Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350 / fine tune frequencies

2006-01-28 Thread Michael T. Dean
On 01/28/2006 06:51 PM, Roger Hanson wrote: > I think I'm having similar trouble, but with a much larger block of > channels (Time Warner Cable in Minneapolis) and KnoppMyth installation. > > A PVR-350 card that can tune in channels 2-13 in fine, 14-20 are snow, > 21-36 come in fine, then 37-60 a

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350 / fine tune frequencies

2006-01-28 Thread Michael T. Dean
On 01/28/2006 08:38 PM, Matthew K. Lee wrote: >> The only way to tell for sure is from the ivtv initialization log >> messages, which you can retrieve with: >> >> tac /var/log/messages | >> sed -n '/=\ \ END INIT IVTV\ \ =/,/= START INIT IVTV =/p; >>/= START INIT IVTV =/q' | >> tac >> >> Ho

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350 / fine tune frequencies

2006-01-28 Thread Matthew K. Lee
> The only way to tell for sure is from the ivtv initialization log > messages, which you can retrieve with: > > tac /var/log/messages | > sed -n '/=\ \ END INIT IVTV\ \ =/,/= START INIT IVTV =/p; >/= START INIT IVTV =/q' | > tac > > However, from your modprobe.conf, I notice that you're n

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350 / fine tune frequencies

2006-01-28 Thread Roger Hanson
Matthew K. Lee wrote: Are you sure it's a tuning issue and not a tuner module issue? (Are you sure you're using the right tuner definition?) Mike ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350 / fine tune frequencies

2006-01-28 Thread Michael T. Dean
On 01/28/2006 01:32 PM, Matthew K. Lee wrote: >> Are you sure it's a tuning issue and not a tuner module issue? (Are you >> sure you're using the right tuner definition?) > Well, I'm not sure what you mean by definition. Here's my > modprobe.conf and the corresponding output of lspci. > The

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350 / fine tune frequencies

2006-01-28 Thread Matthew K. Lee
Are you sure it's a tuning issue and not a tuner module issue? (Are you > sure you're using the right tuner definition?) > > Mike > ___ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > W

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350 / fine tune frequencies

2006-01-27 Thread Michael T. Dean
On 01/27/2006 04:39 PM, Matthew K. Lee wrote: > On 12/16/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Matthew K. Lee wrote: >>> Is there such a thing as fine tuning frequencies for a PVR 350? I've >>> got a half dozen channels that seem to have extra static/noise through >>> the Hauppage

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350 / fine tune frequencies

2006-01-27 Thread Matthew K. Lee
On 12/16/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthew K. Lee wrote: > > >Is there such a thing as fine tuning frequencies for a PVR 350? I've > >got a half dozen channels that seem to have extra static/noise through > >the Hauppage PVR 350. The channels look great when the cable is >

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 & 500 in same box, sound issues

2006-01-17 Thread Michael T. Dean
On 01/16/06 21:28, Intense Red wrote: > On a semi-related note, MythTV seems to grab whichever one of the 3 tuners >it wants to record things. What I'd like to do is to "reserve" the PVR-350 >for live TV, and to have Myth do recordings only off from the 2 PVR-500's >tuners. Is this possible

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 & 500 in same box, sound issues

2006-01-17 Thread Todd Houle
I started just the same as you. PVR350 and Jarrods manual printed twice.. ;) Then I dropped in a PVR500 shortly after. I have not had any sound problems though. I am not looping through the sound card (just PVR350 out to the TV) which make MythMusic and MythVideo very boring, but MythT

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 & 500 in same box, sound issues

2006-01-17 Thread Intense Red
> Try updating to the latest ivtv driver (0.4.2). Thanks Joe. I just updated to the new ivtv, but unfortunately the problem remains. I can adjust the volume with the PVR-350's remote, and as I said, things work perfectly if I'm not using the 350's hardware decoder. > It can work, beca

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 & 500 in same box, sound issues

2006-01-17 Thread Joe Votour
--- Intense Red <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When using the PVR-350 MPEG decoder, the sound > comes > > out the breakout connector on the card. You'll > need > > to loop the sound to your sound card (as > discussed in > > the archives to death) and configure the mixer > > correctly. > >

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 & 500 in same box, sound issues

2006-01-16 Thread Joe Votour
--- Intense Red <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have a PVR-350 in my system which worked fine > with the PVR-350's hardware > decoder. The only "problem" was that MythTV is so > slick TV watching has > increased and 1 tuner was not enough. :-) > >So I added a PVR-500 to the box. The s

