[mythtv-users] Problems with new connections for PVR-150/250

[Mark Knecht]

Hi,
   I'm in the process of bring up MythTV after a hardware failure.
Since I was previously using mysql-4 I'm also updating to mysql-5 and
most everything else in the system which is of course going to lead to
a few problems. Hopefully someone will understand the errors I've
created and point me in the right direction. Thanks in advance.

   The first problem I'm having is that I don't think I've made the
logical connections correctly in mythtv-setup. I have not changed my
kernel or the ivtv driver and those were working fine yesterday with
the old setup so I presume they will work fine today with the new
setup if I can figure out the correct video devices to use.

   The distro is Gentoo. Here's what I see in the /dev/v4l directory:

mark at dragonfly ~ $ ls -al /dev/v4l/*
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 224 May 14 09:49 /dev/v4l/vbi0
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81, 225 May 14 09:49 /dev/v4l/vbi1
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81,   0 May 14 09:49 /dev/v4l/video0
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81,   1 May 14 09:49 /dev/v4l/video1
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81,  24 May 14 09:49 /dev/v4l/video24
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81,  25 May 14 09:49 /dev/v4l/video25
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81,  32 May 14 09:49 /dev/v4l/video32
crw-rw---- 1 root video 81,  33 May 14 09:49 /dev/v4l/video33
mark at dragonfly ~ $

   When I attempted to make the connections in mythtv-setup it
defaulted to /dev/v4l/video0 so I chose that for the PRV-150 and chose
video1 for the PVR-250. When I attempted to save it it told me the
default channel was channel 3 but channel 3 didn't exit. I have never
seen that problem before.

   When I run the frontend I seem to be getting a bunch of the lower
over-the-air channels. (2-13) However I am not receiving video
anything above 13. I am seeing the program guide.

   I checked on my TV and cable is working correctly so there should
be video I think.

   I has been a long, long time since I've messed at this depth with
myth.I do remember that there was a way to cat video at the command
line to a file. I tried that for /dev/v4l/video0 and got static so I
presume those are the wrong devices but I'm not sure what to use
instead.

   For kicks I also tried cat /dev/video1 >test0.mpg but got similar static.

   I've attached the dmesg output for IVTV at the end of this message.
It doesn't say what /dev device things are hooked to.

   Does any of this strike someone as familiar? I hope so.

   Thanks again, in advance, for any help you can lend.

Cheers,
Mark


Linux video capture interface: v1.00
ivtv:  ==================== START INIT IVTV ====================
ivtv:  version 0.7.3 (tagged release) loading
ivtv:  Linux version: 2.6.17-gentoo-r2 preempt mod_unload PENTIUM4 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-150 card (cx23416 based)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK0] enabled at IRQ 5
PCI: setting IRQ 5 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:01.0[A] -> Link [LNK0] -> GSI 5 (level,
low) -> IRQ 5
ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)
tveeprom 0-0050: Hauppauge model 26032, rev C199, serial# 8095579
tveeprom 0-0050: tuner model is TCL 2002N 5H (idx 99, type 50)
tveeprom 0-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) (eeprom 0x08)
tveeprom 0-0050: audio processor is CX25841 (idx 35)
tveeprom 0-0050: decoder processor is CX25841 (idx 28)
tveeprom 0-0050: has no radio, has IR remote
tuner 0-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
cx25840 0-0044: cx25841-23 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
cx25840 0-0044: loaded v4l-cx25840.fw firmware (16382 bytes)
wm8775 0-001b: chip found @ 0x36 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (262144 bytes)
ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02060039
ivtv0 warning: Encoder Firmware can be buggy, use version 0x02040011,
0x02040024 or 0x02050032.
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)
tuner 0-0061: type set to 50 (TCL 2002N)
ivtv0: Initialized Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150, card #0
ivtv:  ======================  NEXT CARD  ======================
ivtv1: Autodetected Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250 card (cx23416 based)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:02.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 3 (level,
low) -> IRQ 3
ivtv1: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)
tuner 1-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #1)
tveeprom 1-0050: Hauppauge model 32062, rev C182, serial# 7913638
tveeprom 1-0050: tuner model is LG TAPC H791F (idx 82, type 39)
tveeprom 1-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) (eeprom 0x08)
tveeprom 1-0050: audio processor is MSP3445 (idx 12)
tveeprom 1-0050: decoder processor is SAA7115 (idx 19)
tveeprom 1-0050: has no radio, has IR remote
saa7115 1-0021: saa7115 found @ 0x42 (ivtv i2c driver #1)
msp3400 1-0040: MSP3445G-B8 found @ 0x80 (ivtv i2c driver #1)
msp3400 1-0040: MSP3445G-B8 supports radio, mode is autodetect and autoselect
ivtv1: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (262144 bytes)
ivtv1: Encoder revision: 0x02060039
ivtv1 warning: Encoder Firmware can be buggy, use version 0x02040011,
0x02040024 or 0x02050032.
ivtv1: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG stream: 128 x 32768 buffers (4096KB total)
ivtv1: Allocate DMA encoder YUV stream: 194 x 10800 buffers (2048KB total)
ivtv1: Allocate DMA encoder VBI stream: 120 x 17472 buffers (2048KB total)
ivtv1: Allocate DMA encoder PCM audio stream: 455 x 4608 buffers (2048KB total)
tuner 1-0061: type set to 39 (LG NTSC (newer TAPC series))
ivtv1: Initialized Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250, card #1
ivtv:  ====================  END INIT IVTV  ====================