[mythtv-users] bttv driver & Aver Studio TV Tuner

Harley Peters harley at hpeters.net
Mon Jul 28 12:56:37 EDT 2003


Saravanan Subbiah wrote:
> I have tried everything I can to make AverStudio and Myth TV work for
> the past 1 week.
> 
> With bttv 0.7.107 driver it simply won't work. Most of the time the
> screen comes blank. Some lucky times that it comes up, I find that on a
> couple of channel changes mythtv freezes. The back end keeps on printing
> VIDIOCSYNC0: Invalid argument
> VIDIOCSYNC1: Invalid argument
> 
> But 0.7 works well with xawtv.
> 
> With bttv 0.9.12 driver, the driver itself locks up most of the time on
> channel change. Mythtv come up "most" of the time without the blank
> screen phenomenon but either locks the driver in a couple of channel
> change (and I have to go thru a rmmod + modprobe sequence) or gets back
> to printing VIDIOSYNC error !!
> 
> Now I am seriously thinking if anyone has a working AverTV + bttv +
> MythTV combo, if so can you please share the secret. 'coz I am losing it
> !!
> 
> -Saravanan
> 
> PS : Just to add that I have tried gbuffers option, sloppy option etc.
> but in vain.
> 
> 
> 
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Try setting bttv in modules.conf to one of the two values.

bttv audiomux=0xff4e

or

bttv audiomux=0x56664e    This one worked for me.

Harley Peters




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