[mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV-Out - Having Limited Success

[Jeff Simpson]

what revision of the card do you have?

I have rev 990, the following commands change green to good:

ivtvctl -j reg=0x6c,val=0xfe -d /dev/video0
ivtvctl -j reg=0x61,val=0xb1 -d /dev/video0

You may want to try other commands as well. ivtvctl -J will give you a
hex dump of all the registers accessible to the video out module. I've
determined what a few of them are, but it differs between revisions,
so it may not be helpful. 0x6C seemed to be color fixing and minor
horizontal adjustment. 0x61 is a color adjustment, making the colors
less bland :-)

look through the ivtv archives to see my findings on that card if it's
the same card you have

 - Jeff

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 14:21:52 -0600, Matt Mencel <mr-mencel at wiu.edu> wrote:
> I'm running FC3 (2.6.9-1.681_FC3) and have used Jarod's HOWTO to get this
> far.  My PVR-350 is fairly new and boasts the Type 47 tuner.
> 
> Last night I finally was able to successfully get SOMETHING on my TV.  I
> went through the steps in Jarod's guide.  I was able to record a signal off
> of /dev/video and play it back in mplayer...and also view it live and tune
> to different channels using the ptune-ui applet.  I never got a clear signal
> though.  I could see colors and see the picture shifting when something
> changed on the screen, but it was all in thin diagonal strips going from the
> upper left side to the lower right side...with lots of black interlaced
> between and around the colored diagonals.
> 
> So I stopped messing with that and went on to trying to get it onto my TV.
> When I start '/sbin/modprobe ivtv' my TV screen goes all green.  Then when I
> start '/sbin/modprobe ivtv-fb' my TV gets alternating green/pink or
> green/white snowyish stripes going diagonally down from upper left to lower
> right.  Then I attempted to feed the PVR-350 input straight through to the
> TV-OUT using 'dd if=/dev/video0 of=/dev/video16 bs=64k'.  As soon as I did
> that I got a ghost image of the TV feed coming through behind the
> green/pink/white stripes.  I could see outlines of people and objects but
> definitely no details.  The audio was coming through just fine.
> 
> So now...that's where I'm at.  Has anyone seen similar issues to this that
> might help me figure out the problem so I can get this going?
> 
> Thanks,
> Matt
> 
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