenly freezes ('mplayer /dev/video0'). 'dmes

Re: [ivtv-devel] ivtv: Prefix your subject line with [UNKNOWN CARD] (PVR-250 + PVR-150)

2005-06-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/28/05, Bryan Mayland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > >OK - Adding the 81-1 entry AND using your patch seems to have fixed > >the immediate problems. Will you submit that patch to the main driver > >tree? > > > > > Hey nice work. I'll include that patch in the rollup I

[ivtv-devel] [PATCH]mpeg playback badly behaved after yuv playback

2005-06-28 Thread John Harvey
The attached patch should fix the problems people have observed with mpeg decoding after using the yuv playback (ie pause being slow etc.) Any problems let me know as usual.   John ivtv-0.3.6u.diffs Description: Binary data

Re: [ivtv-devel] ivtv: Prefix your subject line with [UNKNOWN CARD] (PVR-250 + PVR-150)

2005-06-28 Thread Tyler Trafford
On 6/28/05, Bryan Mayland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > >OK - Adding the 81-1 entry AND using your patch seems to have fixed > >the immediate problems. Will you submit that patch to the main driver > >tree? > > > > > Hey nice work. I'll include that patch in the rollup I

Re: [ivtv-devel] ivtv: Prefix your subject line with [UNKNOWN CARD] (PVR-250 + PVR-150)

2005-06-28 Thread Bryan Mayland
Mark Knecht wrote: OK - Adding the 81-1 entry AND using your patch seems to have fixed the immediate problems. Will you submit that patch to the main driver tree? Hey nice work. I'll include that patch in the rollup I'll be posting later today, if Chris didn't already add the line. He's

Re: [ivtv-devel] ivtv: Prefix your subject line with [UNKNOWN CARD] (PVR-250 + PVR-150)

2005-06-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/28/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This machine is completely udev based. I started wondering if udev > might not be setting up some /dev devices correctly but I don't know > what to check on that. Looking in my /etc/modules.d/ivtv file I have > only this: > > alias char-major

Re: [ivtv-devel] Will the saa7173 chip be suppored?

2005-06-28 Thread Bryan Mayland
Andrew Oikle wrote: Just picked up an nVidia TV/Radio card with the saa7173 chip thinking it was already supported. Shame on me. lspci detects it as a C-Cube. Can this card be used? nVidia makes TV tuner cards now too? Man, everyone is making one now days. There is no support for the

[ivtv-devel] Will the saa7173 chip be suppored?

2005-06-28 Thread Andrew Oikle
Just picked up an nVidia TV/Radio card with the saa7173 chip thinking it was already supported. Shame on me. lspci detects it as a C-Cube. Can this card be used? --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from

[ivtv-devel] Hauppauge PVR series and video overlay

2005-06-28 Thread Andrew Oikle
Can you view raw tv video from these cards without having to decode its mpeg output? And how would you split its output to a window while saving to disk? Can you write the mpeg file while viewing/de-interlacing raw video output? --- SF.Net em

Re: [ivtv-devel] ivtv: Prefix your subject line with [UNKNOWN CARD] (PVR-250 + PVR-150)

2005-06-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/28/05, Bryan Mayland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > >OK, the patch seems to have moved me forward but I'm still getting > >some i2c messages and no video/audio. Could the i2c stuff be due to > >the way I built the kernel and/or not modprobing the right i2c stuff? > >I ass

Re: [ivtv-devel] ivtv: Prefix your subject line with [UNKNOWN CARD] (PVR-250 + PVR-150)

2005-06-28 Thread Bryan Mayland
Mark Knecht wrote: OK, the patch seems to have moved me forward but I'm still getting some i2c messages and no video/audio. Could the i2c stuff be due to the way I built the kernel and/or not modprobing the right i2c stuff? I assume it easily could be. Yeah looking at the dmesg you're not

Re: [ivtv-devel] ivtv: Prefix your subject line with [UNKNOWN CARD] (PVR-250 + PVR-150)

2005-06-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/28/05, Bryan Mayland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Patch attached to fix this. It might also fix your problems below > too, so try that first. Thanks Bryan. OK, the patch seems to have moved me forward but I'm still getting some i2c messages and no video/audio. Could the i2c stuff be du

