[mythtv-users] AverMedia Card

[Andrew Hogue]

Hi again,

Okay so I found a site which had all of the firmware updates.  I tried the
latest few only to find that the video quality was noisy or had a
checkerboard pattern on it... :(

The one older firmware won't extract with the latest version of
ivtvfwextract.pl.

And there was an issue with the latest firmware, first off, I scheduled a
recording and it didn't change the channel... but when I tried to stop the
recording (by deleting it) it didn't stop.  I had to kill mythbackend.

However, now I have a real problem.  Everytime I start mythbackend, it
resumes the recording.  How do I cancel it?

-- Andrew



On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Andrew Hogue wrote:

> Hi Chris,
>
> Thanks for the reply.  I tried downloading the firmware you said you
> used... well I couldn't find a link on the Hauppauge website so I tried
> downloading differently named firmware files that had 203010 in the
> filename.
>
>
> > >>Just for reference, I tested this using encoder firmware v2.03.010 on
> > >>a P2-400 system running Redhat 9 and ivtv CVS as of Nov 11, 2003.
>
> I was able to download: pvr250_15_203010.exe from the site, which I'm
> guessing is the same version that you were using?
>
> Well, I couldn't use ivtvfwextract.pl on it, I get this error message:
>
> [root at localhost utils]# ./ivtvfwextract.pl ./pvr250_15_20310.exe
>
> ./ivtvfwextract.pl: Can't open /tmp/ivtvex.4574/hcwpvrp2.sys: No such file
> or directory
>
> Could you provide a link to the appropriate firmware that you used for
> your Avermedia card?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- Andrew
>
>
>  On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Chris Pinkham wrote:
>
> > > I'm using the pvr250_17_21226.exe firmware which is the one I got from
> > > Jason Schloer's post:
> > > http://www.gossamer-threads.com/perl/mailarc/gforum.cgi?post=92973;search_string=avermedia%20firmware;guest=1734657&t=search_engine#92973
> > >
> > > I couldn't find a posting from you that said which firmware you are using,
> > > maybe later tonight you could check and email it to me.
> >
> > Did you check the ivtv mailing list?  I found my message, but just to
> > save you and anyone else the trouble, here's the text of it (with me
> > quoting myself):
> >
> > >>> I have created a patch against current CVS which enables the ivtv driver
> > >>> to work with the AVerMedia M179 iTVC15-based TV card.
> >
> > >>Just for reference, I tested this using encoder firmware v2.03.010 on
> > >>a P2-400 system running Redhat 9 and ivtv CVS as of Nov 11, 2003.
> >
> >
> > So I guess that was me quoting myself quoting myself...
> >
> > --
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >
>