en) pvr-250 that should run with no
problems. WARNING: stay away from any OEM hauppauges or hauppauges
labeled "Freestyle".
Brent Kilgore wrote:
> I am contemplating adding a second tuner card to my system. I am
> currently using a 1 yr old pvr-350.
>
> Which tuner-only ca
I am contemplating adding a second tuner card to my
system. I am currently using a 1 yr
old pvr-350.
Which tuner-only card is the most supported at the moment? Also, is there any way I can easily test
to see if my box can handle another video stream? I was having DMA conflict issue
vel] Proposal future ivtv development.
On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 20:47 -0400, Brent Kilgore wrote:
> What is freezing? Is it the encoder/decoder card or mythtv front end.
Seems to be the encoder/decoder card. SSH locks up, etc...
I'm running a PVR 350. Does anyone else with a 350 have excell
What is freezing? Is it the encoder/decoder card or mythtv front end.
My mythtv frontend crashes and freezes periodically. I found this nifty
script somewhere save it somewhere chmod it. Then link it to a remote
button in .lircrc. I modified it slightly for my purposes so you may
want to make sur
I verify this, in part.
For me, 3.7g the captions were there yet corrupted. In 3.7h I get
nothing in live tv. I do not have any recordings so I can't help there.
I do not see any errors that might relate to this in the logs.
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Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 10:46 AM
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Subject: Re: [ivtv-devel] Proposal future ivtv development.
On Sunday 21 August 2005 04:37, Brent Kilgore wrote:
> It compiles. But I get the following when I update-modules (actually
>
21 PM
To: ivtv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [ivtv-devel] Proposal future ivtv development.
On Saturday 20 August 2005 23:27, Brent Kilgore wrote:
> As far as I can tell the driver is already no longer kernel 2.4
> compatible. (new wait.h routines)
I managed to compile it for 2.4.31
As far as I can tell the driver is already no longer kernel 2.4
compatible. (new wait.h routines)
I suggest backing up to where these new routines came into being and do
the version split there to minimize confusion. My unanswered posts have
attracted about 4-5 emails from people asking me if I k
Nope, Still gives me "cannot find fb0" on startup. There are no ivtv
headed logs either.
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Kilgore
Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2005 2:31 PM
To: ivtv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [
d I replace this new stuff with that single line from old code
without problems? Would someone please at least reply telling me if
this new driver even has a chance to work in knoppmyth r4v5's kernel?
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n tv settings -> playback settings. Just a
suggestion.
On 8/6/05, Brent Kilgore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> General settings has no effect whether its enabled or not. I can't
seem
> to find the second setting you were talking about. Can you point it
out
> to me?
> Remember
General settings has no effect whether its enabled or not. I can't seem
to find the second setting you were talking about. Can you point it out
to me?
Remember I am still using .17. this feature may have popped in at .18
or so.
Thanks
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Ok. The command doesn't
work permanently. Apparently MythTv sets a volume each time a stream
starts. I couldn't find this
functionality in the code of mythtv (.17) and it doesn't compile on my system
anyway. But here is my trademark
quick and dirty hack. This short circuits the volume s
how should I go about trying to fix it?
Thanks
Brent
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Thanks for your help, even though you were seeking instead of providing.
I have been looking for the command forever. My 350 has been recording
too quiet. I have mine sitting at 61500 now. I am also interested in
getting this to be set during startup or wherever. I have tried various
configura
I am compiling for 2.4 kernel btw. It appears these functions are a
part of 2.6 from a brief google search. Could this be a bug with
precompile tags/makefile config?
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Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 6:00 PM
To: ivtv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [ivtv-devel] ivtv-3.0.7a install problem
I'm not following you. Are you talking about /var/log/dmesg ?
It doesn't mention anything about ivtv with or without the work
-
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Mayland
Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 5:02 PM
To: ivtv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [ivtv-devel] ivtv-3.0.7a install problem
Brent Kilgore wrote:
>When I do update-modules after installing ivtv v 3.0.7a I get t
modules, reboot) ive noticed the make install is much more involved for
both parts now.
thanks
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Kilgore
Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 4:34 PM
To: ivtv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [ivtv-devel
When I do update-modules after installing ivtv v 3.0.7a I get the
following errors and the frame buffer device is not instantiated upon
reboot (IE no X)
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.4.25-chw/kernel/drivers/media/video/ivtv.o
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in
/lib/modules/2.4.25
Larry Symms wrote:
2. Anyone want to test this thing once I get a replacement? I'll
gladly send it to anyone willing to play with it.
