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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I am installing mythtv using the wilsonet.com documentation and
everything seemed to be going fine until I got to the point of testing the
video capture. </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Next I will show some of the configuration.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>When I enter /sbin/lspci –v I get the following for
the wintv PVR 250</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>02:0a.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression
Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> Subsystem:
Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV PVR 250</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> Flags: bus
master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> Memory at
f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> Capabilities:
[44] Power Management version 2</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>[mythtv@localhost ~]$ ll /dev/video?</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>crw------- 1 mythtv root 81, 0 Sep 5 20:11
/dev/video0</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>[root@localhost mythtv]# /bin/dmesg |grep Initialized</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>[drm] Initialized drm 1.0.0 20040925</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>[drm] Initialized radeon 1.16.0 20050311 on minor 0: </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>ivtv: Initialized WinTV PVR 250, card #0</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>When I try to capture video nothing happens so I enter the
following commands</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'># /usr/lib/ivtv/ptune-ui.pl &</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'># mplayer -vo xv /dev/video0</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I now see the tuner and the mplayer window but the only way
I can get a picture in mplayer is to use the yellow video in on place the tuner
on composite 4. Whenever I try to get any video from the coax input I get
nothing. I have tried changing channels and still nothing. I even
tried a VCR set for channel 3 or 4 and got nothing to display. Any ideas
would be greatly appreciated.</span></font></p>
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