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

Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) michael-mlists at cheshire.id.au
Sun Dec 26 02:12:21 UTC 2004


Trying with ivtv-0.2.0-rc3a from RPM.

The video=vc:0-0 has no effect - still get segfault.

M.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Harvey" <john.p.harvey at btinternet.com>
To: "'Discussion about mythtv'" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>; 
<mr-mencel at wiu.edu>
Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2004 9:12 AM
Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV-Out - Having Limited Success


> 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
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
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