[mythtv-users] PVR-250 no longer captures

[Gary Te Young]

I currently have this error too.  I found that if I load the modules via
a command line I can get around this error.  I have a PVR-350 and PlayTV
pro card.

modprobe ivtv (PVR-350)
insmod bttv gbuffers=32 radio=1 card=37 (PlayTV pro)
test_ioctl -p 0
test_ioctl -u 255

for some reason I can then 'mplayer /dev/video0' and get audio and
video.  I haven't investigated why this is happening I just know that
this routine works for me. 

I hope this helps.

Gary Te Young

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at snowman.net] On Behalf Of Steve
Sent: Thursday, 29 May 2003 4:40 p.m.
To: mythtv-users at snowman.net
Subject: [mythtv-users] PVR-250 no longer captures

I had it working, honest :) Except for some ghosting in my captures I
thought I was home free.  But now my PVR-250 no longer does a test
capture,
and gives me:

#cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg
cat: /dev/video0: Input/output error

Syslog tells me:

May 28 23:05:00 pvr kernel: ivtv: init error 1. Code -16
May 28 23:05:01 pvr kernel: ivtv: init error 2. Code -16
May 28 23:05:02 pvr kernel: ivtv: init error 3. Code -16
May 28 23:05:03 pvr kernel: ivtv: init error 4. Code -16
May 28 23:05:04 pvr kernel: ivtv: init error 5. Code -16
May 28 23:05:05 pvr kernel: ivtv: init error 6. Code -16
May 28 23:05:06 pvr kernel: ivtv: init error 7. Code -16
[...]
May 28 23:05:18 pvr kernel: ivtv: init error 18. Code -16
May 28 23:05:18 pvr kernel:
May 28 23:05:19 pvr kernel: ivtv: init error 20. Code -16
May 28 23:05:20 pvr kernel: ivtv: startcap error 2. Code -16
May 28 23:05:21 pvr kernel: ivtv: init error 19. Code -16
May 28 23:05:21 pvr kernel:
May 28 23:05:22 pvr kernel: ivtv: startcap error 1. Code -16
May 28 23:05:25 pvr kernel: ivtv: Timeout waiting for data!

The last steps I took were to run this to fix the ghosting and reboot:

./test_ioctl  --set-codec-params=dnr_mode=0,dnr_temporal=0

Rebooted several times and still can't get a simple cat /dev/video0
capture.  This is more likely a ivtv thing, but I thought I would try
here
first and see if anyone has run into it.  I'm running Mandrake 9.1,
CVS'd
mythtv, ivtv with Hauppauge drive pvr250_16_21062.exe.  Any ideas?

Thanks to the developers for all their efforts.

Steve

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