[mythtv-users] One problem after another (ivtvfwextract)

[Ryszard]

i had problems with this yesterday.  it ended up i had to modify the 
ivtvfwextract.pl file and do some stuff manually.  it _is_ doable, but
a real pita.  i ended up unzipping the exe manually, copying the sys
file into the tmp dir, and modifying the perl script so it wouldnt use
the PID in the directory name (the special perl var $$).

On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 12:30:24 +0100, zardoz at zardoz.ath.cx
<zardoz at zardoz.ath.cx> wrote:
> copy this :
> 
> ftp://ftp.shspvr.com/download/wintv-pvr_250-350/win9x-2k-xp_mpeg_wdm_drv/pvr48wdm_1.8.22037.exe
> 
> to your .....ivtv/utils directory and use
> 
> ./ivtvfwextract.pl pvr48wdm_1.8.22037.exe
> 
> hth
> 
> ---z
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sunday 14 November 2004 08:43, clemens at dwf.com wrote:
> > Well, I seem to progress from one problem to the next.
> >
> > In installing the PVBR-250 driver, it seems that I need some firmware
> > that is extracted from a windows driver.  It APPEARS that the program
> > ivtvfwextract is supposed to do this if you just mount the Hauppauge
> > CD on /mnt/cdrom.
> >
> > Sigh.
> >
> > I have mounted the CD there, and I have tried putting the path to the
> > file in the command line.  In both cases I get exactly the same error
> > message, namely:
> >
> >     [root at MythTV driver]# ./ivtvfwextract.pl pvr250_22_22292.exe
> >     ./ivtvfwextract.pl: Can't open /tmp/ivtvex.4700/hcwpvrp2.sys: No such
> > file or directory
> >
> > I havent examined the program to see why it is trying to open this file
> > and failing, mumph.
> >
> > Again, am I doing something wrong?
> > I did a quick search with GOOGLE and didnt see this firmware anywhere where
> > I could just grab it, so getting the ivtv driver to work is currently a
> > lost cause.
> >
> > Since Im sure Im going to what to do this again later to update this
> > firmware, it would be nice to know what is going wrong here.
> >
> > [[ More and more, Im beginning to believe that my decision to build
> > everyting from scratch, so I could see how it all went together was a bad
> > decision,- ]]
> 
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