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

John Harvey john.p.harvey at btinternet.com
Sat Dec 25 22:42:38 UTC 2004


Current versions of ivtv should work ok.
Anything that is over a couple of weeks old has problems but there are some
workarounds with kernel boot options. I think it's a vga= option. You should
be able to find it if you search on the ivtv-dev mailing list.

John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists)
> Sent: 25 December 2004 13:18
> To: mr-mencel at wiu.edu; Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV-Out - Having Limited Success
> 
> Matt,
> 
> I have just given up on FC3 - there sees to be problems with the ivtv_fb
> driver under FC3.
> 
> I'm going back to FC2 - I had a fully stable system running for months.
> 
> Last time I upgrade without reason :)
> 
> M.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matt Mencel" <mr-mencel at wiu.edu>
> To: "'Discussion about mythtv'" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 6:51 AM
> Subject: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV-Out - Having Limited Success
> 
> 
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ------
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users



More information about the mythtv-users mailing list