[mythtv-users] LiveTV and a pvr350

Wed Nov 17 04:46:05 UTC 2004

I have been building this mythbox for 2 weeks and have most everything
working except the LiveTV.  Not sure what I am doing wrong, but I get
snow/static when I try and watch live tv for everything I try.  I am
only trying to get antenna broacast tv and even have a fancy rabbit
ear antenna hooked up to the pvr350's TV input

Any help would be appreciated

dmesg:

ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV ====================
ivtv: version 0.2.0 (0.2.0-rc2q) loading
ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.9-rc2-love4 SMP preempt K7 4KSTACKS gcc-3.3
ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info
ivtv: between the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines when
ivtv: mailing the ivtv-devel mailinglist.
ivtv: Autodetected WinTV PVR 350 card
ivtv: Found an iTVC15 based chip
ivtv: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)
ivtv: XXX PCI device: 0x01e0 vendor: 0x10de
tveeprom: Ignoring new-style parameters in presence of obsolete ones
tveeprom: Hauppauge: model = 48132, rev = K168, serial# = 2836779
tveeprom: tuner = LG TAPE H001F MK3 (idx = 68, type = 47)
tveeprom: tuner fmt = NTSC(M) (eeprom = 0x08, v4l2 = 0x00001000)
tveeprom: audio_processor = MSP3440 (type = 11)
ivtv: i2c attach [client=tveeprom[0],ok]
ivtv: Tuner Type 47, Tuner formats 0x00001000, Radio: yes, Model 0x00ad1598, Rev
ision 0x00000001
ivtv: NTSC tuner detected
ivtv: Radio detected
tuner: Ignoring new-style parameters in presence of obsolete ones
tuner: chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus ivtv i2c driver #0
ivtv: i2c attach [client=(tuner unset),ok]
saa7115: Ignoring new-style parameters in presence of obsolete ones
saa7115: starting probe for adapter ivtv i2c driver #0 (0x10005)
saa7115: detecting saa7115 client on address 0x42
saa7115: writing init values
ivtv: i2c attach [client=saa7115[0],ok]
saa7115: status: (1E) 0x48, (1F) 0xc0
saa7127: Ignoring new-style parameters in presence of obsolete ones
saa7127: video encoder driver version V 0.3 loaded
saa7127: Selecting NTSC video Standard
saa7127: Selecting S-Video+Composite
saa7127: Turn WSS off
saa7127: Widescreen Mode 4:3 Full Format
saa7127: Selecting Normal Encoder Input
saa7127: Enable Video Output
ivtv: i2c attach [client=saa7127[0],ok]
msp3400: Ignoring new-style parameters in presence of obsolete ones
msp34xx: ivtv version
msp34xx: init: chip=MSP3448W-A2, has NICAM support, simple (D) mode, simpler (G)
 no-thread mode
msp34xx: $Id$ compiled on: Nov 16 2004 18:44:25
ivtv: i2c attach [client=MSP3448W-A2,ok]
ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02040011
ivtv: Decoder revision: 0x02020023
ivtv: Configuring WinTV PVR 350 card with 9 streams
ivtv: Create DMA stream 0 using 256 16384 byte buffers  4194304 kbytes total
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 0 minor 0
ivtv: Create DMA stream 1 using 64 16384 byte buffers  1048576 kbytes total
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 1 minor 32
ivtv: Create stream 2 using 40 52224 byte buffers  2097152 kbytes total
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 2 minor 224
ivtv: Create DMA stream 3 using 128 16384 byte buffers  2097152 kbytes total
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 3 minor 24
ivtv: Create stream 4 
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 4 minor 64
ivtv: Create DMA stream 5 using 16 65536 byte buffers  1048576 kbytes total
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 5 minor 16
ivtv: Create stream 6 using 1024 2048 byte buffers  262144 kbytes total
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 6 minor 228
ivtv: Create stream 7 
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 7 minor 232
ivtv: Create DMA stream 8 using 16 65536 byte buffers  1048576 kbytes total
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 8 minor 48
ivtv: Setting Tuner 47
tuner: type set to 47 (LG NTSC (TAPE series)) by ivtv i2c driver #0
ivtv: Setting audio matrix to input 3, output 1
ivtv: Switching standard to NTSC.
ivtv: ivtv_enc_thread: pid = 5278, itv = 0xf990cce0
ivtv: ivtv_dec_thread: pid = 5279, itv = 0xf990cce0
saa7115: decoder set norm NTSC
saa7115: set audio: 0x01
saa7127: Setting Encoder Video Standard
saa7127: Set NTSC Video Mode
saa7127: Selecting NTSC video Standard
ivtv: Initialized WinTV PVR 350, card #0
ivtv: ====================  END INIT IVTV  ====================
ivtv-osd: Framebuffer module loaded (attached to ivtv card id 0)
ivtv-osd: Framebuffer is at decoder-relative address 0x00510000 and has 1704960 
bytes.
ivtv-osd: screen coords: [0 0] -> [720 480]
ivtv-osd: original global alpha = 208
ivtv-osd: current OSD state = 39
ivtv-osd: new global alpha = 208 (1 255 0)
ivtv-osd: framebuffer at 0xd9510000, mapped to 0xfa790000, size 1350k
ivtv-osd: mode is 720x480x32, linelength=2880
ivtv-osd: fb2: iTVC15 TV out frame buffer device
lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61 
bttv: driver version 0.9.15 loaded
bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
lirc_i2c: chip found @ 0x18 (Hauppauge IR)
ivtv: i2c attach [client=Hauppauge IR,ok]
lirc_dev: lirc_register_plugin:samplealias 

modules.conf:

snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
install snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-intel8x0 &&
/usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ;
}; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0

# OSS/Free portion - card #1
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
##  OSS/Free portion - card #2
## alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss
## alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss
## alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss

alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss
alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss

# Set this to the correct number of cards.
options snd cards_limit=1

### modules-update: end processing /etc/modules.d/alsa

### modules-update: start processing /etc/modules.d/i386
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias char-major-10-144 nvram
alias binfmt-0064 binfmt_aout
alias char-major-10-135 rtc

### modules-update: end processing /etc/modules.d/i386

### modules-update: start processing /etc/modules.d/ivtv
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c
install ivtv /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ivtv; /sbin/modprobe ivtv-fb
add above ivtv lirc_dev lirc_i2c_rate: 10

mythsetup
2. added the pvr350 capture card
3. made a video source with North American channels and the frequency
table set to bcast
4. have the input connections tuner0 ->broadcast_tv

Thanks;
Dan Littlejohn