[mythtv-users] Running WinFast Leadtek PVR2000

Tomas Roos tomas.roos at gmail.com
Wed Dec 29 23:03:24 UTC 2004


Hello all. Just wanted to share a success story

I got the WinFast LeadTek PVR2000 to work with the latest CVS release
of MythTV. There is a bug causing mythbackend to crash in 0.16 for the
cx88xx chipsets.

Running Mandrake Official 10.1 Download edition with no special
drivers installed. It recognises the cards I have.

I had to set the HUE to zero or else the colors would be inverted more
or less. Now the picture is very good.

Does anyone know when the cx88xx chipsets and the mpeg2 encoding will
begin to work in MythTV and if the support is planned in any way? I
would be very interested in hardware mpeg2 encoding for this card.
Running MPEG4 right now on an AMD Athlon XP1600+ with 70-80% CPU use.
(Watching live TV on the backend)

My system (I am not using the SBLive):

00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc. A7V133/A7V133-C Mainboard
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 8
        Memory at e4000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
        Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 2.0
        Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133
AGP] (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
        Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0
        Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
        Memory behind bridge: de000000-df5fffff
        Prefetchable memory behind bridge: df700000-e3ffffff
        Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

00:04.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super
South] (rev 40)
        Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc. A7V133/A7V133-C Mainboard
        Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 0
        Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

00:04.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
(prog-if 8a [M
aster SecP PriP])
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
        I/O ports at d800 [size=16]
        Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

00:04.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev 16) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
        Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. (Wrong ID) USB Controller
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
        I/O ports at d400 [size=32]
        Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

00:04.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1
Controller (rev 16) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
        Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. (Wrong ID) USB Controller
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
        I/O ports at d000 [size=32]
        Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

00:04.4 Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40)
        Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc. A7V133/A7V133-C Mainboard
        Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9
        Capabilities: [68] Power Management version 2

00:09.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX
[Cyclone] (rev 64)
        Subsystem: 3Com Corporation 3C905B Fast Etherlink XL 10/100
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
        I/O ports at a400 [size=128]
        Memory at dd800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128]
        Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1

00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738 (rev 10)
        Subsystem: C-Media Electronics Inc CMI8738/C3DX PCI Audio Device
        Flags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
        I/O ports at a000 [size=256]
        Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

00:0b.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7892A U160/m (rev 02)
        Subsystem: Adaptec 29160 Ultra160 SCSI Controller
        Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 3
        BIST result: 00
        I/O ports at 9800 [disabled] [size=256]
        Memory at dd000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

00:0c.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Winfast TV2000 XP (rev 05)
        Subsystem: LeadTek Research Inc.: Unknown device 663c
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
        Memory at dc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
        Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2

00:0c.2 Multimedia controller: Conexant: Unknown device 8802 (rev 05)
        Subsystem: LeadTek Research Inc.: Unknown device 663c
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
        Memory at db000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2

00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 07)
        Subsystem: Creative Labs SBLive! Player 5.1
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
        I/O ports at 9400 [size=32]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1

00:0d.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 07)
        Subsystem: Creative Labs Gameport Joystick
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
        I/O ports at 9000 [size=8]
        Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV20 [GeForce3
Ti 200] (rev a3) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
        Subsystem: LeadTek Research Inc.: Unknown device 2861
        Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 248, IRQ 11
        Memory at de000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
        Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
        Memory at df800000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=512K]
        Expansion ROM at df7f0000 [disabled] [size=64K]
        Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [44] AGP version 2.0


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