[mythtv-users] PVR-150 users - how did you do it?

Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com
Mon May 23 03:58:27 UTC 2005


Thanks Matthew,
   I got it running earlier today. I also got mythfrontend running on
an XBox using Xebian today so my mom (who's fairly ill right now) will
be able to record and watch her soap operas without having to deal
with video tape anymore.

   Thanks for your help.

Cheers,
Mark

On 5/22/05, MB <matthew at imisssleep.com> wrote:
> I just got mine working yesterday. Works great so far using an antenna.
> 
> 1) Yes.
> 
> 2) I have Tuner1 as an option as well. But use Tuner0 per Jarod's guide.
> 
> 3) This is some issue with the way setup/mythbackend are running. Try this:
> -Stop mythbacked (/etc/init.d/mythbackend stop)
> -run mythtvsetup deleting all card info and channel/provider info
> -setup everything again... make sure you choose tuner0
> -start mythbackend (/etc/init.d/mythbackend start)
> -also, make sure 720x480 is set as the resolution under your recording
> profiles in mythfrontend
> -check dmesg for any info if this doesn't work
> 
> Hope this helps. My card seems to be running pretty stable. I love that
> no matter how bad the signal gets it still spits out 2.2 GB per hour.
> 
> 
> Mark Knecht wrote:
> 
> >Childe,
> >   Thanks very much. I think this is helping. After many problems
> >today I'm back to having at least the test method for the PVR-150
> >correctly storing files using cat and then playing them back using
> >mplayer.
> >
> >   Now I'm trying to get mythsetup done correctly. I'm guessing a bit
> >here. Can you tell me how you set yours up in the backend?
> >
> >1) Since the PVR-150 is supposed to be a cost reduced version of the
> >250 I've chosen my capture card type to be a PVR-250/350. Is this what
> >you did?
> >
> >2) I've set the video device as /dev/v4l/video0 and the tuner as
> >Tuner0. (Do you also have 'Tuner1' as an option?)
> >
> >3) Under input connections I've set Tuner0->Adelphia (The name of my
> >cable TV service at this location.
> >
> >   This all makes basic sense, but when I try to watch TV I only get a
> >black screen, no audio, and I have to Ctrl-C out of the terminal to
> >get back. I cannot hit escape to exit the watch TV screen.
> >
> >   Help! I think I'm pretty close!
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Mark
> >
> >On 5/22/05, <SB> Childe Roland <rolandchilde at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Here's what I used for mine (can't think of the ivtv version right now):
> >>-------------------------------------------------------------
> >>alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c
> >>alias char-major-81 videodev
> >>alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
> >>options cx25840 no_black_magic=1
> >>options ivtv ivtv_std=0 tuner=50 tda9887=0 ivtv_debug=1
> >>
> >>options cx25840 i2c_enable=1
> >>options saa7127 i2c_enable=-1
> >>install ivtv /sbin/modprobe tuner; /sbin/modprobe msp3400;
> >>/sbin/modprobe saa7115; /sbin/modprobe –ignore-install ivtv
> >>remove ivtv /sbin/modprobe -r –ignore-remove ivtv && /sbin/modprobe -r
> >>saa7115 && /sbin/modprobe -r msp3400 && /sbin/modprobe -r tuner
> >>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >>On 5/22/05, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Hi,
> >>>   I'm trying to set up a PVR-150 in a new backend machine. I use a
> >>>PVR-250 in another machine already so I have some experience in doing
> >>>this, although not a lot. How did you ge your PVR-150 to work?
> >>>
> >>>1) I'm using a CVS tarbal of ivtv-0.3.3k
> >>>
> >>>2) I'm running an Athlon XP machine on an NForce-2 MB using Gentoo and
> >>>trying to use udev but so far I'm not getting any /dev/v4l devices. I
> >>>didnt have to do anything to get /dev/v4l devices on our P4 backend
> >>>machine that uses the PVR-250.
> >>>
> >>>3) When I first set this up yesterday I didn't get any video when
> >>>doing the simple command line test of the hardware. (cat /dev/video0 >
> >>>test.mpg and then mplayer test.mpg) However I added an option for mpeg
> >>>buffer and it started working:
> >>>
> >>>alias char-major-81 videodev
> >>>alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
> >>>#alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c
> >>>options ivtv ivtv-debug=0 mpg_buffers=90
> >>>#options tuner type=2
> >>>#options msp3400 once=1 simple=1 debug=0
> >>>#add below ivtv msp3400 saa7115 tuner
> >>>#add above ivtv lirc_dev lirc_i2c
> >>>
> >>>Without the options line I got no video.
> >>>
> >>>   Any ideas how I can get this going?
> >>>
> >>>Thanks,
> >>>Mark
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> >>>
> >>--
> >>=============================
> >><SB> Childe Roland
> >>"I will show you fear in a handful of jellybeans."
> >>
> >>
> >>
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