[mythtv-users] Problems with ivtvdev_drv

[Eggert Thorlacius]

Hi all

I am sorry that I have to keep posting to the list, but I have 
completely lost sight of what I am doing and I'm just running around in 
the dark by now.

I tried downloading the source of IVTV to get a new ivtvdev_drv.o file, 
as Prash recommended, but I can't get the source to compile (neither 
from ivtv-0.1.9a.tar.gz nor CVS-LATEST.tar.gz).  I went to the 
http://membres.lycos.fr/badzzzz/ and downloaded the source of the 
driver from there, but when I built it, I did not get a ivtvdev_drv.o 
file, but a bunch of .ko files.  Installing them had no apparent 
effect.

Running mplayer without the "-vo xv" apparently decodes the mpgs in 
software and my machine can't handle that, so in order to enable the 
hardware decoding, I need ivtvdev_drv.o.

Jarod's Guide says: "Note that the ivtvdev X driver is included with 
the ck-series ivtv drivers, so no need to fetch it, just use it. Or so 
I believe. Gotta get my EPIA back up and running..."  What does this 
mean?  Does the driver from atrpms work (for everyone except me, that 
is)?  If not, where can I fetch it?  Can someone who has gotten the 
source to compile send me a copy of the driver?  Do I need a different 
version of the driver because I'm using PAL?  And once I get the 
driver, where do I install it?  Why does apt-get install the driver in 
/usr/X11R6/lib/Server/modules/drivers, where X (apparently) can't find 
it?

There is GeForce2 MX/MX 400 video card with TV-Out in my machine as 
well.  Do you think that I will have more success if I tried to connect 
the TV to that card?  I'd still need to make the PVR-350 handle the 
decoding, so I'd still need the driver, right?

Thanks in advance for any pointers,
Eggert

On 9.11.2004, at 12:54, Eggert Thorlacius wrote:

>
> On 9.11.2004, at 10:59, Prash wrote:
>
>> As it says you don't have a X driver with Xv support. Remove the -vo
>> xv from the command . Are you using the patched mplayer from atrpms?
>
> Yes, I'm using the mplayer that I got from "apt-get install 
> mythtv-suite".  If I remove the -vo xv from the command, mplayer plays 
> really jerkily and says that my computer is too slow to play video.  
> Anyway, MythTV uses "mplayer -vo xv" when playing movies from my movie 
> library, so I need to fix this in order to get MythTV to work, right?
>
>> Try using the ivtvdev driver that came with the source.
>
> OK, I'll try that when I get home.  But if I get the latest version of 
> the driver from CVS, will it work with the rest of the components 
> which I downloaded from atrpms?  Also, is this a known problem with 
> the driver?  From what I see on this list, most people can just follow 
> Jarods guide and the driver works.  There must be something wrong with 
> my setup, but I can't imagine what.
>
>> What is your videocard make?
>
> It is a Hauppauge PVR 350 (PAL version)
>
> Thanks for the advice
> Eggert
>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 10:12:10 +0000, Eggert Thorlacius
>> <eggi at menandmice.com> wrote:
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> I have been trying to install MythTV on a FC2 box with a Hauppauge 
>>> PVR
>>> 350 card (PAL version) with no success for the last few weeks.  I
>>> followed Jarod's guide and got to the point where I could see X on my
>>> TV and play TV by catting /dev/video0 to /dev/video16, but when I 
>>> tried
>>> using mplayer to play fullsceen, it quit with the error message 
>>> "there
>>> is no Xvideo support for your video card available"
>>> I posted to this list and got no reply, so I decided to swap hard 
>>> disks
>>> and start over.
>>>
>>> Now I have three different scenarios:
>>> * If I try starting X after following sections 1 to 10 of Jarods 
>>> guide,
>>> I get "Failed to load module "ivtvdev" (module does not exist, 0)"
>>> * If I move ivtvdev_drv.o from /usr/X11R6/lib/Server/modules/drivers 
>>> to
>>> /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers, I get "LoadModule: Module ivtvdev 
>>> does
>>> not have a ivtvdevModuleData data object"
>>> * And if I install the 
>>> http://membres.lycos.fr/badzzzz/ivtvdev_drv.o.gz
>>> module in /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers, I can start X but mplayer
>>> refuses to work ( I do get the error "IVTVDEV(0): FBIOPAN_DISPLAY:
>>> Invalid argument" in my Xorg.0.log, but it doesn't stop X from
>>> starting)
>>>
>>> So what am I doing wrong?  What version of ivtvdev_drv am I supposed 
>>> to
>>> use and where am I supposed to put it?
>>> Regards,
>>> Eggert Thorlacius
>>>
>>>
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