[mythtv-users] Re: Avermedia M179 issues w/ CVS Myth on 2.4.x kernel

[Johnny Lee]

I am using the Tuner 0 input from the M179. It was the 4th option and when I
did the command line test_ioctl -p 4 that's when I got it to work. Actually
livetv works fine. It's just when I hit record it goes nutts and stops
working. So basically I reset the ivtv driver, restart mythbackend, run
livetv.. Then it works. Hit record, dies. Do the whole thing again but wait
for a scheduled recording and it dies. Maybe I just have a bad card? 


Johnny Lee

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[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Dennis Hand
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 7:42 AM
To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
Subject: [mythtv-users] Re: Avermedia M179 issues w/ CVS Myth on 2.4.x
kernel

> I decided to buy the Avermedia M179 card at frys for $40 and swap out my 
> BTTV card. Big mistake. The most I can get the sucker to work is watch 
> livetv. Once it trys to record it bombs. Most of the time Livetv doesn't 
> work either but I restart the ivtv driver and it works. I'm running the 
> apt-get latest version of ivtv 0.1.9 I believe. Anyone have any
suggestions 
> as to something I can try that might make this stable like my BTTV card
was? 
> I am considering putting the BTTV card back in and returning this to Frys.


> Johnny Lee

Sounds like you have a wrong input selected. If your using S-Video you need
to choose input #4 S-Video0 I believe. I just installed one about a month
ago and noticed that there are still only 5 inputs to choose from. There
should be 10. If you had that many then input #8 would be what you would
want if using S-Video. At one time I thought Axel had put this fix into his
rpm's. There was one line that needed to be removed from Chris Pinkham's
patch. I have gone this route before with using just a plain vanilla kernel
and compiling the ivtv-0.1.9 driver along with this patch and you then get
10 inputs. S-Video works beautifully. This was the problem(s) most people
were(are) having with the M179 card. This is the fix for the patch:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/59088?search_string=M179%
20yuan;#59088

-Dennis