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 & 500 in same box, sound issues

2006-01-16 Thread Steve Pugh
Intense Red wrote: > I have a PVR-350 in my system which worked fine with the PVR-350's hardware >decoder. The only "problem" was that MythTV is so slick TV watching has >increased and 1 tuner was not enough. :-) > > Heh...I know how that goes, I started off with two tuners and then realiz

[mythtv-users] PVR-350 & 500 in same box, sound issues

2006-01-16 Thread Intense Red
I have a PVR-350 in my system which worked fine with the PVR-350's hardware decoder. The only "problem" was that MythTV is so slick TV watching has increased and 1 tuner was not enough. :-) So I added a PVR-500 to the box. The system is a combo frontend/backend which outputs to the TV u

Re: [mythtv-users] pvr-350 tv-out xorg.conf ntsc fit

2006-01-13 Thread Jean Connelly
Hi John, Thanks for the reply, but I don't actually understand your answer.  Why can't the framebuffer be resized successfully to allow the entire window to appear on my screen?  After much tinkering, I was able to resize an matrox G400-TV out framebuffer to fit on my TV; I've moved to a quieter b

Re: [mythtv-users] pvr-350 tv-out xorg.conf ntsc fit

2006-01-13 Thread John Harvey
Currently things only run full screen so modifying the modeline will only result in a broken system. You need to modify the myth settings for now. Things are changing but it's not ready yet. John --- Jean Connelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've got X working on the tv-out of my pvr-3

[mythtv-users] pvr-350 tv-out xorg.conf ntsc fit

2006-01-13 Thread Jean Connelly
Hi, I've got X working on the tv-out of my pvr-350.  I used the modeline from Jarod's site and, like everybody else, I've now got the sides of my window chopped off.  I'm confused about why I haven't been able to find a "non-chopped" ntsc modeline for the pvr-350 anywhere on the net.  Does anybod

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350 all of a sudden static

2006-01-11 Thread Steven Willis
> Sounds like tuner module problems. Although you could fix it, wouldn't > it be a lot easier to buy a composite or S-Video cable? Well my cable box has only coax and composite out, and the pvr350 has only coax and svideo in, so I'm kinda stuck with coax. I actually like this solution because I u

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350 all of a sudden static

2006-01-11 Thread Michael T. Dean
Steven Willis wrote: >So, everything's been running fairly well with mythtv for a while, and >then all of a sudden I'm just getting static from my tuner. The >playback is fine, I can play previously recorded programs just fine, >but watching live tv, or recording new programs gives me static. I've

[mythtv-users] PVR 350 all of a sudden static

2006-01-10 Thread Steven Willis
So, everything's been running fairly well with mythtv for a while, and then all of a sudden I'm just getting static from my tuner. The playback is fine, I can play previously recorded programs just fine, but watching live tv, or recording new programs gives me static. I've tried playing around with

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350 output not working in MythTV

2006-01-06 Thread Philip Isaacs
Hey Peter, Take at look at this HOW TO: http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=HauppaugeThreeFiftyInstallation It basically walks you through the process of setting up a PVR350 for TV out. It's pretty well documented. I'd be surprised if this doesn't answer most of your questions. Phil

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 image ghosting problem

2006-01-06 Thread jasonmollman
Kirk, Check that dnr_temporal didn't change. ivtvctl -C If it is not zero, then try resetting it with: ivtvctl -c dnr_temporal=0 On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 07:37:27 -0500 Kirk Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was curious if anyone else has seen anything remotely like this before. My Myth

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350 output not working in MythTV

2006-01-06 Thread Roger Hanson
If the problem is TV-out works on the TV, but not the Myth gui (X won't run on the TV) - you may want to look at this: http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=6558&highlight= > > I'm using the KnoppMyth distro (latest version) on my HTPC and I'm > trying to get > the output of my PVR 35

[mythtv-users] PVR-350 image ghosting problem

2006-01-06 Thread Kirk Anderson
I was curious if anyone else has seen anything remotely like this before. My Myth box has been running for over a year with a PVR-350 card. For the first 8 months or so everything looked great. Then a few months ago I noticed that all the video had severe ghosting. What I see usually (some sho

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350 output not working in MythTV

2006-01-06 Thread wretch
I'm using KnoppMyth  Release 5 Alpha 26 "MMI 4DSC SEAE"I will have a look at the KnoppMyth forum.  > Hi group,>> I'm using the KnoppMyth distro (latest version) on my HTPC and I'm> trying to get> the output of my PVR 350 (SVIDEO) working.>> I've enabled the PVR-350 tv output (/dev/video16) myth opt

