Re: [ivtv-devel] ivtv suddenly failing - results in fast forward skipping

2005-09-23 Thread Brian Jackson
A newer version might actually help. They changed the dynamic buffer's to off by default. That may help you since that looks like a buffer problem. Mark Knecht wrote: Hi all, After running essentially cleanly for a could of months ivtv has suddenly started failing with this message every nig

Re: [ivtv-devel] PVR-150 no audio, 0.3.8

2005-09-11 Thread Brian Jackson
cx25840: firmware read failed ^ You need to get the audio firmware file. --Brian Jackson Mark Menke wrote: I'm running FC4 with kernel 2.6.12-1.1447_FC4, and I can't get the audio working even after reading all the various setups and switches. I've compiled and install 0

Re: [ivtv-devel] ivtv occasionally hogging CPU and skipping frames

2005-09-08 Thread Brian Jackson
I'd start looking at your drives to make sure dma is turned on. Look through the mythtv and ivtv -devel archives for something about ext3. I seem to remember they had to add something to mythtv's code to keep ext3's habit of writing out too much data at once from messing up mythtv. --Brian Pe

Re: [ivtv-devel] ivtv occasionally hogging CPU and skipping frames

2005-09-08 Thread Brian Jackson
What happens if you do cat /dev/video0 > /dev/null instead of movie.mpg. This will tell us if it's some hard drive or I/O (dma maybe) issue. At least that's my theory. --Brian Pete Davis wrote: I'm still having problems with IVTV hogging my CPU and the problem appears to be getting worse. I'

Re: [ivtv-devel] PVR-250 Firmware Problem

2005-09-07 Thread Brian Jackson
See a message from me on 9/4/2005 (at roughly 5pm) with a subject of "Re: [ivtv-devel] Trouble installing IVTV on Debian testing". Cameron B. Prince wrote: I recently switched my server from FC4 over to SuSE 9.3 because the MPEG4IP software is supposed to compile on SuSE. Now that I've started

Re: [ivtv-devel] Trouble installing IVTV on Debian testing

2005-09-04 Thread Brian Jackson
The messages below tell us that you are using the hotplug firmware loading mechanism. The firmware goes in a different place when using this. Unfortunately, it's different on different distros. grep FIRMWARE_DIR /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent That command should tell you what dirs the hotplug firm

Re: [ivtv-devel] loading keymap in remote's evdev broken with 2.6.13

2005-09-01 Thread Brian Jackson
Ivtv only uses the evdev driver. We have nothing to do with it's development, maintenance, or bugs. You should email whoever submitted that patch or whoever maintains that driver these days. --Brian Gert wrote: I use my PVR350 remote as follows: # modprobe ivtv # version 0.3.7k # modprobe ir-

Re: [ivtv-devel] Compile of 3.7k

2005-08-27 Thread Brian Jackson
The utils should be looking in /usr/include and it's various subdirs. You probably need some sort of kernel-headers installed. i.e. /usr/include/linux/stringify.h should exist. --Brian Jackson Steve Nuffer wrote: # uname -a Linux mythback 2.6.11-1.35_FC3 #1 Mon Jun 13 00:52:08 EDT 2005

Re: [ivtv-devel] Proposal future ivtv development.

2005-08-22 Thread Brian Jackson
I had 98days before I turned it off to rearrange the office the other day. --iggy Jesse Guardiani wrote: Hans Verkuil wrote: [...] 0.5 is purely work to get it in a state that you don't feel too ashamed when you give it to Linus :-) I think this covers it pretty well, any comments? Pur

Re: [ivtv-devel] Re: Subversion repository: options?

2005-08-22 Thread Brian Jackson
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cvstarballs/ivtv-cvsroot.tar.bz2 Should be the raw rcs files. --iggy Axel Thimm wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 12:46:02AM +0200, Hans Verkuil wrote: I've taken a quick look at trac and it seems OK. No-nonsense and simple. A quick question on the CVS->SVN conversio

Re: [ivtv-devel] freezing after many hours and SPAM paranoia

2005-08-09 Thread Brian Jackson
Brian Litzinger wrote: On the subject of SPAM. I original sent this email to the list via mailhub.pacbell.net and it was rejected as indicated below. I have to say, for a technical list, the rules seem a but poorly setup. You realize this list is run by sourceforge right? The project/list/etc

Re: [ivtv-devel] [PATCH] improvement to detection of interfering modules

2005-07-30 Thread Brian Jackson
D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: It is great that driver/Makefile2.6's install target checks for pre-existing modules that might conflict with ivtv's. In this patch, I improve on this check: + @ for m in ` find /lib/modules/$(KVER)/kernel -name msp3400.ko -o -name tuner.ko -o -name tda9887.ko

Re: [ivtv-devel] Real-time display of video data?

