[mythtv-users] Tuning a Plextor TV402U
Graham Morrison
listall at gmail.com
Mon Jun 13 09:34:43 UTC 2005
Stefan,
Thanks for your reply. I have actually managed to get everything
working, using the Plextor TV402U, Mandriva SE and MythTV, and apart
from the usual hoops you have to jump through, I think it all works
well.
To outline briefly what I needed to do:
1) Used the standard 2.6.11-6mdk kernel and installed kernel-source.
2) Downloaded wis-go7007-linux-0.9.4 from Plextor's site. Compiled
this without any difficulty. I did needed to move the installed
modules from:
'/lib/modules/2.6.11-6mdkcustom/extra'
to...
'/lib/modules/2.6.11-6mdk'/kernel/3rdparty/plextor'
followed by 'depmod -a'.
3) I plugged in the Plextor, manually loaded the device drivers:
$ modprobe snd_go7007 go7007 wis_sony_tuner wis_uda1342 wis_saa7115
Also, seems to need the ALSA OSS emulation stuff:
$ modprobe snd_pcm_oss
4) At this point, i can record using the gorecord app (I'm in the UK):
$ ./gorecord -input 2 -mode pal-i -tvchan europe:27 test.avi
5) For MythTV, I needed to run mythtv-setup and configure the Plextor,
used the tuner as input, added the xmltv channels. IMPORTANT: Didn't
see it mentioned anywhere, but I needed to add the frequencies for
each channel otherwise the Plextor would only tune to the first
channel. I did this after running mythfilldatabase and going back to
mythtv-setup.
For example, in the South West of the UK:
Name Channel Number Frequency
BBC1 21 471250
BBC2 27 519250
ITV 24 495250
Channel 4 31 551250
6) Ran the backend. Ran the frontend. This is where I was stuck. But
you need to setup the recording profiles in the frontent for the
Plextor before it will work. I also needed to mess around with the
sound for a while (digital output on Asus A78X), but I did get it to
work.
7) Watching and recording television works really well. Recorded a 2
hour movie, and playback worked. No problems after using it all
weekend. I have noticed the same ioctl errors in my syslog as you had,
but this doesn't seem to affect performance.
Hope this helps someone...
cheers,
graham
On 6/8/05, Stefan van der Eijk <stefan at eijk.nu> wrote:
> Graham,
>
> I managed to get mythtv working with the TV402U, but I stumbled into a
> few hurdles too. I used the kernel-multimedia-2.6.11-9.mm.2mdk, which
> includes the go7007 drivers. The next step was getting the firmware
> loaded. These were the steps I took:
>
> Copy the hotplug scripts:
>
> cp ~/wis-go7007-linux-0.9.4/hotplug/wis.usermap-ezusb
> /etc/hotplug/usb/wis-ezusb.usermap
> cp ~/wis-go7007-linux-0.9.4/hotplug/wis-ezusb.in
> /etc/hotplug/usb/wis-ezusb
>
>
> Copy the firmware:
>
> cp -R ~/wis-go7007-linux-0.9.4/firmware/* /lib/firmware/
>
>
> I needed to modify the wis-ezusb script a bit to get it to work:
>
> diff ~/wis-go7007-linux-0.9.4/hotplug/wis-ezusb.in
> /etc/hotplug/usb/wis-ezusb -ur
> --- /root/wis-go7007-linux-0.9.4/hotplug/wis-ezusb.in 2005-03-16
> 18:25:40.000000000 +0100
> +++ /etc/hotplug/usb/wis-ezusb 2005-06-08 13:38:47.000000000 +0200
> @@ -8,10 +8,10 @@
>
> # Assumes 2002_04_11 release of fxload (or later)
>
> -FIRMWARE_DIR=@FIRMWARE_DIR@/ezusb
> +FIRMWARE_DIR=/lib/hotplug/firmware/ezusb
> FIRMWARE=
> FLAGS=
> -LOADER=/sbin/fxload
> +LOADER=/usr/sbin/fxload
>
> # pre-renumeration device IDs
> case $PRODUCT in
>
>
> The fxload package needs to be installed, and the
> /etc/hotplug.d/default/20-hal.hotplug symlink removed, otherwise the
> firmware won't load. This may be a Mandriva issue. See:
>
> http://groups.google.nl/group/alt.os.linux.mandrake/browse_thread/thread/e5465be0c95b2231/f5aef2e102d7794f?q=go7007&rnum=2&hl=xx-elmer#f5aef2e102d7794f
>
> I then managed to capture a .avi file with the "gorecord" application.