I am sure my school district would want to try it out for you. We are
using three 500mce on two machines and they look ok.
Brent Norris
Ne
sure it is compiled with PVR support:
--enable-pvr
at configure time. If you are using Fedora Core 4 I have an RPM with it
compiled in if you want it.
Brent
> What options are there for streaming video with a PVR-150? I recall a
> few apps that allowed you to stream live video using V4L
card?
Thank you for any help that you can give me and thanks for the great
drivers for OSS.
Brent Norris (http://brentnorris.net)
Network Administrator, Edmonson County Schools
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Sorry to just jump in like this.
But I was just prowling around and found a folder with all the video
devices that exist.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/proc/video/dev # ls
radio0 vbi0 vbi4 vbi8 video0 video16 video24 video32 video48
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/proc/video/dev #
video0 is my mpeg stream.
I searched long and hard for this with no avail. Although I found out
that the image is supposed to be too big to match differing TV sets (the
overscan area?) I found I can get the image within a couple of pixels of
regular tv using those register hacks to move it back and forth. What I
use is:
i
I posted this also on the mythtvtalk.com forums. But I got to thinking
it might be an issue with ivtv since its not switching/detecting the
switch properly. I've been off this list for a while (mid may). My
other email address was canceled and I didn't pay attention to the
errors for ..about a mo
Actually, the setting you are looking is in mythtv-setup (run it from a
xterm, it's the thing that ran when you first installed)
Its under tuner config I think. The setting you are looking for is "vbi
format" set it to none. I think that checkmark just prevents it from
showing.
-Original
Mine finally worked. The key is to use very small values. I think my
settings are like -2, -4, 5, and 0 going down the list or something
similar if that doesn't make sense. I found if you set them too high it
has no effect and causes frontend instability. This only affects the On
screen display.
Ok retried the new drivers again. 0.3.3y to be precise. All seems good
at the moment with one minor issue.
While doing the command flood test (hit all the buttons on remote at
once over and over again) I got the following series of errors. The
entire X system became unresponsive and I had to re
Ahh.. tuner 47, evil 47 ...
Try putting 'options tuner type=44' (or type=39 if that doesn't work) in
your modules.d/ivtv file. Also make sure ntsc(or whatever) and proper
frequency table is set in mythtv-setup.
I thought the 3.x fork depreciated this statement. I have never gotten
around to rem
my mind at the moment, finding some things
that may be a problem, but so far aren't, it's acting like it isn't
reading fast enough, but I'm now trying to figure that out still.
Thanks,
Chris
On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 08:25:43PM -0400, Brent Kilgore wrote:
> But, it worked per
t so far aren't, it's acting like it isn't
reading fast enough, but I'm now trying to figure that out still.
Thanks,
Chris
On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 08:25:43PM -0400, Brent Kilgore wrote:
> But, it worked perfectly before I tried 0.3.3u. I have been using 0.2
> rc3i
>
reading fast enough, but I'm now trying to figure that out still.
Thanks,
Chris
On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 08:25:43PM -0400, Brent Kilgore wrote:
> But, it worked perfectly before I tried 0.3.3u. I have been using 0.2
> rc3i
>
> I reverted back and everything is fubar.
>
ng like capture is
started for VBI no matter what, even if it isn't going to read from
the interface, and it sets it to embed in the mpeg and type 0x4, so
just shouldn't be done if manually set it to not do so in the config.
Thanks,
Chris
On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 08:00:29PM -0400, B
is
On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 06:28:54AM -0400, Brent Kilgore wrote:
> Hmm bad news. I'm getting "stealing buffer" errors now. I have never
> got them before.
