[mythtv-users] WinTv HVR-1800 issues

Barry Fawthrop barry at isscp.com
Sat Apr 3 14:18:24 UTC 2010


Hi All

I'm new to MythTV and have been battling with some setup/config issues
I have looked through the archives some helped some did not.

I have the Hauppauge WinTV-HVR1800 from an HP m9040n        
I downloaded the latest nVidia drivers 195.36.15
Ubuntu  9.10 karmic
kernel  2.6.31-20-generic   

dmesg shows the following

[    8.877724] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[    8.913123] cx23885 driver version 0.0.2 loaded
[    8.913161] cx23885 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) ->
IRQ 17
[    8.913206] CORE cx23885[0]: subsystem: 0070:7801, board: Hauppauge
WinTV-HVR1800 [card=2,autodetected]
[    9.099842] tveeprom 0-0050: Hauppauge model 78521, rev C1E9, serial#
2786312
[    9.099845] tveeprom 0-0050: MAC address is 00-0D-FE-2A-84-08
[    9.099847] tveeprom 0-0050: tuner model is Philips 18271_8295 (idx
149, type 54)
[    9.099850] tveeprom 0-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) ATSC/DVB Digital
(eeprom 0x88)
[    9.099852] tveeprom 0-0050: audio processor is CX23887 (idx 42)
[    9.099854] tveeprom 0-0050: decoder processor is CX23887 (idx 37)
[    9.099856] tveeprom 0-0050: has radio
[    9.099857] cx23885[0]: hauppauge eeprom: model=78521
[    9.142564] cx25840 2-0044: cx25  0-21 found @ 0x88 (cx23885[0])
[    9.146865] cx25840 2-0044: firmware: requesting
v4l-cx23885-avcore-01.fw
[    9.756179] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
[    9.756183] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
[   10.009236] nvidia 0000:04:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) ->
IRQ 16
[   10.009244] nvidia 0000:04:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[   10.009352] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module  195.36.15
Thu Mar 11 21:41:46 PST 2010
[   11.463166] tuner 1-0042: chip found @ 0x84 (cx23885[0])
[   11.510454] tda829x 1-0042: could not clearly identify tuner address,
defaulting to 60
[   11.575875] phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel'
[   11.576509] Registered led device: rt73usb-phy0::radio
[   11.576533] Registered led device: rt73usb-phy0::assoc
[   11.576549] Registered led device: rt73usb-phy0::quality
[   11.577075] usbcore: registered new interface driver rt73usb
[   11.677117] tda18271 1-0060: creating new instance
[   11.713373] TDA18271HD/C1 detected @ 1-0060
[   12.884395] tda829x 1-0042: type set to tda8295+18271
[   13.997429] cx23885[0]/0: registered device video0 [v4l2]
[   15.081266] cx23885[0]: registered device video1 [mpeg]
[   15.081270] cx23885_dvb_register() allocating 1 frontend(s)
[   15.081272] cx23885[0]: cx23885 based dvb card
[   15.485997] DVB: registering new adapter (cx23885[0])
[   15.486000] DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (Samsung S5H1409
QAM/8VSB Frontend)...
[   15.486284] cx23885_dev_checkrevision() Hardware revision = 0xb1
[   15.486293] cx23885[0]/0: found at 0000:02:00.0, rev: 15, irq: 17,
latency: 0, mmio: 0xf9e00000
[   15.486300] cx23885 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64



In MythTV backend Setup
General -> Locale settings -> channel frequency table  = us-cable-irc

Capture Card  Analog V4L capture card
    video device      /dev/video0
    probed info       Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1800 [cx23885]
    VBI device
    audio device      /dev/dsp
    audio sampling rate limit     (None)
    Default Input     Television

Video Source
    video source name          TV
    listings grabber           North America(SchedulesDirect.org)
    channel frequency table    us-cable-irc

Input connections
    [V4L :/dev/video0 ] (Television) -> TV
    [V4L :/dev/video0 ] (Composite1) -> (None)
    [V4L :/dev/video0 ] (S-Video) -> (None)




1) My First issue My card has  three antenna srew on barrel connections
(sorry don't know the real name) they are marked
Am/FM  ;  TV/Cable Ant ;  DTV Ant  ; S-Video  and  RCA Audio L R input

My Cable is connected into TV/Cable Ant  (My cable package is the HD
package). 

I don't see an Composite1??  How does the MythTV
Television,Composite1,S-Video correlate to the Cards actual connections?

2) I still have my old Dish network satellite dishes on the roof
   Can I connect them into the card (perhaps DTV Ant)?
   If so will I have to go through the Dish receiver or just direct
   from dish to card?

3) My picture right now is black and white ISH with lots of purple and
green. With vertical lines alternating purple and green.

NO true color, my screen resolution is 1280x1024. But I set my
viewing screen to 800x600 that works. but even when it was full screen
The picture seems to be cut off to the right. If I watch a show on TV
and my monitor there is more to be seen on the right than what is
showing on MythTV?

4) There is NO Audio?

Sorry for the list  any help will be greatly appreciated

Thanks in advance

Barry







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