[mythtv-users] PVR-350 Almost Working?

Mike Perkins mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk
Fri Aug 24 16:18:50 UTC 2007


scott at tbwifi.ca wrote:
> Trying the compile approach using the recommended tarball yielded the
> following dmesg output, but seemed to provide the worst results with no
> capture possible.
> 
> ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV ============
> ivtv: version 0.7.4 (tagged release) loading
> ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.17-5mdv SMP mod_unload gcc-4.1
> ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info between
> ivtv: the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines, along with
> ivtv: any module options, when mailing the ivtv-users mailinglist.
> ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350 card (cx23415 based)
> ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)
> tveeprom 0-0050: Hauppauge model 48132, rev K268, serial# 9921474
> tveeprom 0-0050: tuner model is LG TAPE H001F MK3 (idx 68, type 47)
> tveeprom 0-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) (eeprom 0x08)
> tveeprom 0-0050: audio processor is MSP4448 (idx 27)
> tveeprom 0-0050: decoder processor is SAA7115 (idx 19)
> tveeprom 0-0050: has radio, has IR remote
> tuner 0-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
> tda9887 0-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
> saa7115 0-0021: saa7115 found @ 0x42 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
> saa7127 0-0044: saa7129 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
> msp3400 0-0040: MSP4448G-A2 found @ 0x80 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
> msp3400 0-0040: MSP4448G-A2 supports radio, mode is autodetect and autoselect
> ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (376836 bytes)
> ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw firmware (262144 bytes)
> ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02060039
> ivtv0: Decoder revision: 0x02020023
> ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG stream: 128 x 32768 buffers (4096KB total)
> ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder YUV stream: 194 x 10800 buffers (2048KB total)
> ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder VBI stream: 120 x 17472 buffers (2048KB total)
> ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder PCM audio stream: 455 x 4608 buffers (2048KB
> total)
> ivtv0: Create encoder radio stream
> ivtv0: Allocate DMA decoder MPEG stream: 16 x 65536 buffers (1024KB total)
> ivtv0: Allocate DMA decoder VBI stream: 512 x 2048 buffers (1024KB total)
> ivtv0: Create decoder VOUT stream
> ivtv0: Allocate DMA decoder YUV stream: 24 x 43200 buffers (1024KB total)
> ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-init.mpg firmware (155648 bytes)
> tuner 0-0061: type set to 47 (LG NTSC (TAPE series))
> ivtv0: Initialized Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350, card #0
> ivtv: ==================== END INIT IVTV =============
> 
> This is driving me crazy!!  I would love to upgrade to a newer kernel, but
> I can't make that work either.  Ahhh!
> 
The above looks perfect! What exactly seems to be the problem? Have you tried 
doing a capture outside of myth? Are you connecting to the correct capture 
device in mythtv-setup? Are you linking the correct capture device to the 
properly defined source?

Mike Perkins



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