Re: [ivtv-devel] Re: PVR 350 (Svideo), Xine, ivtvdev 0.10.6

2005-09-22 Thread Daniel Segel
Steve Nuffer wrote: I have it working when I view live-tv or a previously recorded show. I have to do the same when using xmame.x11. Someone suggested to dd if=/somefile.nuv of=/dev/video16 Putting in rc.local should be fine, but you may need to copy from the input instead of a saved f

Re: [ivtv-devel] [ANNOUNCEMENT]: ivtv-0.3.8 released

2005-09-13 Thread Daniel Segel
Ian Armstrong wrote: On Tuesday 13 Sep 2005 18:40, Joe Votour wrote: I'm using the MPEG-2 decoder (for now) in MythTV (and xv in the other applications) because the picture is fully overscanned on the MPEG-2 decoder, but I have to play with the MythTV settings to get it to work without bor

Re: [ivtv-devel] [ANNOUNCEMENT]: ivtv-0.3.8 released

2005-09-12 Thread Daniel Segel
There's been an 0.3.8 file on http://www.ivtv.tv/releases/ivtv-0.3/ for quite a while now; is that the same version or an earlier version? A lot of people will probably continue to use the http://www.ivtv.tv/releases/ URL to get the driver. Daniel Hans Verkuil wrote: I've released 0.3.8. It

Re: [ivtv-devel] Latest svn version fixes VBI passthrough in MythTV

2005-09-10 Thread Daniel Segel
Hans Verkuil wrote: I've fixed it properly in the driver. No MythTV changes are necessary. Let me know how it goes! OUTSTANDING! So far it works great! Thank you so much for making this work. I really appreciate the effort you're putting into this driver. Daniel --

Re: [ivtv-devel] [mythtv PATCH]: fix for VBI passthrough in MythTV

2005-09-09 Thread Daniel Segel
Hans Verkuil wrote: On Saturday 10 September 2005 00:38, Hans Verkuil wrote: Please test this patch and see if this fixes the problem! In the meantime I'll see if something can be done with the VBI reinsertion to fix it there rather then in MythTV. It's a bit stupid that video and audio are

Re: [ivtv-devel] Maybe Ghosting Problem

2005-09-08 Thread Daniel Segel
Wilhelm Eger wrote: John Harvey wrote: Does it occur if you select the Use PV350 playback option which can be selected in the playback settings section. Could I have selected both? (I can't check it now, because I'm at work ...) There's one option to use the PVR-350 MPEG decoder, and the

Re: [ivtv-devel] Version info in /var/log/messages

2005-09-04 Thread Daniel Segel
mt wrote: It gets if from the module file (.ko) which, to my understanding, it tries to find thesame way modprobe tries to find it. I thus cannot easily explain the differenceyou see. Thanks for the pointer - it turns out I had the kernel versions of some of the drivers under /lib/modules/

Re: [ivtv-devel] Version info in /var/log/messages

2005-09-03 Thread Daniel Segel
mt wrote: Maybe #> modinfo ivtv I've been meaning to ask about this for a while. I'm running 0.3.8, as evidenced by dmesg and my syslog: ivtv: version 0.3.8 (snapshot compiled on Wed Aug 31 18:25:47 2005) loading But when I run modinfo is says this: version:0.2.0-rc3j It's

Re: [ivtv-devel] Please test the latest revision 1284

2005-09-01 Thread Daniel Segel
oject. I am amazed at the functionality and quality you have managed to provide with the ivtv and ivtvdev drivers. The results are both fun and useful and have provided me with a great deal of enjoyment as I pursue this acpect of my linux hobby. Daniel Segel -

Re: [ivtv-devel] Re: Please test the latest revision 1284

2005-08-31 Thread Daniel Segel
Boleslaw Ciesielski wrote: One thing I noticed though is that CC is in all uppercase. This was the same with 0.3.7 but I think with 0.2.0 I was seeing proper case. This is hard to say though, since it could depend on the program. It does depend on the program. Here's some output I just grabb