2005-07-21 Thread Brian Jackson
You can add -nocache to mplayer options, but it still won't work for things like video games. The problem is that an entire mpeg stream is assembled in hardware, and there has to be a lag to get it right. Or something --Brian Jackson Brian Keener wrote: One thing I've

Re: [ivtv-devel] Compile Error on 0.2.0-rc3j

2005-06-18 Thread Brian Jackson
Dirk Aust wrote: > Hi, > when trying to compile this version against the brand new 2.6.12 I get this > compile error: > > /usr/epia/src/ivtv-0.2.0-rc3j/driver/saa7115.c: In function > `saa7115_detect_client': > /usr/epia/src/ivtv-0.2.0-rc3j/driver/saa7115.c:1139: error: structure has no > membe

Re: [ivtv-devel] #0.3.6i segfault fixes

2005-06-13 Thread Brian Jackson
ivtv wrote: This fixes the two instances of segfaults recently reported, number one was a problem when doing fast firmware load, we didn't check the return value of the i2c write which we now do and disable fast firmware load if it fails, and if it still fails then bail out of fw loading comple

Re: [ivtv-devel] Segmentation Fault when 'modprobe ivtv'

2005-06-12 Thread Brian Jackson
Greg Depasse wrote: > Hi > I'm trying to get my PVR-250 working. I'm following Jarod's guide > and I keep getting a segmentation fault when I 'modprobe ivtv'. As an > aside, I've tested this system by installing WinXP pro (x86) and the > card worked fine. > > Here's my system specs (I posted ab

Re: [ivtv-devel] Excessive disk activity with PVR-350 TV-out

2005-06-11 Thread Brian Jackson
000:0x:0x > 0x4004200d:0x2486:0x04910b10 > 0x0100ad0d:0xc8600038:0x0100510d > 0x5a58412c:0x52283344:0x80c60c0c > 0x200682f4:0x3924:0x110005c4 > > > Before the disk activity starts, there's no ivtv-osd or ivtv messages. > These blocks rep

Re: [ivtv-devel] Excessive disk activity with PVR-350 TV-out

2005-06-10 Thread Brian Jackson
Carl Page wrote: > Hi, > > After much pain and anguish, I finally have X working on TV-out through > my PVR-350. :) > > However, for some time, since I first managed to copy video0 to video16 > and see some fuzzy TV being output from my PVR-350, I've noticed that > after two-three minutes of TV

Re: [ivtv-devel] PVR 150 Firmware issues

2005-06-07 Thread Brian Jackson
Jerry Burgess wrote: > --- Tyler Trafford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>Here's the output: >>> >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/jerry # cx25840ctl -l | grep >> >>DL_ADDR >> >>>DL_ADDR_LB=0 (0x0) "" >>>DL_ADDR_HB=0 (0x0) "" >> >>That's not good, DL_ADDR is incremented for each >>byte of firmware we >>l

Re: [ivtv-devel] miniDV to MPEG encoder

2005-06-02 Thread Brian Jackson
memory (via PCI bus!). Is it > possible to hook up my digital stream (miniDV) to the input of the MPEG > encoder chip? Sorry, no. --Brian Jackson > > Thanks, > Luc > -- Stuff for sale -- http://www.brianandsara.net/temp/forsale.html Gentoo Linux -- http://www.gentoo.org IVTV

Re: [ivtv-devel] Re: Everything installed but

2005-05-29 Thread Brian Jackson
Alan Secker wrote: > Hello Bryan > > I wanted to try the least demanding way to get a picture to appear. As > Mandriva > put the kdeTV icon on the desktop, I assumed it was compatible. Too bad Mandriva aren't as smart as you give them credit for. They probably just add it anytime there is a /dev

