[mythtv] PVR 250 issues...

wwinright at attbi.com wwinright at attbi.com
Fri Apr 18 16:44:43 EDT 2003


Sorry, should have included the errors in the last message:

Apr 18 07:54:24 localhost kernel: saa7115[0]: decoder set size
Apr 18 07:54:24 localhost kernel: Hpsc: 0x00001, Hfsc: 0x00600
Apr 18 07:54:24 localhost kernel: Setting full NTSC height
Apr 18 07:54:24 localhost kernel: ivtv: hsize = 480
Apr 18 07:54:25 localhost kernel: ivtv: init error 20. Code -16
Apr 18 07:54:26 localhost kernel: ivtv: startcap error 2. Code -16
Apr 18 07:54:27 localhost kernel: ivtv: init error 19. Code -16
Apr 18 07:54:27 localhost kernel:
Apr 18 07:54:28 localhost kernel: ivtv: startcap error 1. Code -16
Apr 18 07:55:10 localhost kernel: ivtv: stopcap error 1. Code -16
Apr 18 07:55:11 localhost kernel: ivtv: stopcap error 2. Code -16

I'm leaning toward driver issues...

Thanks again,
Wade
> On Friday 18 April 2003 11:21 am, wwinright at attbi.com wrote:
> > The hack worked, and now I show a boatload of available inputs. I chose
> > Tuner, as usual, and went about starting up the backend, which seemed to
> > start fine, then the frontend. But when I get to the Codec chooser in
> > Setup>Recording, I'm not sure what to choose. I was under the impression
> > that the PVR 250 would enable MPEG2 to be used. When I attempt to use one
> > of the other codecs (RTJPEG, MPEG4, Hardware MJPEG) I get various errors,
> > all from ivtv. Is this a driver issue? Or should I be setting up recording
> > differently?
> 
> What errors?  As long as you have 'Hardware MPEG Encoder' selected as the 
> cardtype in the 2nd section of setup, it should just work.  Basically, it 
> ignores most of the recording profile stuff.  The only setting that's used is 
> width/height of the capture, as that's pretty much the only modifiable 
> setting of the ivtv driver as yet.  I'm eventually going to add codec setup 

> stuff for it in the setup->recording section, but there's little reason to 
> for now.
> 
> Isaac 
> 
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