>
> Chunk from syslog:
>
> pr 28 18:12:30 mythtv kernel: ivtv: ENC Stream 2 OVERFLOW #21199:
> Stealing
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Kennedy
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 8:23 AM
To: ivtv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [ivtv-devel] #0.3.3u fixes to ff/rw pause in Myth
Turn off VBI in Myth.
Thanks,
Chris
On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 06:28:54AM -0400, Brent Kilgore wrote:
aying video"
I have only seen each of these errors once. So far so good. But "so
far" has only been about 15 min so I will post more if it occurs.
Thanks for all your hard work.
Brent
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094:
Stealing a Buffer, 16778240 currently allocated
Apr 29 06:19:35 mythtv kernel: ivtv: ENC Stream 0 OVERFLOW #43095:
Stealing a Buffer, 16778240 currently allocated
Apr 29 06:19:35 mythtv kernel: ivtv: ENC Stream 2 OVERFLOW #218835:
Stealing a Buffer, 4194546 currently allocated
Brent
-O
if it occurs.
Thanks for all your hard work.
Brent
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Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 10:19 AM
To: ivtv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [ivtv-devel] #0.3.3u fixes to ff/rw pause in Myth
T
ivtv.no-ip.info changed.
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Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 9:40 AM
To: ivtv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [ivtv-devel] www.ivtv.tv replacing old file sites
I have now gotten everything moved
I got bored so I wrote a little script to clean out all my ivtv driver
directories. I figured I would post it incase anybody else is
collecting driver folders and have a small root drive.
Usage is "cleanall regex". If you don't like the confirms you can do
"yes | cleanall regex"
Example: clean
All I can think of is check your tv cable. Mine had a loose crimp and I
was getting similar interference. Either that or check and make sure
your tuner is getting detected properly. I had that problem at one
time.
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Probably, whenever anybody claims "All problems" are fixed got to be
joking or microsoft.
Starting to piss me off too. Slashdot has been compromised nothing but
bullshit today. My class decided to play hooky today (it was a test
day... ooh if the admins at school would let me they would all fail
Recently I have noticed a few vey minor glitches. Some may say I'm being
anal about it, but I'm in the "tweaking" phase of my mythtv projects, so
please bear with me.
On the South Park commercial (Comedy central, last seen 3-27-05 evening)
that they are going through the reviews of south park
>It does seem to 'freeze' sometimes when doing that, but I am not sure
>wether
>that is some kind of autopause function as pressing the pause button
>will resume normal function.
I am seeing this also in the .3.2 devel tree. I am thinking its the
remnants of my DMA system freezes I was experienci
final fixes to get VBI on pvr250, 350
and 150 to work stable
I'm not sure what would cause this, really not much changed between
those
versions to cause such a change, actual behavior should be duplicated
of older versions unless your using VBI.
Thanks,
Chris
On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 08:17:0
Verision M. momentary stream freezes. Not system freezes. I can pause
and resume and it continues.
Version n. same
Explosions with o. Kernel panics 9 times out of 10 when I start or stop
a vid stream. Nastiness .. not cool. Enough?... ok, I'll continue.
There are no errors in the logs. I've
Hmm, no good. I am getting hard system freezes when transferring to and
from a vid stream. The framebuffer isn't visually getting corrupted
like 'l' but its still freezing on stream interruption.
The visual artifacts are being caused by mythtv .17 I think. I reverted
back to my working driver a
Yep, I was getting ready to say that. I'm using a 700 Celeron with no
HD DMA. I run between 30 and 50% watching live TV. Software decoding is
out of the question. I was having DMA deadlock like problems. I'm
currently testing 3.2m, so far so good but its only been 30 min.
BTW release M appears t
on, there is no chance to alter the audio stream since it is
still multiplexed in the mpeg stream.
So, I guess to answer my own question, it has not been address and at
the moment I can't think how it can work with hardware decompression.
But, I might be wrong, you're the expert.
Thank
Has the audio distortion seen on pvr-350 (maybe other pvrs) been
addressed? Or does this appear to be a mythtv bug?
Thanks
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I was having the dma deadlocking problem. I decided to try this version
since it's been a while since I updated.
I let it run for about 15 minutes with my dma on and it didn't lock up.