Re: [ivtv-devel] ivtv: Prefix your subject line with [UNKNOWN CARD] (PVR-250 + PVR-150)

2005-06-28 Thread Bryan Mayland
Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I'm attempting to bring up a PVR-150 in a machine that already had a running PVR-250. Now neither card appears to be working. Wath TV is a dark screen with some wavey lines in it. No audio. Is there any known reason this cannot work? I can try a newer (or older) version

[ivtv-devel] ivtv: Prefix your subject line with [UNKNOWN CARD] (PVR-250 + PVR-150)

2005-06-28 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm attempting to bring up a PVR-150 in a machine that already had a running PVR-250. Now neither card appears to be working. Wath TV is a dark screen with some wavey lines in it. No audio. Is there any known reason this cannot work? I can try a newer (or older) version of ivtv if there's a

Re: [ivtv-devel] VBI (again)

2005-06-28 Thread Morten Rønseth
OK, never mind the bollocks, I'm a babbling fool. This did the trick, Bryan, just what the doctor ordered. First impressions are great, later tonight I'll give it the wife's stress testing :-) Thanks! Cheers, -Morten Bryan Mayland wrote: Morten Rønseth wrote: Hmmm - seems my

Re: [ivtv-devel] VBI (again)

2005-06-28 Thread Morten Rønseth
Hi :-) Bryan Mayland wrote: Morten Rønseth wrote: Hmmm - seems my system doesn't like the patch: Gah! I thought these were defined in 2.6 series' tuner.h. Apparently they didn't make it in until recently. Try patch #3! Uhm - sorry to be the bearer of bad omens, but I don't have "

Re: [ivtv-devel] PVR-150mce Low Profile

2005-06-28 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/28/05, Bryan Mayland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > >Hi, > > Has anyone tested this card? TV OK? Radio OK? It is not clear (to > >me) from this link whether the PVR-150mce Low profile has the hardware > >encoder. Does anyone know for sure? The picture looks like it's a

Re: [ivtv-devel] PVR-150mce Low Profile

2005-06-28 Thread Bryan Mayland
Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, Has anyone tested this card? TV OK? Radio OK? It is not clear (to me) from this link whether the PVR-150mce Low profile has the hardware encoder. Does anyone know for sure? The picture looks like it's a Conextant chip. It definitely has a CX23416 on it as seen here

Re: [ivtv-devel] VBI (again)

2005-06-28 Thread Bryan Mayland
Morten Rønseth wrote: Hmmm - seems my system doesn't like the patch: Gah! I thought these were defined in 2.6 series' tuner.h. Apparently they didn't make it in until recently. Try patch #3! Index: driver/tda9887.c === ---

[ivtv-devel] PVR-150mce Low Profile

2005-06-28 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Has anyone tested this card? TV OK? Radio OK? It is not clear (to me) from this link whether the PVR-150mce Low profile has the hardware encoder. Does anyone know for sure? The picture looks like it's a Conextant chip. http://www.hauppauge.com/Pages/products/data_pvr150lp.html I have so

[ivtv-devel] Re: Dual language on PVR150

2005-06-28 Thread rubbish
>Good question. While we don't have anything built in to handle >this, maybe we can figure out how to get it working for you. The first >thing I'd suggest trying would be to set the PREF_MODE of the audio >subsystem on the cx25840 (although this may have no effect if your card >uses a tda9887 for

Re: [ivtv-devel] VBI (again)

2005-06-28 Thread Morten Rønseth
Hi Bryan, Bryan Mayland wrote: Bryan Mayland wrote: > Proving once again that I can't produce a working patch before noon. I got the #if backward so it defined new-style params on old systems and old-style params on new systems. This patch has it the right way. Hmmm - seems my system doe

Re: [ivtv-devel] shrink live-tv

2005-06-28 Thread kevin thayer
you'll have to write some code to call the fwAPI ioctl. there's no way that i know of to do it from the command line. you could probably hack it into ivtvctl if you wanted.. shouldn't be too tough. -tmk --- Adam Forsyth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been poking around at this too, and havi

Re: [ivtv-devel] shrink live-tv

2005-06-28 Thread Adam Forsyth
I've been poking around at this too, and having a bit of trouble. Using ivtvctl -j, I found: 0x6c -- first four bits moves the image left 0x6d -- last five bits moves the image down, first three move it right a bunch but I found no way to resize the image by changing decoder registers. Also, how

