RE: Bah! How do I change channels?

2009-06-28 Thread hermann pitton
t to exist. for the record: The above is true for a FlyVideo3000 (card=2) on the saa7134 driver. It has a hardwired analog IF demod chip and no extras for PM on the PLL chip. It gets more interesting with tuners with some tda988x and further. The rest is the well known history ;) Cheers,

RE: Bah! How do I change channels?

2009-06-27 Thread hermann pitton
F > >> Frequency: 0 (0.00 MHz) > >> > >> > >> So mysteriously, it seems like v4lctl is just plain not working. And > >> ivtv-tune, on the other hand, is working just fine. After I do that and > >> start Helix Producer, I see channel 3 just

RE: Bah! How do I change channels?

2009-06-27 Thread George Adams
king the v4lctl "setstation" command (which relies on .xawtv) and the "setchannel" command (which does not, at least according to the man page.) -------------------- > Subject: RE: Bah! How do I change channels? > From: hermann-pit...@arcor.de >

RE: Bah! How do I change channels?

2009-06-27 Thread hermann pitton
; > (strangely, v4lctl can do other things fine, like change the norm from NTSC > to PAL. It just can't change the channel.) > > So, sorry that it went off in rabbit trails of the device powering down and > so forth. I wonder what happened to my v4lctl progra

Re: Bah! How do I change channels?

2009-06-27 Thread Devin Heitmueller
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Andy Walls wrote: > Oh, I'm not against power management.  But state is lost - somethings > that's fixable with a lot of work apparently.  I was thinking maybe the > V4L2 spec could change. > > I was also pondering maybe the final close() shouldn't be the trigger >

Re: Bah! How do I change channels?

2009-06-27 Thread Andy Walls
On Sat, 2009-06-27 at 17:57 -0400, Robert Krakora wrote: > Andy: > > I too care about the environment. I am trying to find some extra time > to figure out if my KWorld 330U USB TV devices are actually going into > low power mode or not. I would say not as they get really hot, so I > unplug them

Re: Bah! How do I change channels?

2009-06-27 Thread Robert Krakora
had hoped. > > (strangely, v4lctl can do other things fine, like change the norm from NTSC > to PAL.  It just can't change the channel.) > > So, sorry that it went off in rabbit trails of the device powering down and > so forth.  I wonder what happened to my v4lctl program, t

RE: Bah! How do I change channels?

2009-06-26 Thread George Adams
onder what happened to my v4lctl program, though? xawtv itself (running in X) seems to work fine when I tell it to change the channel... > Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:42:06 -0400 > Subject: Re: Bah! How do I change channels? > From: dheitmuel...@kernellabs.com > To: awa...@r

Re: Bah! How do I change channels?

2009-06-26 Thread Andy Walls
On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 15:29 -0400, Devin Heitmueller wrote: > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Andy Walls wrote: > > All I'm saying is that it is obviously the expected behavior, it the > > specified behavior, and all the userland apps and scripts are written > > with that behavior in mind. > > >

Re: Bah! How do I change channels?

2009-06-26 Thread Devin Heitmueller
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Robert Vincent > I care and I love the infrastructure that has been created.  However, it > seems as though there are devices that do not conform to the paradigm or > maybe they are not truly in "low power" mode.  My guess is the latter > otherwise there would be a

Re: Bah! How do I change channels?

2009-06-26 Thread Robert Vincent Krakora
Devin Heitmueller wrote: On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Andy Walls wrote: All I'm saying is that it is obviously the expected behavior, it the specified behavior, and all the userland apps and scripts are written with that behavior in mind. The applications' expectation of that behavior is

Re: Bah! How do I change channels?

2009-06-26 Thread Devin Heitmueller
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Andy Walls wrote: > All I'm saying is that it is obviously the expected behavior, it the > specified behavior, and all the userland apps and scripts are written > with that behavior in mind. > > The applications' expectation of that behavior is, of course, why we ar

Re: Bah! How do I change channels?

