[mythtv-users] Several Problems with my WinTV PVR 250 MythTV Box

[Robert Schultz]

Isaac Richards wrote:

>On Saturday 31 May 2003 06:01 pm, Robert Schultz wrote:
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>>MythTV is up and running but several things are not working.
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>>First and mainly is sound. I have no sound output all using MythTV.
>>If I use mplayer to play a static MPEG file, I hear sound out of my
>>television.
>>Same with XFree sounds. They play okay. But MythTV doesn't.
>>I tried doing a modprobe btaudio, but no such luck. It loads but then
>>spits out 'No such device' errors.
>>How can I further troubleshoot this? And hopefully fix it?
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>btaudio is for analog tuner cards.  Pretty much the only thing it can be with 
>a pvr-250 is that you've not setup the output sound device in mythtv's 
>settings section or something else is using the dsp device and preventing 
>mythtv from opening it.
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Hrm... okay, I'm GLAD to know that it's not btaudio.
I have three sound devices in /dev:
/dev/dsp  /dev/dsp1 and /dev/dsp56k

In mythtv's setup for my 'Capture Card' settings, I have:
Audio Device: /dev/dsp

I just changed it to /dev/dsp1 and it works now!
I have sound. It's very quiet, but I can just adjust my volume.

Quality of picture is pretty bad though (It's at 480x480)
I'll have to look at improving that...
So the sound problem is fixed.

>>Secondly, if I go into MythTV and choose to 'Watch TV' it comes up just
>>fine and I'm now watching TV.
>>However, if I hit 'ESCAPE' to go back to the TV menu scren, once it
>>makes it to the screen Myth totally stops responding.
>>Arrow keys don't do anything, and neither does escape.
>>It's as if it just decided to stop listening for input.
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>Sounds like you're not running a window manager on there, or are running one 
>that doesn't work properly wrt keyboard focus.
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I'm running fluxbox. I believe the same thing happened though with stock 
KDE.
I'm running the programs/script using Eterm.
Is there some way I can 'turn off' the keyboard for screen 2?
That way only the remote control will be sending keys to that scree
I just tried running mythforeground and irxevent in the forground 
instead of as background processes, same thing happens.
I also tried not running irxevent at all, and just using keyboard. Same 
thing.

So I tried running it on the same display, without doing the export 
DISPLAY to the TV.
It worked!

Right now I'm working on finding out if there is a way I can better 
'direct' things to the second screen, including keyboard input.

If anyone has any ideas on how to direct certain input only to a single 
screen, or run things only on a single screen.. :)

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