[mythtv-users] Problems with ivtvdev_drv

[John Harvey]

That looks like the behaviour i would expect with a
new ivtvdev x driver but an ivtv device driver prior
to 108
Are you sure you arent using 100z or something older?
Check the messages file for the version print of ivtv.

John
 --- Eggert Thorlacius <eggi at menandmice.com> wrote: 
> Thank you, thank you, thank you.
> 
> I followed your instructions and managed to compile
> both the IVTV  
> driver and MPlayer (as it turned out, I had
> forgotten to update the  
> kernel source when I upgraded the kernel) and now I
> can play fullscreen  
> videos with "mplayer -vo ivtv".
> 
> However, now the X output looks like this:  
> http://eggert.thorlacius.com/tv.jpg  Is this because
> I didn't apply the  
> X patch?  FC2 doesn't use XFree86, but Xorg
> (currently  
> xorg-x11-6.7.0-9).  Can I apply this patch to it or
> do I have to switch  
> to XFree86 ?
> 
> Regards,
> Eggert
> 
> 
> On 10.11.2004, at 10:26, zardoz at zardoz.ath.cx wrote:
> 
> > If you want to compile the ivtvdev_drv.o you need
> sources for X  
> > installed on
> > your system.
> >
> > I am not very familar with fedora, so I can only
> explain the 'native'  
> > way :
> >
> > wget
>
http://67.18.1.101/~ckennedy/ivtv/ivtv-0.2.0-rc2p.tgz
> > zcat ivtv-0.2.0-rc2p.tgz | tar xvf -
> > cd ivtv-0.2.0-rc2p/driver/
> > make
> > make install
> > cd ../utils/
> > make
> > make install
> > ===============no you have to choices
> > install -c -m 0444 ivtvdev_drv_o  
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/ivtvdev_drv.o
> > ===============or
> > zcat XFree86-4.3-incr-DMA-06.tgz |tar xvf -
> > cd
>
XFree86-4.3-incr-DMA-06/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/ivtv/
> > xmkmf /PATH_TO_X_SOURCE/
> > ==========find your source with find / -name
> xf86.h and include the  
> > 'xc/'
> > make
> > make install
> >
> ===================================================
> >
> ===================================================
> > pray and reboot the box (cold boot better)
> >
> > but even now, the mplayer -vo xv won't work, since
> we still don't have  
> > xv
> > support with that driver. try -vo x11, and if this
> still is choppy,  
> > you could
> > consider either using 'mythtv
> /myth/video/mymovie.mpg' (where you  
> > would have
> > to select the 'use pvr-350 tv-out' in myth
> settings. OR you download
> > wget
> >
>
http://67.18.1.101/~ckennedy/ivtv/ivtv_apps/MPlayer-1.0pre5-ivtv-osd
> 
> > -4.tgz
> > zcat MPlayer-1.0pre5-ivtv-osd-4.tgz |tar xvf -
> > cd MPlayer-1.0pre5-ivtv-osd-4
> > ./configure
> > make
> > make install
> > with this patched version of mplayer you could use
> -vo ivtv or -vo  
> > ivtvosd
> > keep in mind that this mplayer would try to access
> ivtv directly, as  
> > the
> > xdriver does, so they will fight against each
> other.
> > you have to play with the ivtvfbctl and the
> global/local alpha  
> > settings.......
> >
> >
> > hth
> >
> > ---z
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tuesday 09 November 2004 23:24, Eggert
> Thorlacius wrote:
> >> Hi all
> >>
> >> I am sorry that I have to keep posting to the
> list, but I have
> >> completely lost sight of what I am doing and I'm
> just running around  
> >> in
> >> the dark by now.
> >>
> >> I tried downloading the source of IVTV to get a
> new ivtvdev_drv.o  
> >> file,
> >> as Prash recommended, but I can't get the source
> to compile (neither
> >> from ivtv-0.1.9a.tar.gz nor CVS-LATEST.tar.gz). 
> I went to the
> >> http://membres.lycos.fr/badzzzz/ and downloaded
> the source of the
> >> driver from there, but when I built it, I did not
> get a ivtvdev_drv.o
> >> file, but a bunch of .ko files.  Installing them
> had no apparent
> >> effect.
> >>
> >> Running mplayer without the "-vo xv" apparently
> decodes the mpgs in
> >> software and my machine can't handle that, so in
> order to enable the
> >> hardware decoding, I need ivtvdev_drv.o.
> >>
> >> Jarod's Guide says: "Note that the ivtvdev X
> driver is included with
> >> the ck-series ivtv drivers, so no need to fetch
> it, just use it. Or so
> >> I believe. Gotta get my EPIA back up and
> running..."  What does this
> >> mean?  Does the driver from atrpms work (for
> everyone except me, that
> >> is)?  If not, where can I fetch it?  Can someone
> who has gotten the
> >> source to compile send me a copy of the driver? 
> Do I need a different
> >> version of the driver because I'm using PAL?  And
> once I get the
> >> driver, where do I install it?  Why does apt-get
> install the driver in
> >> /usr/X11R6/lib/Server/modules/drivers, where X
> (apparently) can't find
> >> it?
> >>
> >> There is GeForce2 MX/MX 400 video card with
> TV-Out in my machine as
> >> well.  Do you think that I will have more success
> if I tried to  
> >> connect
> >> the TV to that card?  I'd still need to make the
> PVR-350 handle the
> >> decoding, so I'd still need the driver, right?
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance for any pointers,
> >> Eggert
> >>
> >> On 9.11.2004, at 12:54, Eggert Thorlacius wrote:
> >>> On 9.11.2004, at 10:59, Prash wrote:
> >>>> As it says you don't have a X driver with Xv
> support. Remove the -vo
> >>>> xv from the command . Are you using the patched
> mplayer from atrpms?
> >>>
> >>> Yes, I'm using the mplayer that I got from
> "apt-get install
> >>> mythtv-suite".  If I remove the -vo xv from the
> command, mplayer  
> >>> plays
> >>> really jerkily and says that my computer is too
> slow to play video.
> >>> Anyway, MythTV uses "mplayer -vo xv" when
> playing movies from my  
> >>> movie
> >>> library, so I need to fix this in order to get
> MythTV to work, right?
> >>>
> >>>> Try using the ivtvdev driver that came with the
> source.
> >>>
> >>> OK, I'll try that when I get home.  But if I get
> the latest version  
> >>> of
> >>> the driver from CVS, will it work with the rest
> of the components
> >>> which I downloaded from atrpms?  Also, is this a
> known problem with
> 
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