2009-06-26 Thread Andy Walls
On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 14:47 -0400, Devin Heitmueller wrote: > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Andy Walls wrote: > > Hmm, that sure sounds like a V4L2 spec violation. From the V4L2 close() > > description: > > > > "Closes the device. Any I/O in progress is terminated and resources > > associated w

Re: Bah! How do I change channels?

2009-06-26 Thread Devin Heitmueller
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Andy Walls wrote: > Hmm, that sure sounds like a V4L2 spec violation.  From the V4L2 close() > description: > > "Closes the device. Any I/O in progress is terminated and resources > associated with the file descriptor are freed. However data format > parameters, cur

Re: Bah! How do I change channels?

2009-06-26 Thread Andy Walls
On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 13:23 -0400, Devin Heitmueller wrote: > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Robert > Krakora wrote: > > I had ran into this before with the KWorld a few months back. > > However, whatever problem existed that forced me to add > > "no_poweroff=1" to modprobe.conf for the em28xx mo

Re: Bah! How do I change channels?

2009-06-26 Thread Robert Vincent Krakora
Devin Heitmueller wrote: On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Robert Krakora wrote: Yes, it is run after mplayer initially tunes it. However, what is the difference between mplayer tuning and v4l-ctl tuning? They are both submitting the same IOCTLs to the driver to accomplish the same end resul

Re: Bah! How do I change channels?

2009-06-26 Thread Robert Krakora
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Devin Heitmueller wrote: > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Andy Walls wrote: >> I use either v4l2-ctl or ivtv-tune >> >> $ ivtv-tune -d /dev/video0 -t us-bcast -c 3 >> /dev/video0: 61.250 MHz >> >> $ v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video0 -f 61.250 >> Frequency set to 980 (61.250

Re: Bah! How do I change channels?

2009-06-26 Thread Devin Heitmueller
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Robert Krakora wrote: > Yes, it is run after mplayer initially tunes it.  However, what is the > difference between mplayer tuning and v4l-ctl tuning?  They are both > submitting the same IOCTLs to the driver to accomplish the same end > result; or is mplayer probab

Re: Bah! How do I change channels?

2009-06-26 Thread Robert Krakora
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Devin Heitmueller wrote: > On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Robert > Krakora wrote: >> I had ran into this before with the KWorld a few months back. >> However, whatever problem existed that forced me to add >> "no_poweroff=1" to modprobe.conf for the em28xx module

Re: Bah! How do I change channels?

2009-06-26 Thread Devin Heitmueller
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Robert Krakora wrote: > I had ran into this before with the KWorld a few months back. > However, whatever problem existed that forced me to add > "no_poweroff=1" to modprobe.conf for the em28xx module has went away. > I have been able to use v4l-ctl or ivtv-tune wit

Re: Bah! How do I change channels?

2009-06-26 Thread Devin Heitmueller
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Andy Walls wrote: > I use either v4l2-ctl or ivtv-tune > > $ ivtv-tune -d /dev/video0 -t us-bcast -c 3 > /dev/video0: 61.250 MHz > > $ v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video0 -f 61.250 > Frequency set to 980 (61.25 MHz) > > > Regards, > Andy Hello Andy, I had sent George some

Re: Bah! How do I change channels?

2009-06-26 Thread Andy Walls
On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 23:04 -0400, George Adams wrote: > Having gotten my Pinnacle HDTV Pro Stick working again under some old > v4l drivers, I'm now facing a much more mundane problem - I can't > figure out how to use the command line to change the channel. > > The video feed (a closed-circuit fe

Bah! How do I change channels?

2009-06-25 Thread George Adams
Having gotten my Pinnacle HDTV Pro Stick working again under some old v4l drivers, I'm now facing a much more mundane problem - I can't figure out how to use the command line to change the channel. The video feed (a closed-circuit feed) that's coming to the card is over a coax cable, and is on