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350 output not working in MythTV

2006-01-06 Thread Roger Hanson
wretch wrote: Hi group, I'm using the KnoppMyth distro (latest version) on my HTPC and I'm trying to get the output of my PVR 350 (SVIDEO) working. I've enabled the PVR-350 tv output (/dev/video16) myth option but when I try to watch tv the message 'unable to initialise video' apearse on my

[mythtv-users] PVR 350 output not working in MythTV

2006-01-06 Thread wretch
Hi group,I'm using the KnoppMyth distro (latest version) on my HTPC and I'm trying to get the output of my PVR 350 (SVIDEO) working. I've enabled the PVR-350 tv output (/dev/video16) myth optionbut when I try to watch tv the message 'unable to initialise video' apearse on my screen (vgacard - outpu

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 Clear & PVR-150 With Static

2006-01-04 Thread Joe Votour
In theory, the PVR-150 and the PVR-250/350 are the same hardware wise for the encoder. In principle, however, this is not the case. The tuner chip is different (I really wish Hauppauge would have put a digital tuner instead of the can tuner), and I think that the MPEG-2 encoder chip is different

[mythtv-users] PVR-350 Clear & PVR-150 With Static

2006-01-04 Thread Jeff Thurston
I am having a bit of trouble getting the PVR-150 working well with Myth 18.1 running on Fedora-4, IVTV 0.4.0. I've looked for a while for a solution to this problem but haven't come up with anything. I recently bought a PVR-150 to add to my existing backend/frontend which has a PVR-350 w

Re: [mythtv-users] pvr-350 Live Tv Audio to remote frontend Question

2005-12-29 Thread Jim Duda
I finally got it to work for me. I used alsa:default in one of the audio selection screens, and it started to work. The alsa:default doesn't "stick" in the fields, so, each time I got back into the configuration, alsa:default is replace by /dev/dsp. I think I can live with that. I believe I l

RE: [mythtv-users] pvr-350 Live Tv Audio to remote frontend Question

2005-12-29 Thread David Ellis
sion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] pvr-350 Live Tv Audio to remote frontend Question Jeff, One more note, I just realized that MythMusic has muted audio as well. When I do fuser -v /dev/dsp, I see that mythfrontend owns /dev/dsp. My .asoundrc contains the following: Note: my setup is

Re: [mythtv-users] pvr-350 Live Tv Audio to remote frontend Question

2005-12-29 Thread Jim Duda
Jeff Simpson wrote: On 12/29/05, *Jim Duda* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: I'm currently an avid Freevo user. I just installed MythTV yesterday and started playing with it. Mythtv is very impressive. I have mythbackend running on one linux box, with a

Re: [mythtv-users] pvr-350 Live Tv Audio to remote frontend Question

2005-12-29 Thread Jim Duda
Jeff, One more note, I just realized that MythMusic has muted audio as well. When I do fuser -v /dev/dsp, I see that mythfrontend owns /dev/dsp. My .asoundrc contains the following: Note: my setup is a tad odd, I need to put my main audio output on /dev/dsp1, which I reroute using the als

Re: [mythtv-users] pvr-350 Live Tv Audio to remote frontend Question

2005-12-29 Thread Jim Duda
Jeff, Thanks for the response. Results of my testing. If I choose "Watch Videos" and play something which was recorded outside of MythTV, the video plays properly. These videos are those previously recorded by Freevo. If I choose "Watch Recordings" and play something which was recorded by

Re: [mythtv-users] pvr-350 Live Tv Audio to remote frontend Question

2005-12-29 Thread Jeff Simpson
On 12/29/05, Jim Duda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm currently an avid Freevo user.  I just installed MythTV yesterday andstarted playing with it.  Mythtv is very impressive.I have mythbackend running on one linux box, with a PVR-350 tuner card.  Ihave mythfrontend installed and running on multiple

[mythtv-users] pvr-350 Live Tv Audio to remote frontend Question

2005-12-29 Thread Jim Duda
I'm currently an avid Freevo user. I just installed MythTV yesterday and started playing with it. Mythtv is very impressive. I have mythbackend running on one linux box, with a PVR-350 tuner card. I have mythfrontend installed and running on multiple linux boxes. I can view and hear mpeg video

