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

John Harvey john.p.harvey at btinternet.com
Sun Dec 26 09:22:04 UTC 2004


The fix went into rc3b :)

Also from what I have read vide= doesn't work any more. People seemed to
have made it work with vga=xxx but I can't remember what xxx should be.

It seems like a bodge that forces the resolution required to one that the
350 doesn't support therefore stopping it being used as a console.

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: 26 December 2004 02:12
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV-Out - Having Limited Success
> 
> 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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