Re: [ivtv-devel] Please test the latest revision 1284

2005-08-31 Thread Daniel Segel
uot;? The 0.3.x drivers have *never* worked with MythTV's internal CC functions, and this one seems to work just as well as the prior versions when using the TVs built-in CC decoder. I'm running MythTV 0.18.1-r2 and CC works as well as it ever has on Live TV and recorde

Re: [ivtv-devel] static vs. dynamic buffer alloc (was Random system freezing help requested)

2005-08-31 Thread Daniel Segel
Chris Kennedy wrote: The newer firmware only uses frame based DMA, it can't do byte based DMA in same sized chunks per transfer. There's alot of different variables there and they fit different situations, some find older firmware more stable and some find newer firmware better performing an

Re: [ivtv-devel] xdriver 10.5

2005-08-24 Thread Daniel Segel
were reported above, they might not *** be the reason for the server aborting. Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support at http://wiki.X.Org for help. Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for a

Re: [ivtv-devel] xdriver 10.5

2005-08-24 Thread Daniel Segel
I thought I read on this list a month or so ago that those three EE entries are purely informational, and don't mean anything is wrong. Daniel double guitars wrote: I also get the same (EE) errors in when starting X after recompiling with the new ivtv_xv.c. As for shade37a's question, I'm usi

Re: [ivtv-devel] Re: Trouble getting teletext to work (PVR350)

2005-08-23 Thread Daniel Segel
Rob Wouters wrote: ... I'm guessing this is the expected output, but I still get "Teletext page unavailable" in MythTV. Do you, or anyone, have any information on what version and/or patches of MythTV to use? If the teletext support in MythTV is anything like the CC support you'll need to

Re: [ivtv-devel] How long powered off does it take to fully reset a PVR-350?

2005-08-23 Thread Daniel Segel
Brendan Hoar wrote: On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Brendan Hoar wrote: If so, it may be best to suggest that ivtv testers also use a hard-power-down (PSU switch, cable remove or external power strip) in addition to the soft-power-down most users are familiar with. Daniel - care to repeat that test us

Re: [ivtv-devel] ivtv-0.3.7h.tgz: needs testing

2005-08-22 Thread Daniel Segel
Chris Kennedy wrote: This seems to look good on raw VBI output from what I can tell so far. The sliced VBI on the pvr150 for CC NTSC doesn't seem to work though, and the pvr350/250 seem to show a bunch of junk characters randomly (strings of dtdtdtdtdtdtd over and over, or spaces oddly set,

Re: [ivtv-devel] ivtv-0.3.7h.tgz: needs testing

2005-08-21 Thread Daniel Segel
Daniel Segel wrote: Hans Verkuil wrote: I'm curious to see the results on NYSC... My report: PVR-350, NTSC, CC works fine on recorded programs in MythTV (at least until you skip around...), but Live TV has no captions. Daniel BTW, if it matters the recorded shows that had wo

Re: [ivtv-devel] ivtv-0.3.7h.tgz: needs testing

2005-08-21 Thread Daniel Segel
Hans Verkuil wrote: I'm curious to see the results on NYSC... My report: PVR-350, NTSC, CC works fine on recorded programs in MythTV (at least until you skip around...), but Live TV has no captions. Daniel --- SF.Net email is Sponsor

[ivtv-devel] How long powered off does it take to fully reset a PVR-350?

2005-08-21 Thread Daniel Segel
With all the new versions of the ivtv driver I've been testing lately, I thought it would be a good idea to fully power off my system (no power to the power supply at all) and reset the PVR-350. I left it off for 70 seconds, but when it came back up I could still see a faded image of the MythTV

Re: [ivtv-devel] NTSC & CC: testers needed!

2005-08-20 Thread Daniel Segel
Hans Verkuil wrote: I see weird things when I try to playback an mpeg containing recorded closed caption VBI data. I checked that the data in the mpeg file is in transmission order, but what I get out seems to be randomized. It's all there, but in the wrong order. Mine appears to be in the co

Re: [ivtv-devel] ivtv-0.3.7e-hans.tgz ready for testing

2005-08-16 Thread Daniel Segel
Hans Verkuil wrote: On Tuesday 16 August 2005 17:13, Daniel Segel wrote: Great, thanks. Let me know if there's anything I can do or supply to help test any possible solutions. You can test 0.3.7e with MythTV. I'm curious if the same problem still occurs.

