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

Michael Cheshire (Mailing Lists) michael-mlists at cheshire.id.au
Sun Dec 26 12:37:32 UTC 2004


Found it - now that I knew what to search for.

Cheers big ears :)

M.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Harvey" <john.p.harvey at btinternet.com>
To: "'Discussion about mythtv'" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2004 7:52 PM
Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] PVR-350 TV-Out - Having Limited Success


> 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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