[mythtv-users] AverMedia Card

[Andrew Hogue]

Hi,

Well, the problem I just emailed to the list seems to have disappeared.

I cold-booted the system and killed the mythbackend/frontend's and then
modprobed the ivtv module, then I did all of the test_ioctl's that I
needed, rmmod'd the ivtv module, modprobed it again and everything works
fine again.  The image quality is perfect without the vertical bars.

Does anyone have any idea what that might have been?

-- Andrew


On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Andrew Hogue wrote:

> Hi again,
>
> Okay, well I'm using Myth0.12 and I still need to do the test_ioctl's in
> order to use the capture card for some reason.
>
> However, I just ran into a strange issue and was wondering if any of you
> have experienced this one?
>
> Everything was working perfectly fine with the M179 card.  Then I rebooted
> to see if everything would work after a reboot...
>
> Now, the image looks worse.  I have vertical lines throughout the image
> and the mpeg artifacts are worse than before.
>
> I rmmod'ed the ivtv module and then modprobed it again, restarted the
> mythbackend and same thing.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> -- Andrew
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Harondel J. Sibble wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On 7 Dec 2003 at 0:09, Chris Pinkham wrote:
> >
> > > Why do you need to do these, Myth should set all that stuff automatically. I
> > > don't remember having to specify any of that other than maybe a tuner line in
> > > modules.conf.
> >
> > Dunno about 0.12, but this is necessary under 0.11
> >
> > $ cat /etc/ivtvsetup
> > #!/bin/sh
> > ### set input standard to ntsc
> > /usr/local/bin/test_ioctl -d /dev/video0 -u 0x3000
> > ### set capture input to tuner (switch input types
> > ### to deal with bug in firmware that causes
> > ### banding in the image
> > /usr/local/bin/test_ioctl -d /dev/video0 -p 3
> > /usr/local/bin/test_ioctl -d /dev/video0 -p 4
> > ### set capture resolution to ntsc
> > /usr/local/bin/test_ioctl -d /dev/video0 -f width=720,height=480
> > ### set capture stream output to dvd compliant format
> > /usr/local/bin/test_ioctl -d /dev/video0 -c stream_type=10
> >
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