Re: [ivtv-devel] ivtv-0.3.7e-hans.tgz ready for testing

2005-08-16 Thread Daniel Segel
-x 1 -b wss' to get anywhere at all with this... Cheers, Wilf. On 16/08/05, Daniel Segel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Any chance you could take a look at the issue that causes the VBI stream to turn off if you move around in the video (e.g. skip forward in MythTV)? Without that workin

Re: [ivtv-devel] ivtv-0.3.7e-hans.tgz ready for testing

2005-08-16 Thread Daniel Segel
Any chance you could take a look at the issue that causes the VBI stream to turn off if you move around in the video (e.g. skip forward in MythTV)? Without that working, CC is essentially unusable to me, and without CC this whole linux-PVR thing is nothing more than a toy. Chris recently said th

Re: [ivtv-devel] Can someone supply me with a large NTSC mpeg with embedded CC data in it?

2005-08-15 Thread Daniel Segel
I have a ~114MB file created tonight off of some sitcom (the first show I could find with CC data in it.). It's sitting on a server at work witha fast network connection; I'll send you ftp info in the morning as soon as I get a chance to set it up. Note that I live in the US/Pacific timezone,

Re: [ivtv-devel] [PATCH]: Fix VBI passthrough & improve WSS behavior

2005-08-09 Thread Daniel Segel
Hi - I'm not Graeme, but I'm having a similar problem with CC data - it works fine if I start watching a recorded show from the beginning, but the moment I skip around it stops. This is with: MythTV 0.18.1-r2 (Gentoo) NTSC I set the following ivtv options at boot (fairly late in the boot pr

Re: [ivtv-devel] [PATCH]: Fix VBI passthrough & improve WSS behavior

2005-08-08 Thread Daniel Segel
Graeme Wilford wrote: Hans, Without this patch, wss kind-of works for me although in Myth, 16:9 VBI recordings revert to 4:3 after skipping forward. With this patch, all channels display as 4:3 all the time and I get a constant stream of these: Can you tell me what happens with and without

Re: [ivtv-devel] YUV Quality Issue: Subtle but making me dizzy

2005-08-04 Thread Daniel Segel
--- Ian Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 03 Aug 2005 16:35, Daniel Segel wrote: I just installed ivtv 0.3.7b this morning and tried out the YUV/xv output in MythTV and noticed something like this in a scene where the camera was panning fro

Re: [ivtv-devel] YUV Quality Issue: Subtle but making me dizzy

2005-08-03 Thread Daniel Segel
I just installed ivtv 0.3.7b this morning and tried out the YUV/xv output in MythTV and noticed something like this in a scene where the camera was panning from left to right. It's not obvious what the problem is, but it is obvious that something is wrong. I quickly switched back to using the PVR-

Re: [ivtv-devel] Re: PVR 350 (TV-Out) and PVR 150

2005-07-29 Thread Daniel Segel
Steve Nuffer wrote: I'm new and still trying to understand the environement. I would also like to try "xv" output through Svideo. If you know how, could you share some information. Just replace 'xshm' with 'xv', like this: xine -pfhq -V xv --no-splash dvd:// Daniel ---

Re: [ivtv-devel] Questions about Closed Captioning, ivtv, and mythtv

2005-07-28 Thread Daniel Segel
weeks to get this working and I get nothing. Daniel - how did you get passthrough working? I still can't even get that to work. --- Daniel Segel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm confused about how things work (or don't work) on my MythTV system, and I have a few questions.