Re: [ivtv-devel] VBI (again)

2005-06-28 Thread Bryan Mayland
Bryan Mayland wrote: > Proving once again that I can't produce a working patch before noon. I got the #if backward so it defined new-style params on old systems and old-style params on new systems. This patch has it the right way. Index: driver/tda9887.c ==

Re: [ivtv-devel] newbie user

2005-06-28 Thread Bryan Mayland
Aaron Richardson wrote: On my current windiws box I actually use 3 input devices for manipulating the tv. RF remote (ATI), mouse, and keyboard. The remote and mouse are the 2 heavily used devices. So, I really need a control panel for use with the mouse. try maybe ptune-ui.pl? I've n

Re: [ivtv-devel] VBI (again)

2005-06-28 Thread Bryan Mayland
Tyler Trafford wrote: I'm guessing that the I2C defined parameters are done in the 'obsolete style' in Morten's kernel version, causing it to ignore all non-obsoletely-defined ones. Ah yes, I didn't even think about that (even though he clearly posted it in his log). Actually, there's

Re: [ivtv-devel] newbie user

2005-06-28 Thread Aaron Richardson
On Tuesday 28 June 2005 06:46 am, Bryan Mayland wrote: > Aaron Richardson wrote: > >1) but I havent seen a good TV viewer program for the desktop. > > I use MythTV but have it resized to run in a 640x480 window rather > than take the full screen. That's closer to what you want, but you're > st

Re: [ivtv-devel] #0.3.6s yuv and audio patches

2005-06-28 Thread Sigurd Nes
I lost the audio on the second 500-tuner when moving to ivtv-0.3.6s. ivtv-0.3.6p and ivtv-0.3.6n works fine. Same problem with ivtv-0.3.6o 1 x pvr350 1 x pvr500mce PAL Kernel 2.6.12 Regards Sigurd Chris Kennedy wrote: This includes the YUV Decoding patch and the audio mixer/volume patch for

Re: [ivtv-devel] VBI (again)

2005-06-28 Thread Tyler Trafford
Morten Rønseth wrote: > Hi, > > >> > >>I'm guessing that the I2C defined parameters are done in the 'obsolete > >>style' in Morten's kernel version, causing it to ignore all > >>non-obsoletely-defined ones. > >> > > > > BTW, what exactly is the difference between new-style parameters and > obsole

Re: [ivtv-devel] VBI (again)

2005-06-28 Thread Morten Rønseth
Hi, I'm guessing that the I2C defined parameters are done in the 'obsolete style' in Morten's kernel version, causing it to ignore all non-obsoletely-defined ones. BTW, what exactly is the difference between new-style parameters and obsolete ones? Cheers, -Morten --

Re: [ivtv-devel] newbie user

2005-06-28 Thread Barry Green
Hi, Ross wrote: On 6/28/05, Bryan Mayland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Aaron Richardson wrote: 2) I would like to be able to switch channels faster. Right now running 0.3.6s it takes ~4 sec to change the channel. I am a channel flipper. I need fast channel changes. I should have probably

Re: [ivtv-devel] VBI (again)

2005-06-28 Thread Morten Rønseth
Hi, Tyler Trafford wrote: Bryan Mayland wrote: Morten Rønseth wrote: Hah! I found "/lib/modules/2.6.8.1-12mdk/kernel/drivers/media/video/tda9887.ko.gz" - and I thought I'd gotten rid of all doubles... Would this one interfer? I'll take a closer look tomorrow, too late n

Re: [ivtv-devel] newbie user

2005-06-28 Thread Ross
On 6/28/05, Bryan Mayland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aaron Richardson wrote: > > >2) I would like to be able to switch channels faster. Right now running > >0.3.6s it takes ~4 sec to change the channel. I am a channel flipper. I > >need fast channel changes. I should have probably done more

Re: [ivtv-devel] newbie user

2005-06-28 Thread Bryan Mayland
Aaron Richardson wrote: 1) but I havent seen a good TV viewer program for the desktop. I use MythTV but have it resized to run in a 640x480 window rather than take the full screen. That's closer to what you want, but you're still not going to get the responsiveness you're looking for I