[mythtv-users] PVR-350, unable to get TV-Out

jose rubio debian at nc.rr.com
Wed Nov 26 08:18:28 EST 2003


On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 12:50, Dan Fleming wrote:
> I recently purchased a PVR-350.  I followed the howto posted recently to
> the lists.  I was able to get the colored-bar test image on the screen
> once, and only once and this is the part that is bugging me...
> 
> running "dd if=/dev/video0 of=/dev/video16 bs=64k" I get audio with a
> bunch of snow on the screen.  I know that the mpeg stream being read is
> correct because I have "cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg" and copied the file
> to another machine and played it.  Upon trying to step through the howto
> again is when I discovered I was unable to display the test image again.
> 
> Any ideas or help would be very welcome.  Also, does anyone have a link
> to where I can find more information about the ivtv, saa7127 module
> options?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> ---Dan
> ----
> 
What do you get when you use test.mpg as the in-file for the "dd" test? 
Also, make sure you are not loading ivtv-fb just yet.  IIRC if ivtv-fb
is loaded you will not get the test image unless you change some
settings.

-jose-



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