[ivtv-devel] Questions about Closed Captioning, ivtv, and mythtv

2005-07-27 Thread Daniel Segel
I'm confused about how things work (or don't work) on my MythTV system, and I have a few questions. Sorry if I have some of the terminology wrong - this is all new territory for me: 1. What does the wss option do? I can set it with ivtvctl, but when I check the current setting it seems to not

Re: [ivtv-devel] small CC problem

2005-07-27 Thread Daniel Segel
You should be able to have those options set up automatically by putting a line like this in your /etc/modules.d/ivtv file: post-install ivtv /usr/local/bin/ivtvctl -p 6 -l 2 -x 1 -w wss,cc -b wss,cc Note that my version also explicitly sets the input and output. Do you get CC on recorded prog

Re: [ivtv-devel] small CC problem

2005-07-27 Thread Daniel Segel
I'm using essentially the same setup as you (Gentoo 2.6.12 kernel) and still haven't managed to get CC to work AT ALL on my PVR-350, so hearing that it's possible is heartening. Are you using the PVR-350 decoder in MythTV to watch things, or are you using the built-in (xv?) drivers? Daniel suko

Re: [ivtv-devel] [XDRIVER] version 0.10.5 ivtv xdriver - 2nd attempt

2005-07-20 Thread Daniel Segel
K.R. Foley wrote: Does the above mentioned X driver along with the newest ivtv driver actually work with xine or mplayer now using something like the xv or x11 driver? Can it play DVDs properly? Sorry if I am asking something that is an FAQ. I've been away for a while. I have scoured the list

Re: [ivtv-devel] Video image chopped & tiled strangely

2005-07-17 Thread Daniel Segel
Ian Armstrong wrote: If this is using yuv for playback, then there's a patch required to correct a field alignment error with NTSC. You can find it here http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/ivtv/devel/22148?#22148 Thanks, that took care of it. Daniel -

[ivtv-devel] Playing DVDs with xine through a PVR-350: What works best?

2005-07-16 Thread Daniel Segel
x27;s any other information that would be helpful, please ask for it and I'll happily supply it. Thanks, Daniel Segel --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, strai

Re: [ivtv-devel] X out on my PVR-350 - Caught signal 11. Server aborting

2005-07-05 Thread Daniel Segel
I run Gentoo as well, and I think I was getting those FBxxx errors as well when I was using the version of ivtv in portage, however it never prevented my system from working. You might want to look elsewhere for the problem at hand. Are you sure you're sending the signal out the correct port?

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

2005-06-29 Thread Daniel Segel
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.sourceforge.net Subject: [ivtv-devel] Xine with xv driver shows pink & green stairstep pattern and no video The pro

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

2005-06-28 Thread Daniel Segel
= 0xde9180e0 ivtv: ivtv_dec_vbi_thread: pid = 4395, itv = 0xde9180e0 ivtv: Setting audio matrix to input 3, output 1 ivtv: Switching standard to NTSC. ivtv: Initialized WinTV PVR 350, card #0 ivtv: END INIT IVTV Thanks in advance for any help. Daniel

Re: [ivtv-devel] VBI (again)

2005-06-23 Thread Daniel Segel
rmal TV to confirm this is on. Then cat /dev/video0 > /dev/video16 or any other form of encoding from the card and decoding that video with the card should produce CC. Thanks, Chris Daniel Segel wrote: I have no answers, but I wanted to chime in and let the developers know that I am yet

Re: [ivtv-devel] VBI (again)

2005-06-22 Thread Daniel Segel
I have no answers, but I wanted to chime in and let the developers know that I am yet another user who is very interested in Closed Caption support via the PVR-350 as well. I'm willing to wait if it's coming, but if there's no indication that it's at least being worked on then I'll have to eith

Re: [ivtv-devel] RE: Can't quite get Xv support working

2005-06-22 Thread Daniel Segel
I'm running the same system (Xorg 6.8.2 on a Gentoo box) and it's working for me; Assuming you uncommented the "Option XVideo On" line in your Xorg.conf file, the obvious differences between your Xorg.conf file and mine are that I have the following modules loaded: Section "Module" Load

[ivtv-devel] ivtv modules options (MythTV, PVR-350, Gentoo)

2005-06-14 Thread Daniel Segel
I'm running ivtv 0.3.6g on a Gentoo system with kernel 2.6.10, a PVR-350, and MythTV 0.18.1. I have a few questions: 1. If I want to use closed captioning (assuming it works), do I need to set the -x and -b options manually, or does MythTV set those for me when I specify NTSC closed captionin