[mythtv-users] PVR250 and Empty Mpeg files...

[Jelle Kalf]

you have to download the firmware from the hauppauge site and then run the ivtvfwextract.pl script. Which creates the decoder and encoder files and puts them both in /lib/modules/ . When you take a look in there there should be 2 .bin files. to be exact: ivtv-fw-dec.bin  ivtv-fw-enc.bin

If you don't have em, you won't see any tv at all, so I do believe you have done that part right when you say you've got live TV up and running until the problem starts.

Try recompiling mythtv perhaps ?

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echo 16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlb xq |dc

On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 12:38:49 +0000
Richie Jarvis <richie at helkit.com> wrote:

> Hi Jelle,
> 
> Thanks for writing back.  The permissions certainly could be an issue 
> (in the words of Homer Simpson - d'oh!) - the dir was (until about 3 
> seconds ago) owned by user mythtv - not user myth, which is the user 
> mythfrontend runs under.  Although, mythbackend is run by the root user, 
> and if memory serves, it is mythbackend that records the files.  What 
> confuses me more than anything else, is the way that things do record 
> fine, until something happens (don't know what, as the logs are not very 
> clear) - then I get zero length files, and the live TV won't work from 
> that point on.
> 
> Until the problem occurs, live TV does work fine.
> 
> Had a look at your webby - very nice - another Q just occured to me - 
> how is the firmware from the hauppage drivers loaded and where does it live?
> 
> I think I am gonna have to put the PVR250 back in again and try it all 
> again.... then post the ivtv logs if it doesn't play.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Richie