[mythtv-users] PVR 250 -- strange output

Allen T. Gilliland IV alleng4 at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 30 17:31:57 UTC 2003


are you supposed to?

from the ivtv stuff i've read i have only heard of
using:
i2c-core
i2c-algo-bit
tuner type=2 (assuming ntsc)
videodev
saa7115
ivtv

never anything about msp4300 ... ??

--- Chuck Ferring <chuckf at fullplaymedia.com> wrote:
> Did you load the msp3400 module?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Davis [mailto:ben at xsusio.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 9:39 PM
> To: mythtv-users at snowman.net
> Subject: [mythtv-users] PVR 250 -- strange output 
> 
> Well, after much blood, sweat, and tears I'm able to
> get live video from
> 
> my WinTV PVR 250 through /dev/video0.  The only way
> I can watc it right 
> now is using "mplayer /dev/video0".. and that's
> without sound (haven't 
> figured that out yet)
> 
> I've successfully compiled the latest CVS of mythtv
> and set it up 
> according to the docs. When I get to using
> mythfrontend it freezes when 
> I click on "Watch TV".
> 
> Here's output from mythbackend:
> -----------------------------------
> Starting up as the master server.
> Probed: /dev/video0 - Composite 0
> Probed: /dev/video0 - Composite 1
> Probed: /dev/video0 - Composite 2
> Probed: /dev/video0 - Composite 3
> Probed: /dev/video0 - Tuner 0
> Probed: /dev/video0 - Composite 4
> Probed: /dev/video0 - S-Video 0
> Probed: /dev/video0 - S-Video 1
> Probed: /dev/video0 - S-Video 2
> Probed: /dev/video0 - S-Video 3
> VIDIOCGPICT: Invalid argument
> VIDIOCGPICT: Invalid argument
> VIDIOCGPICT: Invalid argument
> 
> ..and after I start mythfrontend:
> 
> 2003-04-29 23:33:33 adding: <hostname> as a player 1
> 2003-04-29 23:33:38 adding: <hostname> as a player 0
> 2003-04-29 23:33:38 adding: <hostname> as a player 0
> 2003-04-29 23:33:38adding: <hostname> as a remote
> ringbuffer
> Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
> strange error flushing buffer ...
>
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> 
> and that's it. I can't do anything in mythfrontend
> after this so I have 
> to kill it. Do the errors shown above have anything
> to do with this? 
> Could it have something to do with the fact that I
> haven't gotten sound 
> working yet? Any help is greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ben Davis
> 
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