[mythtv-users] Can't get pvr250 working.

[Mike Diehl (Encrypted email preferred)]

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On Friday 25 June 2004 09:56 am, Jason Elwell wrote:
> If you get static, that is actually a good sign.  Either you have
> selected the wrong input or have the card tuned to a frequency that
> doesn't have content.

This is what I though.  But, if I use mplayer tv://2, it should tune to 
channel 2, which I should be able to receive.  But when I do this, I get a 
green screen, not even static.

In fact, I just noticed that it complains that I don't have a tuner?!
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Playing tv://2.
Cache fill:  0.00% (0 bytes)    TV detected! ;-)
Selected driver: dummy
 name: NULL-TV
 author: alex
Selected input hasn't got a tuner!
vo: couldn't open the X11 display ()!
Error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo) device.
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Here is the output of lsmod:
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saa7127                 3404   0  (unused)
ivtv                   79488   3
tveeprom                5600   0  (unused)
saa7115                 5632   0  (unused)
tvmixer                 3312   0
nvidia               1966464   6
svgalib_helper          7696   0  (autoclean)
lirc_i2c                4356   1  (autoclean)
lirc_dev                9360   1  (autoclean) [lirc_i2c]
rtc                     8488   1  (autoclean)
ac97                    3296   0  (unused)
ac97_plugin_ad1980       524   0  (unused)
ac97_plugin_wm97xx     14184   0  (unused)
i810_audio             26524   1
ac97_codec             13560   0  [ac97_plugin_ad1980 ac97_plugin_wm97xx 
i810_audio]
uart401                 6852   0  (unused)
v_midi                  5476   0  (unused)
sound                  61728   0  [uart401 v_midi]
msp3400                16096   0  (unused)
sk98lin               157992   1

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Man, the WAF factor is starting to get pretty low here so any help would be 
appreciated.

Thanx.


> Mike Diehl (Encrypted email preferred) wrote:
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> >Hi all.
> >
> >I'm down to the last task.  Getting the video capture / tuner card
> > (pvr250) to work.
> >
> >I've got the ivtv module installed.  I did a test_ioctl -p 4 to set the
> > input. I've got an antenae plugged into the back of the card.
> >
> >But if I do:
> >mplayer tv://2 -vo svga
> >I get a green screen.
> >
> >If I do:
> >mplayer /dev/video -vo svga
> >I get static.
> >
> >If I try to use mythfronend to watch live tv, I get a black screen for a
> > few seconds and then I'm back to the UI.
> >
> >I'm obviously missing something.  Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> >Thanx,
> >- --
> >Mike


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Mike
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