Re: [ivtv-devel] Driver Install hitch

2005-05-28 Thread Brian Jackson
Alan Secker wrote: > After compiling and installing the ivtv driver I 'modprobe'd it which > produced: > > FATAL: Error inserting ivtv > (/lib/modules/2.6.11-6-win4lin/kernel/3rdparty/ivtv/ivtv.ko): Unknown > symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg) > > dmesg produced: > > ivtv: Unknow

Re: [ivtv-devel] tuner.c compile problems moving to 0.2.0-rc3i/j

2005-05-20 Thread Brian Jackson
directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.7-gentoo-r11' > make: *** [all] Error 2 > > As evidenced above, I'm running gentoo with the 2.6.7-gentoo-r11 kernel. Try a newer kernel. That define is in 2.6.11-gentoo-r8 at least. --Brian Jackson > > I scrubbed the lists and didn'

Re: [ivtv-devel] PVR-150 MCE tuner 47 - always static

2005-05-15 Thread Brian Jackson
olves around this parameter. Get the kernel to accept it, and you'll be good. Josh's mention of moving from 2.6.8 to 2.6.11 makes me think it may have something to do with the module changes that happened between the 2 versions. Just for reference, I have the exact same card (2 of them ac

Re: [ivtv-devel] PVR-350 + 2 x PVR-150MCE combo

2005-05-14 Thread Brian Jackson
er of pci slots that can be busmaster. Maybe you've got too many cards in that board now. --Brian Jackson --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the

Re: [ivtv-devel] page allocation failure at modprobe ivtv (0.3.3y) on 2.6.11-amd64 with PVR-350

2005-05-04 Thread Brian Jackson
Jonas Meurer wrote: >On 02/05/2005 Brian Jackson wrote: > > >>>i'm trying to use my PVR-350 with ivtv 0.3.3y on a 2.6.11 amd64 (x86_64) >>>debian/unstable system, but unfortunately every second time i load the >>>ivtv modules, i get a "page allo

Re: [ivtv-devel] page allocation failure at modprobe ivtv (0.3.3y) on 2.6.11-amd64 with PVR-350

2005-05-02 Thread Brian Jackson
Jonas Meurer wrote: >hello, > >i'm trying to use my PVR-350 with ivtv 0.3.3y on a 2.6.11 amd64 (x86_64) >debian/unstable system, but unfortunately every second time i load the >ivtv modules, i get a "page allocation failture". 'modprobe ivtv' output >is attached as failed-modprobe-ivtv.out. > >

Re: [ivtv-devel] Re: ivtv-devel -- confirmation of subscription -- request 835744

2005-04-29 Thread Brian Jackson
Anthony Mittaz wrote: >Hello, I recently bought an Hauppauge WinTV PVR 150(not mce) on ebay and I >couldnt' get it work on my mythtvbackend. I'm also using a wintv pvr 250 >who is working like a charm... > >Here is my init dmesg > > PVR 150!!! > >ivtv: Autodetected WinTV PVR 150 car

Re: [ivtv-devel] Re: Server space/bandwidth

2005-04-04 Thread Brian Jackson
l stands. > > I'll speed the process up (mainly getting the approval on creating > accounts on the box, there have been some security > concerns). ivtvdriver.org already has a mirror of Chris' parts. Hell, with all these offers, we could almost have a pretty decent mirr

Re: [ivtv-devel] Re: filled up disk - had to restart backend & reload ivtv driver

2005-03-28 Thread Brian Jackson
; wrong. > > (I hadn't rebooted the machine since the first disk filling that I had > managed to recover from.) Just for reference, I fill my hard drive every couple of days, and have to clean stuff off. The worst I have to do is restart the backend. Never have to do anything with t

Re: [ivtv-devel] IVTV source code repository

2005-03-14 Thread Brian Jackson
On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 16:49 -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > Any project that isn't tiny ought to use a repository to record > changes ("source code control system", "version control system", > "configuration management system" or whatever you want to call it). > > Such a repository is invaluabl