> Then I went to mythtv, and when I pressed "c", the input would change,
> but what I saw on the screen didn't. I noticed the the following
> messages (unsupported ioctl) in syslog:
>
> Jun 8 20:18:46 localhost kernel: wis-sony-tuner: tuning to frequency
> 736.0000 (UHF)
> Jun 8 20:18:51 localhost kernel: go7007: unsupported ioctl -1070565886
> Jun 8 20:18:51 localhost kernel: go7007: unsupported ioctl 1076917763
> Jun 8 20:18:51 localhost kernel: go7007: unsupported ioctl -1070565886
> Jun 8 20:18:51 localhost kernel: go7007: unsupported ioctl 1076917763
> Jun 8 20:18:51 localhost kernel: wis-sony-tuner: tuning to frequency
> 192.0000 (VHF_H)
> Jun 8 20:19:00 localhost kernel: go7007: unsupported ioctl -1070565886
> Jun 8 20:19:00 localhost kernel: go7007: unsupported ioctl 1076917763
> Jun 8 20:19:00 localhost kernel: go7007: unsupported ioctl -1070565886
> Jun 8 20:19:00 localhost kernel: go7007: unsupported ioctl 1076917763
> Jun 8 20:19:00 localhost kernel: wis-sony-tuner: tuning to frequency
> 192.0000 (VHF_H)
> Jun 8 20:19:02 localhost kernel: go7007: unsupported ioctl -1070565886
> Jun 8 20:19:02 localhost kernel: go7007: unsupported ioctl 1076917763
> Jun 8 20:19:02 localhost kernel: go7007: unsupported ioctl -1070565886
> Jun 8 20:19:02 localhost kernel: go7007: unsupported ioctl 1076917763
> Jun 8 20:19:02 localhost kernel: wis-sony-tuner: tuning to frequency
> 192.0000 (VHF_H)
> Jun 8 20:19:04 localhost kernel: go7007: unsupported ioctl -1070565886
> Jun 8 20:19:04 localhost kernel: go7007: unsupported ioctl 1076917763
> Jun 8 20:19:04 localhost kernel: go7007: unsupported ioctl -1070565886
> Jun 8 20:19:04 localhost kernel: go7007: unsupported ioctl 1076917763
> Jun 8 20:19:04 localhost kernel: wis-sony-tuner: tuning to frequency
> 192.0000 (VHF_H)
> Jun 8 20:19:06 localhost kernel: go7007: unsupported ioctl -1070565886
> Jun 8 20:19:06 localhost kernel: go7007: unsupported ioctl 1076917763
> Jun 8 20:19:06 localhost kernel: go7007: unsupported ioctl -1070565886
> Jun 8 20:19:06 localhost kernel: go7007: unsupported ioctl 1076917763
> Jun 8 20:19:06 localhost kernel: wis-sony-tuner: tuning to frequency
> 192.0000 (VHF_H)
> Jun 8 20:19:07 localhost kernel: go7007: unsupported ioctl -1070565886
> Jun 8 20:19:07 localhost kernel: go7007: unsupported ioctl 1076917763
> Jun 8 20:19:07 localhost kernel: go7007: unsupported ioctl -1070565886
> Jun 8 20:19:07 localhost kernel: go7007: unsupported ioctl 1076917763
> Jun 8 20:19:07 localhost kernel: wis-sony-tuner: tuning to frequency
> 192.0000 (VHF_H)
>
> My hunch is that mythtv may be doing something wrong when trying to
> change the input connections. The trick I used was to record something
> with gorecord, on the input that you want to use in mythtv. Then, turn
> on mythtv and you'll be able to use it.
>
> regards,
>
> Stefan van der Eijk
>
> PS: CC-ing Mandriva's cooker list, perhaps we'll get this hardware
> supported out of the box one day...
>
> >I recently switched from a stock BT828 based MythTV setup to a Plextor
> >TV402U, but seem to be stumbling at the final hurdle. I've managed to
> >get the TV402U working with my Mandriva PC (gorecord works fine), but
> >I don't understand how to get the channel information for recording
> >off the tuner input on the device.
> >
> >I've used myth-setup and downloaded all the xmltv channel information
> >for my terrestrial signal here in the UK, but switching to Watch TV in
> >MythTV only produces the white-noise signal of an untuned channel. Is
> >it currently possible to use the tuner input on the TV402U? Or am I
> >missing something obvious?
> >
> >Many thanks for any help or advice!
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