[mythtv-users] PVR-350 Svideo Black & white

2005-12-27 Thread Jeff Simpson
I had myth working perfectly fine for about a year, and just today I decided to change the input to composite to record something. Right when I switched it, it showed up black and white until I told myth to use the composite input. Now that I'm back to svideo, it's refusing to use the svideo input,

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 Configuration questions

2005-12-21 Thread Jeff Simpson
On 12/20/05, Intense Red <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * In mythtv-setup I have the Capture Card Setup configured as an MPEG-2Encoder Card (PVR-250, PVR-350), using /dev/video0, and a default input ofTuner 0. That seems straightforward.* In mythtv-setup's Video sources I have my cable/zap2it set up, a

[mythtv-users] PVR-350 Configuration questions

2005-12-20 Thread Intense Red
Does anyone poing me at a newbie-level guide to configuring Myth-TV with a Win PVR-350? I'm lost and am wandering in the wilderness and no amount of docs or mail archives I've found so far has helped. The setup: I installed Kubuntu GNU/Linux on a box as per the instructions

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350 / fine tune frequencies

2005-12-16 Thread Michael T. Dean
Matthew K. Lee wrote: Is there such a thing as fine tuning frequencies for a PVR 350? I've got a half dozen channels that seem to have extra static/noise through the Hauppage PVR 350. The channels look great when the cable is hooked up directly to the TV, but through the PVR 350 I get vertical

[mythtv-users] PVR 350 / fine tune frequencies

2005-12-15 Thread Matthew K. Lee
Hello all, Is there such a thing as fine tuning frequencies for a PVR 350? I've got a half dozen channels that seem to have extra static/noise through the Hauppage PVR 350. The channels look great when the cable is hooked up directly to the TV, but through the PVR 350 I get vertical bars on chan

Re: [mythtv-users] pvr 350 not able to record TV

2005-11-29 Thread Jeff Simpson
I reinstalled ivtv and ran modules-update. I can modprobe saa7115, saa7127,msp3400, and tda9887 by hand. If I do that I can "cat /dev/video0 > test.mpeg" If I run test.mpeg in mplayer I get a screen filled with snow. A screen filled with snow is perfect! Much better than getting nothing. It means t

Re: [mythtv-users] pvr 350 not able to record TV

2005-11-29 Thread sarvinc
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 04:18 pm, Jeff Simpson wrote: > On 11/29/05, Jeff Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >ivtv0: Failed to load module tuner > > > > > > >ivtv0: Failed to load module saa7115 > > > >ivtv0: Failed to load module saa7127 > > > >ivtv0: Failed to load module msp3400 > > > >i

Re: [mythtv-users] pvr 350 not able to record TV

2005-11-29 Thread sarvinc
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 09:14 am, Michael T. Dean wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >On Monday 28 November 2005 04:08 pm, Michael T. Dean wrote: > >>install eeprom modprobe ivtv && modprobe --ignore-install eeprom > > > >I'm not sure how to "install eeprom." I've looked at all the install how

Re: [mythtv-users] pvr 350 not able to record TV

2005-11-29 Thread Jeff Simpson
On 11/29/05, Jeff Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >ivtv0: Failed to load module tuner>ivtv0: Failed to load module saa7115 >ivtv0: Failed to load module saa7127 >ivtv0: Failed to load module msp3400>ivtv0: Failed to load module tda9887>You have to install ivtv (for the kernel you're currently us

Re: [mythtv-users] pvr 350 not able to record TV

2005-11-29 Thread Jeff Simpson
>ivtv0: Failed to load module tuner>ivtv0: Failed to load module saa7115>ivtv0: Failed to load module saa7127 >ivtv0: Failed to load module msp3400>ivtv0: Failed to load module tda9887>You have to install ivtv (for the kernel you're currently using) to useit...Or, perhaps someone forgot a "depmod -

Re: [mythtv-users] pvr 350 not able to record TV

2005-11-29 Thread Michael T. Dean
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 28 November 2005 04:08 pm, Michael T. Dean wrote: install eeprom modprobe ivtv && modprobe --ignore-install eeprom I'm not sure how to "install eeprom." I've looked at all the install how to's and they don't seem to refer to eeprom either. I'm assumin

Re: [mythtv-users] pvr 350 not able to record TV

2005-11-28 Thread sarvinc
On Monday 28 November 2005 04:08 pm, Michael T. Dean wrote: > install eeprom modprobe ivtv && modprobe --ignore-install eeprom I'm not sure how to "install eeprom." I've looked at all the install how to's and they don't seem to refer to eeprom either. I'm assuming it's something I have to enable

