[mythtv-users] M179 audio issues/ATrpms ivtv kmdl

Nathan Goff mythtv at thegoffs.org
Mon Feb 9 16:10:54 EST 2004


They are patched as of yesterday.  I did a fresh install with Jarod's 
guide and my 2 M179's are working wonderfully!

Nathan

Kristo Kriechbaum wrote:

>I thought that the ivtv rpms from ATrpms already had the patch for the
>M179.  Then I found this from a few weeks ago:
>
>  From: jcw at wilsonet.com  
>  Re:M179 Problem / Jarod's Fedora Guide
>  --snip--
>  The latest ivtv rpms are missing the patch for M179 audio at the
>  moment. I've contacted Axel about it. The alternatives are 1)
>  manually download and install the older ones, 2) install a patched
>  ivtv from source yourself or 3) wait for updated rpms with M179
>  audio support.
>
>So when I get home I guess I'll try patching stuff myself, unless the
>ivtv ATrpms do in fact have the patch already...
>
>Kristo
>
>On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 09:21:48AM -0500, Dennis Hand wrote:
>  
>
>>  Well join the club. I finally have mine working really good
>>now. Not sure if your using alsa or not but I would change back to
>>/dev/dsp. I'm also going to assume that you have applied the patch
>>to the M179 for audio. If so, try this it worked for me. When you
>>bring up live tv for the first time and you hear nothing but static,
>>get back out of frontend, do a test_ioctl -p ? to an incorrect one
>>then back to your correct setting. Go back into frontend and watch
>>TV and see if that works. This is what I had to do at first to get
>>TV to work but it's all fixed now. The M179 still has some driver
>>issues that need to be ironed out.  Dennis
>>
>>On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 11:26:46PM -0800, Kristo Kriechbaum wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>I am having 2 different audio issues with my M179 card.  I have
>>>video coming in on the composite connector, and audio in via the
>>>headphone jack.  I can capture video just great from the command
>>>line (cat /dev/video0 > /tmp/test.mpg), and it plays back with no
>>>problem.
>>>
>>>problem 1: The audio has a slight static/crackling in it when I
>>>play the captured test.mpg back.  Not a huge deal but annoying.
>>>
>>>problem 2: When I try to use the card to watch tv in myth, the
>>>only sound I get is completely static.  I have tried to run
>>>'setup', go > into capture cards, select [MPEG:/dev/video0], and
>>>set the Audio > device to (none).  Once I exit and go back in to
>>>make sure the changes > stuck, Audio device is set do /dev/dsp56k.
>>>
>>>One other separate (maybe?) but odd thing is if I go into
>>>mythfrontend->setup->TvSettings->Recording Profiles and select
>>>MPEG 2 > Encoders, it doesn't show any profiles at all.  If I go
>>>ahead and hit > enter again, it takes me to a profile with an
>>>empty name that i can't > change.  I can change other settings for
>>>the profile, but they are > _not_ saved.
>>>
>>>Pertinent system info:
>>>myth 0.14-58 from atrpms
>>>ivtv-0.1.9-24 from atrpms
>>>ivtv-firmware-17_21288 from atrpms
>>>Avermedia m179
>>>ATI TV-wonder ve
>>>
>>>I searched around the archives but couldn't find anything.  Thanks
>>>in advance for any help :-)
>>>
>>>Kristo
>>>      
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