Re: XC5000 improvements: call for testers!

2009-05-13 Thread Devin Heitmueller
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 2:13 AM, kenny wang smartke...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Devin I found another problem for my WinTV-HVR-950Q, but I am not sure if it's caused by the device driver: my tvtime sometimes (not often) lost all channels and shows a blue window. Switching channel doesn't take

Re: XC5000 improvements: call for testers!

2009-05-13 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
improvements: call for testers! On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Britney Fransen britney.fran...@gmail.com wrote: I finally had some time to do some more testing with the beta2 tree and I think most of the issues I had were user error. Not exactly sure what I did wrong before but I am not seeing

Re: XC5000 improvements: call for testers!

2009-05-13 Thread Devin Heitmueller
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Timothy D. Lenz tl...@vorgon.com wrote: So when this goes main, next time we update from v4l we need the new firmware right? Yes. Now that we have the licensing straightened out, I'll also be working on getting it bundled into the distros so that users don't

Re: XC5000 improvements: call for testers!

2009-05-13 Thread Vanessa Ezekowitz
On Wed 13 May 2009 2:24:53 pm Devin wrote: On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Timothy D. Lenz tl...@vorgon.com wrote: So when this goes main, next time we update from v4l we need the new firmware right? Yes. Now that we have the licensing straightened out, I'll also be working on getting

Re: XC5000 improvements: call for testers!

2009-05-13 Thread Devin Heitmueller
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Vanessa Ezekowitz Devin, does this license/bundle arrangement also cover the firmware for xc3028-based devices? Unfortunately, it does not. Once I get the xc5000 stuff in though, I am planning on approaching them about getting firmware licensing under the same

Re: XC5000 improvements: call for testers!

2009-05-12 Thread Britney Fransen
On May 6, 2009, at 10:55 PM, Devin Heitmueller wrote: If you do decide to narrow it down to a particular patch, please switch over to the following tree first: http://linuxtv.org/hg/~dheitmueller/xc5000-improvements-beta2 I re-exported the patch series and recreated the tree without all the

Re: XC5000 improvements: call for testers!

2009-05-12 Thread Devin Heitmueller
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Britney Fransen britney.fran...@gmail.com wrote: I finally had some time to do some more testing with the beta2 tree and I think most of the issues I had were user error.  Not exactly sure what I did wrong before but I am not seeing the reception issues or any

Re: XC5000 improvements: call for testers!

2009-05-12 Thread Britney Fransen
On May 12, 2009, at 3:56 PM, Devin Heitmueller wrote: Glad to see that there are no longer any issues. Once I get one outstanding Pinnacle 800i fix in, I will issue a PULL request and this will go into the mainline. Great! Any chance the QAM64 patch will make it in too? Britney -- To

Re: XC5000 improvements: call for testers!

2009-05-08 Thread Devin Heitmueller
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 7:21 AM, John R. jo...@wowway.com wrote: After some off-list pointers by Devin, I tracked this down to user error.  I thought I was compiling tip for xc5000-improvements-beta but was not.  This is now working and composite input video works well on my 950Q.  I notice no

Re: XC5000 improvements: call for testers!

2009-05-07 Thread John R.
Original Message Subject: Re: XC5000 improvements: call for testers! Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 19:09:23 -0500 From: John R. jo...@wowway.com To: Linux Media Mailing List linux-media@vger.kernel.org References: 412bdbff0905052114r7f481759r373fd0b814f4...@mail.gmail.com John R

Re: XC5000 improvements: call for testers!

2009-05-06 Thread Devin Heitmueller
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 2:47 AM, kenny wang smartke...@gmail.com wrote: Works perfect on my machines! Thinkpad T61 + Ubuntu 9.04 Eeepc 1000HA + Ubuntu 9.04 NBR When tvtime is launched, it needs the same time to tune as before, but after the first channel comes out, switching channels is

Re: XC5000 improvements: call for testers!

2009-05-06 Thread Devin Heitmueller
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 11:03 AM, kenny wang smartke...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, Devin, I am using a WinTV-HVR-950Q. That's what I thought - the delay in loading tvtime is actually because of some issues with the performance of the au0828's i2c bus. I've put a few nights of work into debugging it,

Re: XC5000 improvements: call for testers!

2009-05-06 Thread Britney Fransen
Devin, I have an HVR-950q. Analog support is working much better for me. I love the faster tuning. Still no luck getting analog to work in MythTV. I am seeing some major regressions on the the digital side. mplayer can't tune any digital channels and seems to be failing because it

Re: XC5000 improvements: call for testers!

2009-05-06 Thread Britney Fransen
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Re: XC5000 improvements: call for testers!

2009-05-06 Thread Devin Heitmueller
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Britney Fransen britney.fran...@gmail.com wrote: Devin, I have an HVR-950q. Analog support is working much better for me.  I love the faster tuning.  Still no luck getting analog to work in MythTV. I am seeing some major regressions on the the digital side.  

Re: XC5000 improvements: call for testers!

2009-05-06 Thread Devin Heitmueller
Hello Britney, On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Britney Fransen britney.fran...@gmail.com wrote: On May 6, 2009, at 1:50 PM, Devin Heitmueller wrote: First off, the QAM64 patches that Frank provided have not been merged it.  It's on my todo list. I see that now.  Weird that MythTV is tuning

Re: XC5000 improvements: call for testers!

2009-05-06 Thread Devin Heitmueller
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Britney Fransen britney.fran...@gmail.com wrote: Did that and it still failed with the following (same as before): Playing dvb://2...@fox. FE_GET_INFO error: 19, FD: 4 DVB CONFIGURATION IS EMPTY, exit Failed to open dvb://2...@fox. FOX is the first entry in

Re: XC5000 improvements: call for testers!

2009-05-06 Thread Devin Heitmueller
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Frank Dischner phaedrus...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Devin Heitmueller devin.heitmuel...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 11:03 AM, kenny wang smartke...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, Devin, I am using a WinTV-HVR-950Q. That's what

Re: XC5000 improvements: call for testers!

2009-05-06 Thread Devin Heitmueller
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Britney Fransen britney.fran...@gmail.com wrote: On May 6, 2009, at 4:10 PM, Devin Heitmueller wrote: Could you try using azap to tune? It seems like you have a basic tuning problem, independent of the application.  So, let's forget about MythTV for now and

Re: XC5000 improvements: call for testers!

2009-05-06 Thread John R.
Devin Heitmueller wrote: [snip] Unfortunately, current users are going to have to upgrade to the new firmware. However, this is a one time cost and I will work with the distros to get it bundled so that users won't have to do this in the future:

Re: XC5000 improvements: call for testers!

2009-05-06 Thread Devin Heitmueller
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 5:45 PM, Britney Fransen britney.fran...@gmail.com wrote: I will try to help but it will be tomorrow before I can really get into it. Britney, If you do decide to narrow it down to a particular patch, please switch over to the following tree first:

XC5000 improvements: call for testers!

2009-05-05 Thread Devin Heitmueller
Hello all, I'm happy to announce that there have been some considerable improvements to the xc5000 driver, and I am looking for people with xc5000 based devices to test: == Noteworthy changes == * Power management is now properly supported - no more sucking up your laptop battery and burning