Re: [ivtv-devel] solved: "noise" at top of screen

2005-03-14 Thread Brian Jackson
On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 00:39 -0500, Robert Brewer wrote: > Somebody said the small "noise" band I'm experiencing at the top of my > screen is in fact the closed captioning signal. It was distracting > when watching things. I was able to turn on cropping in mythtv's > playback settings. In the pla

Re: [ivtv-devel] Setting up a PVR-500 MCE

2005-03-14 Thread Brian Jackson
arball, and search the mailing list archives for my patch. Apply the patch and you should be set to go. --Brian Jackson > > > Your solution is > > actually making the ivtv module try to mess with a field that doesn't > > exist in recent kernels. i.e. you are playing

Re: [ivtv-devel] Setting up a PVR-500 MCE

2005-03-13 Thread Brian Jackson
On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 09:50 +1300, Corrin Lakeland wrote: > Hi all, > > I got myself a 500-MCE to play with about a week ago and I still haven't > managed to get it to work :-(. It doesn't help that I don't know what the > tuners are (I've seen several posts saying to look under the sticker but

Re: [ivtv-devel] 0.3.2i with NTSC PVR-150

2005-03-12 Thread Brian Jackson
On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 23:32 -0500, Sam Steele wrote: > I just upgraded from 0.3.2d with the audio patch > (CX25840_SET_AUD_STANDARD(0x0001)) to 0.3.2i, and now I'm getting a > high-pitched whistle and very quiet audio. Don't know about this one. Mine seem to be working okay. > Also, the tuner

Re: [ivtv-devel] [PATCH] tveeprom.c: symbol export incompatabilities between kernel-provided (2.6.11) and ivtv-provided (0.3.2h)

2005-03-10 Thread Brian Jackson
Actually the end goal is to not have the ivtv tveeprom driver at all. Does this actually fix something until then? or is it more for completeness. --Brian On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 01:41 -0800, Jeremy Huddleston wrote: > The attatched patch (not sure if the list prefers inline or attatched, > so sorr

[ivtv-devel] The ever evolving nature of the Linux kernel strikes again...

2005-03-08 Thread Brian Jackson
This time in the form of a now missing struct member. While I may not agree with the kernel hackers new found love of screwing with things in the middle of a stable kernel series, I don't make the rules, so I guess we just have to live with it. Attached is a patch that fixes compilation for ivtv-0

Re: [ivtv-devel] Hauppauge PVR 350 Tuner Type 47 All Channels Static

2005-02-20 Thread Brian Jackson
mes with ivtv (which shouldn't work btw). Also, there was someone yesterday that was complaining about a 350 +tuner47. Might want to see what they came up with. --Brian Jackson > > Thanks again for everyone who is working on the ivtv project. > > Jeff ---

Re: [ivtv-devel] failed with error -12

2005-02-19 Thread Brian Jackson
On Saturday 19 February 2005 09:41 am, Jacob Wheeler wrote: > I am in the process of setting up a MythTV box from scratch using FC3 > following Jarod Wilson's tutorial > > My first sign of trouble was when I got to the step to check if the > video card is setup properly. > > I CAN see it proper

Re: [ivtv-devel] Hauppauge PVR-150MCE

2005-02-18 Thread Brian Jackson
On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 19:30 -0500, Tyler Trafford wrote: > On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 17:43:14 -0600, Brian Jackson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 18:09 -0500, Tyler Trafford wrote: > > > On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 16:52:21 -0600, Brian Jackson > > > &

Re: [ivtv-devel] Hauppauge PVR-150MCE

2005-02-18 Thread Brian Jackson
On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 18:09 -0500, Tyler Trafford wrote: > On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 16:52:21 -0600, Brian Jackson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 14:22 -0500, Tyler Trafford wrote: > > > On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 12:58:21 -0500, Anthony Grieco <[

Re: [ivtv-devel] Hauppauge PVR-150MCE

2005-02-18 Thread Brian Jackson
tuner=39. I have a type 47 tuner. I do get video with tuner=39, but it has the line across the top that I mentioned before that someone mentioned was part of the broadcast. What do you guys think the problem with the type 47 tuner is? Is it just a difference between tveeprom and tuner modules? --Bri

RE: [ivtv-devel] Hauppauge PVR-150MCE

2005-02-18 Thread Brian Jackson
On 11:22:16 pm 2005-02-17 "Loc Ho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I would like someone to clarify. Has anyone got PVR 150 NTSC MCE tuner > type 47 working? If so, can you post the patch? No > > -Loc --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT

Re: [ivtv-devel] Hauppauge PVR-150MCE

2005-02-17 Thread Brian Jackson
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 21:57 -0500, Tyler Trafford wrote: > I know there was one person with that card who claimed to have it > working (video only, but this was before the 'force audio type' > discovery) using the pg600 patches and the no_black_magic=1 parameter. I had video working with 0.3.2a. B

[ivtv-devel] my pvr 150 mce ntsc experience

2005-02-11 Thread Brian Jackson
er 47 defined). The kernel tuner module seems to load and set the tuner to the correct type, so I'm not sure what's going on here. Anybody got an ntsc pvr 150 mce working fully yet? Any info I can provide to help out, I'll be more than happy. --Brian Jackson tveeprom: Hauppauge

Re: [ivtv-devel] To those without sound on their PVR150

2005-02-10 Thread Brian Jackson
Great! This works for me, now if I could just get video instead of static. I used to get video with 0.3.2a, but everything after that is all static. --Brian On Tuesday 08 February 2005 09:48 pm, Jeff Williams wrote: > I have finally convinced my board to produce sound (probably much to the > ple

Re: [ivtv-devel] Problem with a WinTV 250

2005-02-07 Thread Brian Jackson
On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 16:56 -0800, RN wrote: > I've got a WinTV 250, sometimes it is discovered > automatically and sometimes not, but here is what I > get, any help would be apprecaited. > It doesn't matter if it detected it correctly, it > still fails with error -12 you look like you have a se

Re: [ivtv-devel] trouble with a 250-pvr card

2005-02-05 Thread Brian Jackson
On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 15:50 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Greetings, > > The fellow that runs http://www.wilsonet.com/mythtv/ suggested that if i have > any troubles with my tuner that i send an email to this list and include: > > Feb 5 14:12:31 localhost kernel: ivtv: ===

Re: [ivtv-devel] Wintv 150

2005-02-05 Thread Brian Jackson
On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 08:14 -0600, Brett Bieber wrote: > Looks like your card similar to mine, and I'm running gentoo 2.6.10 r6 > devel sources too. > I think so far there still is no audio & video for the tuner together. > > Although on mine the tuner picture is fine if yours isn't that > gre

Re: [ivtv-devel] #0.2.0-rc3f and #0.3.0d versions

2005-02-02 Thread Brian Jackson
d thing I've seen so far. --Brian Jackson On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 21:48 -0600, Brian Jackson wrote: > I gave this a shot on my pvr-150mce ntsc. No luck on audio or video for > the tuner. I get colored static with no audio. I've tried a few > different tuner types, all have the same e

Re: [ivtv-devel] #0.2.0-rc3f and #0.3.0d versions

2005-02-02 Thread Brian Jackson
I gave this a shot on my pvr-150mce ntsc. No luck on audio or video for the tuner. I get colored static with no audio. I've tried a few different tuner types, all have the same effect. --Brian Jackson On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 10:16 -0600, Chris Kennedy wrote: > Here's new versions wi

Re: [ivtv-devel] When log files attack - something for developers to think about.

2004-12-08 Thread Brian Jackson
he kernel. "Last message repeated 8 times" But that only happens on the terminal afaik. The way it should be handled is by your logging daemon, not by the kernel or drivers. I'm pretty sure metalog can handle this, don't know about others. Also keep in mind that this is still an a

Re: [ivtv-devel] Error -19 reading Hauppauge eeprom.

2004-12-06 Thread Brian Jackson
also looks like your firmware went MIA. --Brian Jackson On 7:55:39 am 2004-12-06 Carl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is from a setup that's been working well for almost a year. > > I recently rebooted, and was no longer able to get ivtv to load. > This was with a ker

Re: [ivtv-devel] DDNS for ivtv site

2004-11-30 Thread Brian Jackson
polybottom.org/ also forwards people to the proper place. I'd mentioned it a few times on irc, didn't think to mention it here till now. I also have a fair amount of space and bandwidth if we wanted to put up a real site on this server. --Brian Jackson > > Thanks, > Chris > On Tu