[mythtv-users] AverMedia Card

[Andrew Hogue]

Hi Bill,

Great to not be alone with this problem.

Try this out.  Change the channel to some channel, i.e. 24, then set up a
recording to record a different channel, i.e. 7.  Now view the recording
as it records....

I just tried this and voila, it was recording the first channel (24), it
didn't change the channel automatically.

Hmmm.... weird.  But I can change channels within LiveTV if I'm not
recording ....

Does anyone have an idea as to what is going on here?

-- Andrew




On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Bill Oberman wrote:

> Andrew,
>
> You're not alone. I got the m179 working this weekend with the same effects.
> And, if your setup is like mine, it can start up with the bars & mpeg
> artifacts again at random :-(
>
> I agree with Chris that you shouldn't have to run test_ioctl at all, mythtv
> will do all that for you.  But, as with you, I can't get myth tv to work
> unless I rmmod and modprobe ivtv.  One thing I noticed, check dmesg right
> after boot =
> /bin/dmesg | grep ivtv
> directly after the ivtv load messages I see =
> ivtv: timed out waiting for firmware
> ivtv: ivtv-api.c unknown ioctl 0x803c7601
>
> If I try to run mythtv and watch live tv, in dmesg I see =
> ivtv: timed out waiting for firmware
> (over and over)
>
> If I then rmmod and modprobe ivtv, I get none of those messages anymore, and
> mythtv works.
>
> I've gotten the bars + mpeg effects twice now.  Both times required a
> reboot.  Both times I tried rmmod, modprobe, mythbackend restarts, and tuner
> changes, but nothing worked.
>
> My current setup is CVS myth tv, CVS ivtv + ivtv_gpio_031110.patch (for
> avermedia).  Other things to note.  Ivtv doesn't load automatically, so I
> load it in rc.local as well as mythbackend (in that order).  As with you, if
> ivtv isn't loaded before mythbackend, I can't change channels.
>
> william
>