[mythtv-users] Black screen when using "pvr-350 decoder/tv-out" option

Oscar Curero oscar at naiandei.net
Mon Jul 4 17:18:24 EDT 2005


El Lunes, 4 de Julio de 2005 20:55, Oscar Curero escribió:
> Hi,
>
> I almost see the light at the end of the tunnel. Without the option "Use
> pvr-350 decoder/tv-out" (settings -> Tv settings) the picture was slow and
> choppy with skipping frames. Reading the mail list I found the solution: I
> should us the decoder instead of  the framebuffer, so I actived that option
> and now I have... nothing. Black screen. The gui works, but the Livetv
> doesn't.
>
> Capture card device: /dev/video0
> Pvr-350 decoder (mythtv): /dev/video16
>
Oops! I forgot that:

1- In the command line with this two commands I can see and heard the TV:

ivtvfbctl /dev/fb1 -noglobalalpha -localalpha
dd if=/dev/video of=/dev/video16 bs=64k

2- Output of mythfrontend is:

2005-07-04 23:10:45.207 New DB connection, total: 1
Total desktop width=720, height=576, numscreens=1<----------------- PAL
2005-07-04 23:10:45.256 Using screen 0, 720x576 at 0,0 <----------------- PAL
2005-07-04 23:10:45.262 mythfrontend version: 0.18.1.20050510-1 www.mythtv.org
2005-07-04 23:10:45.263 Enabled verbose msgs : important general
2005-07-04 23:10:45.870 Switching to square mode (Iulius)
2005-07-04 23:10:46.197 Joystick disabled.
2005-07-04 23:10:46.199 New DB connection, total: 2
2005-07-04 23:10:46.289 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin.
2005-07-04 23:10:47.312 Registering MythMusic Media Handler as a media handler
2005-07-04 23:11:02.239 Connecting to backend server: 192.168.0.5:6543 (try 1 
of 5)
2005-07-04 23:11:02.245 Using protocol version 15
2005-07-04 23:11:02.290 Using protocol version 15
2005-07-04 23:11:03.566 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp'.
2005-07-04 23:11:03.566 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp'.
2005-07-04 23:11:03.571 Using resampler. From: 0 to 1000
Using the PVR-350 decoder/TV-out <--------------------------- RIGHT
2005-07-04 23:11:03.915 Realtime priority would require SUID as root.
2005-07-04 23:11:03.936 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
Writing to videodev: Invalid Argument <------------------------PROBLEM?????


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