Re: [mythtv-users] pvr 350 not able to record TV

2005-11-28 Thread Michael T. Dean
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm afraid that this is a bit over my head. I've searched for the modules; tuner, saa7115, saa7127, msp3400, and tda9887 there are .ko versions of each. I tried running "depmod -ae" but that didn't seem to help. Does that mean that they are installed? As for plan "b)

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV and native Recordingsmooth, Transcodedand other video choppy

2005-11-28 Thread Paul Fielding
that's already taken care of with nuvexport.   Thanks a bunch John!   Paul   - Original Message - From: John Harvey To: 'Discussion about mythtv' Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 12:44 AM Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV and native Recordingsmoot

RE: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV and native Recordingsmooth, Transcodedand other video choppy

2005-11-27 Thread John Harvey
: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV and native Recordingsmooth,Transcodedand other video choppy   Hi Kevin, Yup, my BusID is set. As per my original post, the BusID is at 0x14 - What I perhaps should have clarified is that I have made the necessary changes in the XF86Config-4 file, including the

Re: [mythtv-users] pvr 350 not able to record TV

2005-11-27 Thread sarvinc
On Monday 28 November 2005 05:22 am, Michael T. Dean wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >ivtv0: Failed to load module tveeprom > >ivtv0: Error -19 reading Hauppauge eeprom. > >ivtv0: Possible causes: the tveeprom module was not loaded, or > >ivtv0: the eeprom kernel module was loaded before the tv

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV and native Recording smooth,Transcodedand other video choppy

2005-11-27 Thread Paul Fielding
right now - everything works - it's just that the frame rate sucks when playing anything other than live TV or recorded, untranscoded TV   regards,   paul   - Original Message - From: Kevin Kuphal To: Discussion about mythtv Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2005 10:13

Re: [mythtv-users] pvr 350 not able to record TV

2005-11-27 Thread Michael T. Dean
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ivtv0: Failed to load module tveeprom ivtv0: Error -19 reading Hauppauge eeprom. ivtv0: Possible causes: the tveeprom module was not loaded, or ivtv0: the eeprom kernel module was loaded before the tveeprom module. and ivtv0: Failed to load module tuner ivtv0: Fail

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV and native Recording smooth, Transcodedand other video choppy

2005-11-27 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Paul Fielding wrote: Using the ivtvdev X driver, if Xv isn't working for it then I need to know how to make it work *shrug*. Already tried the drivers at the link you provided, with the problems already listed below, therefore using an older version of the ivtvdev driver. Did you set the

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV and native Recording smooth, Transcodedand other video choppy

2005-11-27 Thread Paul Fielding
ssage - From: Kevin Kuphal To: Discussion about mythtv Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2005 10:00 PM Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV and native Recording smooth, Transcodedand other video choppy Paul Fielding wrote:> Ok, I dunno where else to look.  I've searched

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV and native Recording smooth, Transcoded and other video choppy

2005-11-27 Thread Kevin Kuphal
Paul Fielding wrote: Ok, I dunno where else to look. I've searched my brains out and tried just about everything.Using: Knoppmyth R5A22 SP13 motherboard PVR-350 ivtv kernel 0.4.0 ivtvdev - not sure what version, but not current. Found at: http://membres.lycos.fr/bad/ivtvdev_dr

[mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV and native Recording smooth, Transcoded and other video choppy

2005-11-27 Thread Paul Fielding
Ok, I dunno where else to look.  I've searched my brains out and tried just about everything.    Using:   Knoppmyth R5A22 SP13 motherboard PVR-350   ivtv kernel 0.4.0 ivtvdev - not sure what version, but not current. Found at: http://membres.lycos.fr/bad/ivtvdev_drv.o.gz   - PVR 350 i

Re: [mythtv-users] pvr 350 not able to record TV

2005-11-27 Thread sarvinc
On Monday 28 November 2005 03:03 am, Michael T. Dean wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >I'm on a Athlon 64 w Gentoo and a PVR 350 card. Right now I'm using a > > separate video card for video output on an LCD monitor. I've got a > > coaxial cable plugged into the back of the PVR 350. When using "

Re: [mythtv-users] pvr 350 not able to record TV

2005-11-27 Thread sarvinc
On Monday 28 November 2005 03:00 am, Michael T. Dean wrote: > Travis Osterman wrote: > >>I get an empty file. I've tried searching the mailing list, googling, > >> various setup procedures found on the net, and just different values but > >> no luck. I'm not sure what's wrong and any help would be

