[mythtv-users] Video Hardware issues

[Nick]

On 20/11/05, Jdogzilla <jdogzilla at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Hello, I have FC4 2.6.14, Nvidia GEForce GTS2 AGP card (using nv driver in
> xorg.conf) and Hauppauge PVR-500 card.
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> My computer seems to detect the Hauppauge card correctly, as I see the ivtv
> lines in dmesg.  However, my basic video test fails and crashes the machine.
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> When I do the following: "/bin/cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg", the machine
> hangs and I have to reboot.
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> When I type the following command
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> "Ivtvctl –input-detect –dev=/dev/video0" or with /dev/video1
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> The output I get for both the tuners on the card reads
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> "ioctl: VIDEO_STATUS = Bad"
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> This looks wrong to me to start with too.
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> Any suggestions on debugging this and getting this test to pass will be
> helpful.

You'll likely need to correctly set the input for the card i.e. tuner,
composite video or S-Video before trying to cat /dev/video[01]. You
can use ivtvctl to do this. Also check the ivtv output in your log to
make sure the tuner has been correctly identified.

Nick