[mythtv-users] testing the pinnacle 800i?
Gordon McLellan
gordonthree at gmail.com
Mon Jan 19 03:16:47 UTC 2009
I have followed the wiki instructions, and the card is detected and
firmware is loaded.
The card shows up as either an Analog V4L card, or a Samsung DVB
tuner. I would like to perform a test capture, to make sure the card
actually works, before I dive in to configuring it with myth. My PC
also has a pvr-500 in it, and both tuners are working as expected.
To test the pvr, it is really easy:
mplayer /dev/video1
this shows a video stream for channel 2
To test the analog portion of the 800i, I try:
mplayer /dev/video0
Mplayer complains about missing avisynth.dll (and the list just goes
on and on, I hunt down and feed it one library after another). I do
have win32codecs and all sorts of other non-free stuff installed from
the Mediabuntu repo. I don't think it is a missing codec problem.
I also tried scanning the dvb section of the card, both using the
"scan" command, and myth's scanner. Neither find any channels, even
though a tv with a digital tuner finds plenty of clear-qam channels on
the cable (Charter west-Michigan).
I tried capturing some video, and playing it back on windows, but
windows says the file is corrupt or not a video file (even tried VLC).
Any suggestions for testing this card, short of installing Windows?
Thanks a bunch!
Gordon
gmail: gordonthree
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