Re: [mythtv-users] pvr 350 not able to record TV

2005-11-27 Thread Michael T. Dean
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm on a Athlon 64 w Gentoo and a PVR 350 card. Right now I'm using a separate video card for video output on an LCD monitor. I've got a coaxial cable plugged into the back of the PVR 350. When using "cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg" I get an empty file. I've tried searchin

Re: [mythtv-users] pvr 350 not able to record TV

2005-11-27 Thread Travis Osterman
> I've got: > > alias char-major-81 videodev > alias char-major-81-0 ivtv > alias char-major-81-1 ivtv > alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c > #add above ivtv lirc_dev lirc_i2c > > Could it be an improper capture card, video source or input connection setup? > I'll admit I was a bit confused by th

Re: [mythtv-users] pvr 350 not able to record TV

2005-11-27 Thread Michael T. Dean
Travis Osterman wrote: I get an empty file. I've tried searching the mailing list, googling, various setup procedures found on the net, and just different values but no luck. I'm not sure what's wrong and any help would be appreciated. My dmesg looks very similar until the msp stuff (gentoo

Re: [mythtv-users] pvr 350 not able to record TV

2005-11-27 Thread sarvinc
On Monday 28 November 2005 02:11 am, Travis Osterman wrote: > > I get an empty file. I've tried searching the mailing list, googling, > > various setup procedures found on the net, and just different values but > > no luck. I'm not sure what's wrong and any help would be appreciated. > > My dmesg l

Re: [mythtv-users] pvr 350 not able to record TV

2005-11-27 Thread Travis Osterman
> I get an empty file. I've tried searching the mailing list, googling, various > setup procedures found on the net, and just different values but no luck. I'm > not sure what's wrong and any help would be appreciated. My dmesg looks very similar until the msp stuff (gentoo + pvr250). What does y

[mythtv-users] pvr 350 not able to record TV

2005-11-27 Thread sarvinc
I'm on a Athlon 64 w Gentoo and a PVR 350 card. Right now I'm using a separate video card for video output on an LCD monitor. I've got a coaxial cable plugged into the back of the PVR 350. When using "cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg" I get an empty file. I've tried searching the mailing list, googlin

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 and PVR-500

2005-11-22 Thread Kyle Kelly
Brad DerManouelian wrote: Thanks for the responses. Will I be able to use PIP with the 350 and the 500 together through the 350's TV-out? I think that will seal the deal for me. I have a pvr-350 and pvr-500 in a single box. I use the pvr-350's tv-out. PIP works fine. Sure there is the no

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 and PVR-500

2005-11-22 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Jeff Simpson wrote: On 11/22/05, *Brad DerManouelian* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Thanks for the responses. Will I be able to use PIP with the 350 and the 500 together through the 350's TV-out? I think that will seal the deal for me. I could be wrong, b

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 and PVR-500

2005-11-22 Thread Jeff Simpson
On 11/22/05, Brad DerManouelian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for the responses. Will I be able to use PIP with the 350 and the 500 together through the 350's TV-out? I think that will seal the deal for me. I could be wrong, but my answer to that would be "yes and no". While it is technically p

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 and PVR-500

2005-11-22 Thread Brad DerManouelian
Thanks for the responses. Will I be able to use PIP with the 350 and the 500 together through the 350's TV-out? I think that will seal the deal for me.On Nov 22, 2005, at 12:29 AM, mrwester wrote:On 11/21/05, Brad DerManouelian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've currently got everything running VERY n

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 and PVR-500

2005-11-21 Thread mrwester
On 11/21/05, Brad DerManouelian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've currently got everything running VERY nicely (excepttranscoding) on my FC4 box with a PVR-350. I was thinking aboutadding a PVR-500 into the same box. I would continue to use the 350for watching Live TV and playing back recordings, but

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 and PVR-500

2005-11-21 Thread Paul K
  I have a 350 and a 500 in one box. Working just fine together. The one problem I do have is that these two boards are in my slave backend and the backend goes away for some reason ( I wrote a small cron job that checks every hour to see if it's running and starts it if it's not).   Anyways, I do

[mythtv-users] PVR-350 and PVR-500

2005-11-21 Thread Brad DerManouelian
I've currently got everything running VERY nicely (except transcoding) on my FC4 box with a PVR-350. I was thinking about adding a PVR-500 into the same box. I would continue to use the 350 for watching Live TV and playing back recordings, but would use the 500 for scheduled recordings and

