On Saturday 29 October 2005 05:23 pm, Analabha Roy wrote:
Well I finally got both tuners to work and mythtv to talk to them properly. I had to upgrade my ivtv drivers to 4.0 BUT keep the ivtvdev tv-out driver from the 0.3.3. Then I had to install new firmware from ivtvdriver.org and use ivtvctl to direct input to the right port in the pvr150. It was messy, but it works. Now, to back it all up before my PVR explodes... Anyway, I got pics of my setup at: http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~daneel/photoalbum/DigikamHTMLExport3/pvr/index.html http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~daneel/photoalbum/KIPIHTMLExport/pvrback/index.html http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~daneel/photoalbum/KIPIHTMLExport2/pvr2/index.html > Hi, > > I know that some of you fine folks have built mythtv PVR's, so I'd like to > detail my own humble endeavor in these waters. > > > My system: > An old Compaq Deskpro (P-III) with 256 Mb RAM > Stuffed a Seagate Barracuda 7200 rpm 120 gig hd in there > Tuner is the Hauppauge PVR-350 with the tv-out piped to my tv > > > Well, I downloaded knoppmyth and installed in in there. I compiled the > ivtv driver (version 0.3.3) and the ivtv-framebuffer and X11 drivers for > the tv-out and compiled lirc for the hauppauge silver remote. The hardware > decoding in the pvr 350 more then makes up for the crappy cpu and I get > excellent video off of the tv-out. The only beef was that since I had only > 1 tuner, I couldn'tplayback live tv and record at the same time. > > So I got another tuner. The Hauppauge pvr150MCE. This puppy also has > hardware decoding so there shuld be no problems. I added a line > in /etc/mythtv/modules/ivtv for this tuner and rebooted. It loaded up fine, > and the device files are there (/dev/video0 for the 350, /dev/video1 for > the 150). I ram mplayer on them (mplayer /dev/video0 and mplayer > /dev/video1) and got television playback from both. > > In mythtv, however, the story was different. I fired up mythtv-setup and, > in "Capture Cards" I added the second tuner ("MPEG Encoder, /dev/video1, > tuner 0") below the config for the first (pvr350, which was "MPEG > Encoder, /dev/video0, tuner0"). and linked my datadirect subscription to > the tuner0 on /dev/video1 in the "Input Connections" section. I then went > to "General" and "Host-Specific Backend" and configged "Maximum > simultaneous jobs in backend" to 2. > Now, whenever I try to play live tv in mythtv, it's a slideshow. Picture > and sound are impossibly skippy and slow. WTF, I say to myself and check on > mplayer. Works fine there for both tuners! so now I'm confused and dunno > how to fix this problem. I'd sure appreciate some advice from the gurus in > mythtvland who peruse this fine forum. I have some config details below: > > > Thanks for your attention. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/mythtv/modules/ivtv > alias char-major-81 videodev > alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c > > alias char-major-81-0 ivtv > alias char-major-81-1 ivtv > > > #options tuner type=50 > #options ivtv debug=0 > > options ivtv ivtv_debug=0 > options msp3400 once=1 simple=1 > options saa7127 i2c_enable=1,-1 > options cx25840 i2c_enable=1 no_black_magic=1 > install ivtv /sbin/modprobe tuner; /sbin/modprobe msp3400; /sbin/modprobe > saa711 5; /sbin/modprobe > --ignore-install ivtv; /sbin/modprobe ivtv-fb; /sbin/modpr > obe lirc_i2c > remove ivtv /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove ivtv && /sbin/modprobe -r > saa7115 && /sbin/modprobe -r > msp3400 && /sbin/modprobe -r tuner && /sbin/modprobe e ivtv > -fb && /sbin/modprobe -r lirc_i2c > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ivtvctl -d /dev/video1 -a|grep PVR > ioctl: VIDIOC_G_OUTPUT failed > Card type : WinTV PVR 150 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ivtvctl -d /dev/video0 -a|grep PVR > Card type : WinTV PVR 350 > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$uname -r > 2.6.11.9-chw-2 -- =========== Analabha Roy Graduate Student RLM 7.206 Department Of Physics University Of Texas 1 University Station C1600 Austin TX 78712-0264 United States Emails: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~daneel _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list Siglinux@utacm.org http://www.utacm.org:81/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
