[mythtv-users] PVR-500 (MCE?) Firmware

[John Clabaugh]

On 7/19/05, cythrault at gmail.com <cythrault at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I wanted to let you know that I prevailed against a PVR-500. :)
> 
> I had the oh-so-common static / back screen. While Googling about it I
> found a "bug report" for Jarod's guide filed by Niklas :
> 
> http://svn.wilsonet.com/projects/mythtvology/ticket/20
> 
> … which says that the message from the ivtv driver about using the
> recommended firmware version is "nothing to be worried about". Well,
> sorry Jarod, it's not. ;)
> 
> I downloaded the right firmware. I had to shutdown for a minute but
> after that everything started working like a charm.
> 
> I don't know if it's a issue with the MCE version of the PVR-500 or
> certain revisions of the card. Anyhow, here's the output of lspci -vv:
> 
> 02:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16
> (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
>        Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc.: Unknown device e807
>        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
> ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>        Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium
> >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>        Latency: 64 (32000ns min, 2000ns max), Cache Line Size 08
>        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
>        Region 0: Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
>        Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
>                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA
> PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
>                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
> 
> 02:09.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16
> (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
>        Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc.: Unknown device e817
>        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
> ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>        Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium
> >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>        Latency: 64 (32000ns min, 2000ns max), Cache Line Size 08
>        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
>        Region 0: Memory at e4000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
>        Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
>                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA
> PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
>                Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> --
> cyth
> 
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> 

Is your tuner PAL or NTSC?  I have a 500MCE version D492 (NTSC) that I
can't get audio on the second channel.  If you have the same, I'd love
to know how you got the audio to work.