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 Question/ Trouble - NEWBIE

2005-11-16 Thread Brent Backstrom
OK, I got it to work late last night   But I patched the kernel to load the frame buffer earlier and now I can't tune...  (See separate post) Thanks for the help. I'll just keep plugging along Jacob Steenhagen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 1

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 Question/ Trouble - NEWBIE

2005-11-16 Thread Jacob Steenhagen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > On 11/15/05, Brent Backstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Trying to put together a myth installation and ran into a snag. >> >> testing by doing >> >> dd if=/dev/video of=/dev/video16 bs=64k >> >> I get sound out of the PVR-350 outputs, but n

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 Question/ Trouble - NEWBIE

2005-11-16 Thread Jeff Simpson
On 11/15/05, Brent Backstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Trying to put together a myth installation and ran into a snag.  testing by doing     dd if=/dev/video of=/dev/video16 bs=64k I get sound out of the PVR-350 outputs, but no output from the composite video? Try using ivtvctl to

[mythtv-users] PVR-350 Question/ Trouble - NEWBIE

2005-11-15 Thread Brent Backstrom
Trying to put together a myth installation and ran into a snag.  testing by doing     dd if=/dev/video of=/dev/video16 bs=64k I get sound out of the PVR-350 outputs, but no output from the composite video? Background Info PVR-350 NO SOUND CARD ( wanting to use PVR-350 audio out

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 + PAL tv, over scan problem.

2005-11-06 Thread Jason Garrett
Sorry, I was typing in a hurry. From what I have been able to devise, regular desktop will not be very usable using the tv out of the pvr350. I have put all my important icons in the center of the screen as well as moved the launch menu to the center of the kicker in KDE. The settings I was refer

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 + PAL tv, over scan problem.

2005-11-06 Thread Joe Votour
There are no settings that you can change in xorg.conf for the PVR-350. The image is overscanned by default in the current drivers, so you'll always lose part of the screen. To compensate for this, you need to change the window dimensions in mythfrontend as Jason mentioned. There are many posts

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 + PAL tv, over scan problem.

2005-11-06 Thread Niklas Palmqvist
Hi Jason. Sorry, but don't understand 100%. So, you only changed the resolution etc, but what settings should I use in xorg.xonf? Can you please post the section from your xorg.xonf, that would help me a lot. Thanks, appreciate it. Niklas --On 11/7/05, Jason Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 + PAL tv, over scan problem.

2005-11-06 Thread Jason Garrett
Hi, I had this same problem while setting up. I had to run the frontend in a window, and set the gui size and offsets to my custom levels. To get everything set, I had to swtich my xorg.conf back to that of my video card, change some settings, then swtich back to the xorg.conf of the pvr350. My

[mythtv-users] PVR-350 + PAL tv, over scan problem.

2005-11-06 Thread Niklas Palmqvist
Hi there. Installing Mythtv with a PVR-350 on FC4. Have gotten X to display on my tv, but I am left with the overscan problem, i.e. I can not see the entire desktop on my tv, which is frustrating. When I try to run mythtv-setup, I can not see the entire screen either, the edges are cut off. Have

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350 TV out and URW font downgrade problems

2005-11-01 Thread Ian Armstrong
On Monday 31 Oct 2005 14:34, Joshua Fechner wrote: > I just installed mythtv using Jarod's guide which was very helpful. I'm > using my PVR-350 as my TV out and initially everything worked fine. > Recently, however, after reading this list I did the URW font downgrade as > described. When I did the

[mythtv-users] PVR 350 TV out and URW font downgrade problems

2005-10-31 Thread Joshua Fechner
I just installed mythtv using Jarod's guide which was very helpful.  I'm using my PVR-350 as my TV out and initially everything worked fine.  Recently, however, after reading this list I did the URW font downgrade as described.  When I did the downgrade, I wasn't able to do the last command (the on

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 sound loop into soundcard

2005-10-28 Thread Joe Votour
Use a stereo RCA to headphone (1/8", is that the size?) cable, and then you can control the volume level using the Line-In input level. That's what worked on my SB Live 5.1 card. (I gave up on this after starting to use Xv on the PVR-350, but it did work). -- Joe --- James Grant <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 sound loop into soundcard

2005-10-28 Thread James Grant
m pretty sure the problem is your mixer. > > Use alsamixer or kmixer to set your capture device to the line-in. > > David > - Original Message - > From: "Jim Reith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Discussion about mythtv" > Sent: Friday, Octo

