[mythtv-users] Re: TV-Out with Matrox Marvel G400-TV

Stefan Frank sfr+lists at 6913304088794.gnuu.de
Tue Jul 1 22:53:57 EDT 2003


Hi wayne,

i use the same card (but the newer type with the blue breakout box) and
it works just fine.

Here's the setting of some tables:

CaptureCard:

 cardid  	 videodevice  	 audiodevice  	 vbidevice  	 
   1           	/dev/video0 	/dev/dsp 	/dev/vbi0

cardtype  defaultinput 	 audioratelimit  hostname   use_ts   dvb_type
V4L 	   Television    0               obelix     NULL     NULL


CardInput:

cardinputid     cardid  sourceid        inputname       externalcommand
1               1       1               Television

preference  	 shareable  	 tunechan  	 startchan
NULL             N               E5              E9


Why do you use /dev/video1? You mentioned you had another card
installed in the past as card 1, so i'd guess the g400 should be #0.
But it should work nonetheless.

Can you watch TV with the g400 using xawtv? Maybe post the output of

    xawtv -hwscan

Here's what it says on my system:

looking for available devices
port 55-55
    type : Xvideo, image scaler
    name : Matrox G-Series Backend Scaler

/dev/video0: OK                         [ -device /dev/video0 ]
    type : v4l
    name : mgacap-0
    flags: overlay capture tuner chromakey

/dev/video1: Das Geraet oder die Ressource ist belegt

Maybe it gave you another idea to check?

HTH, Stefan

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