[mythtv-users] v4l - one last try....

[Yan Seiner]

Jay R. Ashworth wrote:

>On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 10:32:24AM -0800, Yan Seiner wrote:
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>>At this point this is somewhat a matter of pride; I am so close to 
>>getting this to work, but I just can't get the two parties to talk....
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>Replace it with a Dialogic DID-120?  :-)
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I had about as much trouble with that particular monster; I've now sold 
that business but as far I know that old setup is still going 
strong....  That's my goal for mythtv.  Setup and forget it...  :-)

>I'm amazed you're having this caliber of trouble.  I came in late: are
>you using a standalone IVTV driver, or one of the BTTV-merge ones?  And
>have you asked on the iVTV list?
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Thanks Jay & Chad...

The board in question is a bttv board - bt878 based.  It's not one of 
the PVR-xx0 boards, so it uses the bttv driver.

OK, I've been though the docs, I've tried both card=n for haupagge 
cards, both exhibit the same behavior.  I've tried various tuners; no joy.

I just got my pcHDTV card; just for kicks, I put it in and set it up as 
a v4l2 card using the cx8800 driver.

I got the *exact same* behavior from mythtv.  I can start the TV, but as 
soon as I try to change the channel, the mythtv backend becomes 
non-responsive, and I have to restart the backend...

I am beginning to suspect something is badly broken in the FC2 mythtv 
RPMs and/or in my system...  Or maybe the RPM build doesn't like the 
latest 2.6.15 kernel....  I can try to downgrade the kernel, although I 
would rather not...  Or maybe mythtv / v4l is unstable on an SMP box...

Unless someone has some more insight to offer on this, I am going try 
and set up the pcHDTV as a digital card and see if that makes any 
difference, and also plan on building mythtv from source...  After than 
I am going to toss FC2 and replace it with debian...

--Yan