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 sound loop into soundcard

2005-10-28 Thread Bjarne Wichmann Petersen
Perfect thread to "hijack". I have another "sound-loop" issue. I've got my PVR 350 connected to the TV through the scart-cable that came with the board. This cable also have a small jack that plugs right into the PC's soundcard ("Mic" in this case). The soundcard is then connected to some louds

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 sound loop into soundcard

2005-10-28 Thread David Ellis
I"m pretty sure the problem is your mixer. Use alsamixer or kmixer to set your capture device to the line-in. David - Original Message - From: "Jim Reith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion about mythtv" Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 9:25 AM Subj

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 sound loop into soundcard

2005-10-28 Thread Jim Reith
At 09:19 AM 10/28/2005, you wrote: Hey I have an audio question - with all the hundreds of cables i have lying around here, I haven't found one yet that will take the PVR-350 TV out L/R RCA audio and allow me to feed them back into my sound card's 'Line In'. The cable that i thought for sure wou

[mythtv-users] PVR-350 sound loop into soundcard

2005-10-28 Thread James Grant
Hey I have an audio question - with all the hundreds of cables i have lying around here, I haven't found one yet that will take the PVR-350 TV out L/R RCA audio and allow me to feed them back into my sound card's 'Line In'. The cable that i thought for sure would work is a spare computer speak

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350.. TV-out I can't get sound to work

2005-10-20 Thread Leigh
Nada De nada wrote: Thanks for the advice but I know tha s-video does not carry audio... I just dont; get any audio at all anymore.even when I use mythfrontend to display on the computer screen... so there is not point of me using other cables becuase I am not getting any output from t

RE: [mythtv-users] PVR 350.. TV-out I can't get sound to work

2005-10-20 Thread Nada De nada
   Thanks for the advice but I know tha s-video does not carry audio... I just dont; get any audio at all anymore.even when I use mythfrontend to display on the computer screen... so there is not point of me using other cables becuase I am not getting any output from the sound card"Simpson, Ric

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR 350.. TV-out I can't get sound to work

2005-10-20 Thread Jim Reith
At 12:50 PM 10/20/2005, you wrote: Hi I had mythtv running fine with audio and everything and then tried to get it to display in a TV... I am using the s-video outout and the image is great on the TV but I don;t get any audio anymore. I tried to use the mv msp3400.ko msp3400.ko.orig like Jar

RE: [mythtv-users] PVR 350.. TV-out I can't get sound to work

2005-10-20 Thread Simpson, Richard
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nada De nada > > Hi > > I had mythtv running fine with audio and everything > and then tried to get it to display in a TV... I am > using the s-video outout and the image is great on the > TV but I do

[mythtv-users] PVR 350.. TV-out I can't get sound to work

2005-10-20 Thread Nada De nada
Hi I had mythtv running fine with audio and everything and then tried to get it to display in a TV... I am using the s-video outout and the image is great on the TV but I don;t get any audio anymore. I tried to use the mv msp3400.ko msp3400.ko.orig like Jarod suggests in HOW To but i get thi

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 only records TV at MPEG-1 ??

2005-10-17 Thread Kirk Bocek
Thanks, Matt, I haven't had a chance yet to study Myth's database structure. This will help. Kirk Matt SF wrote: ...and then select using the names for the appearance settings from the table "channel" : ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@my

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 only records TV at MPEG-1 ??

2005-10-16 Thread Matt SF
On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 11:03:14PM -0400, Claude Gélinas agr. wrote: > Le dimanche 16 octobre 2005 à 13:29 -0700, Matt SF a écrit : > what are the setting you did in ivtvctl ? Claude-- I hope my previous post was helpful. you can get the range of commands available with "ivtcvtl -h" an example

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 only records TV at MPEG-1 ??

2005-10-16 Thread Matt SF
On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 03:24:54PM -0700, Kirk Bocek wrote: > Matt, where are the appearance settings located in Myth's MySQL database? > Kirk > when it comes to color, brightness, etc they all seem to live under the channel table. if you go into the db instance...(assuming the defaults...)

Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 only records TV at MPEG-1 ??

2005-10-16 Thread Claude Gélinas agr.
Le dimanche 16 octobre 2005 à 13:29 -0700, Matt SF a écrit : > Thanks, Niklas, Steve and Nick for responding. Nice to actually get some > feedback on the mythtv-users list :) > > > On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 08:13:18PM +0100, Nick wrote: > > On 15/10/05, Matt SF <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >

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