It HAS gone this long with dma before, will test longer after this
problem is fixed. But, the time it was runnin
This is caused by the time it takes to delete the old ring buffer and
the time it takes to prebuffer the new channel. 5 seconds is actually
pretty good. That's about what mine is doing (700 Celeron). I've read
things such as changing the file system, getting better computer, etc.
but the best you
ted back through the frame grabber(proper term?). This would
be required to do what you want I think. The performance benefits would
probably be nullified because of this anyway.
Of course, I might be wrong.
Brent
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I've was using .. er .. I think it was "procinfo -dn 1"
Which brings me another question.
Why is it that my disk I was using for backup is using like 250 irq
requests/sec? It is currently unmounted. It isn't degrading
performance but it just seems weird. IDE 0 seems to respond normally.
nels. In windows
sometimes you have to override the IRQ. Would manually fiddling with the
DMA's help any? Or is this obsolete thinking?
Brent
PS. Whew I wish I could think of a book or something. I sure can write a
lot about nothing :)
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eforge.net
Subject: Re: [ivtv-devel] Lockup / System freeze w/ new PVR-350
Brent,
> It might be a long shot, but I think it helped mine with slow menu
> response. I read an unrelated post far across the internet. about
> having too quick a repeat (or none at all) in the lircrc file bogs
dow
It might be a long shot, but I think it helped mine with slow menu
response. I read an unrelated post far across the internet. about
having too quick a repeat (or none at all) in the lircrc file bogs down
the system trying to interpret all those repeating signals off the
remote. I changed all my
Whoh. .. Are you me? I'm sure I typed this a while back. Now, let me
read rest of your post to make sure. I always wondered what I did while
I slept :) j/k
Ok, didn't notice if you mentioned it but I'm assuming you are running
on a low-endish computer. Possible an old dell dimension?
I had 2
Wow .. I want one :) hmm to be able to record every channel at once...
Probably still not find anything to watch LOL oh where was I.
I had same problem disable DMA on the hd to free up bus. :) j/k Of
course I had one PVR-350 and one harddrive on ancient computer. It was a
pain interfacing the
ivtv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [ivtv-devel] Most supported distro
On Wed, February 2, 2005 15:26, Brent Kilgore said:
> I have been trying to get the knoppmyth distro with the PVR350 (tuner
47)
> working with no avail. I am down to it working as long as I don't ff
or
> rw.
>
motherboards I should avoid
like the plague (no I’m not touching an ECS chipset mobo, they pissed me
to much with tech support)
Thanks again,
Brent
P.S: Sorry again for screwing up the
domain name. It is now ivtv.no-ip.INFO.
Ahhh hell.
Apparently the no-ip.com cannot be used anymore. I logged in with my
personal account and it gave me a message as such and deleted it.
The name now appears to permanently ivtv.no-ip.info
No-ip offers about 20 other free domains you can use that the future
owner of this account ca
Although this reminds me... I've been able to resurrect the lost
account I tried to create a few months ago.
The account is ready to have control relinquished. Which project
leader/manager/coder/etc should I contact directly to pass the login
info?
I am moving the ivtv.no-ip.com from my persona
ivtv.no-ip.com still works here.
Let me know if you have problems with it and I will check it in more
detail
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Gonzalez
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 2:20 PM
To: ivtv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject:
obo. Does anyone know of any replacement motherboard that would
fit in a dell dimension l700cxe case (doubtful I know)? What about a
sub-tiny-micro gamecube sized case and mobo that I can reuse my hardware
in?
Thanks,
Brent
With the VSYNC flag intact my dma traffic looks like:
nt: Sunday, December 26, 2004 4:34 PM
To: ivtv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [ivtv-devel] Bad card?
Brent Kilgore wrote:
> Well I officially give up. I believe my PVR-350 card is bad and the
> manufacturer not only will not honor the warranty, they are extremely
> rude in the
n RMA number. I shipped the card to them and
within
2 weeks I had a new card.
Where and when did you buy the card? I believe they provide a 2 year
warranty. Is your card possibly older than that?
I'd try again.
Good luck.
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clues, etc? I'm really at the end of my rope. I really hate
to throw away $200 like this.
Thanks
Brent
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