[mythtv-users] pvr 350 not able to record TV

sarvinc at fastmail.fm sarvinc at fastmail.fm
Sun Nov 27 14:34:29 EST 2005


On Monday 28 November 2005 03:03 am, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> sarvinc at fastmail.fm wrote:
> >I'm on a Athlon 64 w Gentoo and a PVR 350 card. Right now I'm using a
> > separate video card for video output on an LCD monitor. I've got a
> > coaxial cable plugged into the back of the PVR 350. When using "cat
> > /dev/video0 > test.mpg" I get an empty file. I've tried searching the
> > mailing list, googling, various setup procedures found on the net, and
> > just different values but no luck. I'm not sure what's wrong and any help
> > would be appreciated. I'm posting what I think is relevant dmesg output:
>
> ...
>
> >ivtv0: Failed to load module tuner
> >ivtv0: Failed to load module saa7115
> >ivtv0: Failed to load module saa7127
> >ivtv0: Failed to load module msp3400
> >ivtv0: Failed to load module tda9887
>
> You have to install ivtv (for the kernel you're currently using) to use
> it...
>
> Or, perhaps someone forgot a "depmod -ae"
>
> Also, to get IvyTV init info, don't use a "grep ivtv" because much of
> the important stuff doesn't contain the string ivtv.  Instead, use:
>
> tac /var/log/messages |
> sed -n '/=\ \ END INIT IVTV\ \ =/,/= START INIT IVTV =/p;
>     /= START INIT IVTV =/q' |
> tac
>
> Fortunately, this time, the problem showed up...
>
> Mike
> _______________________________________________

In case it helps, the output looks like:

ivtv:  ==================== START INIT IVTV ====================
ivtv:  version 0.4.0 (tagged release) loading
ivtv:  Linux version: 2.6.13.4 gcc-3.4
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.
ivtv0: Autodetected WinTV PVR 350 card (iTVC15 based)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0c.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)
lirc_i2c: chip found @ 0x18 (Hauppauge IR)
ivtv0: i2c attach to card #0 ok [client=Hauppauge IR, addr=18]
lirc_dev: lirc_register_plugin: sample_rate: 10
ivtv0: Failed to load module tveeprom
ivtv0: Error -19 reading Hauppauge eeprom.
ivtv0: Possible causes: the tveeprom module was not loaded, or
ivtv0: the eeprom kernel module was loaded before the tveeprom module.
ivtv0: Failed to load module tuner
ivtv0: Failed to load module saa7115
ivtv0: Failed to load module saa7127
ivtv0: Failed to load module msp3400
ivtv0: Failed to load module tda9887
ivtv0: Could not detect tuner standard, defaulting to NTSC.
ivtv0: loading /lib/modules/ivtv-fw-enc.bin
ivtv0: loading /lib/modules/ivtv-fw-dec.bin
ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02050032
ivtv0: Decoder revision: 0x02020023
ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG stream: 2880 x 32768 buffers (92160KB total)
ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder YUV stream: 194 x 10800 buffers (2048KB total)
ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder VBI stream: 120 x 17472 buffers (2048KB total)
ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder PCM audio stream: 455 x 4608 buffers (2048KB 
total)
ivtv0: Create encoder radio stream
ivtv0: Allocate DMA decoder MPEG stream: 16 x 65536 buffers (1024KB total)
ivtv0: Allocate DMA decoder VBI stream: 512 x 2048 buffers (1024KB total)
ivtv0: Create decoder VOUT stream
ivtv0: Allocate DMA decoder YUV stream: 24 x 43200 buffers (1024KB total)
ivtv0: loading /lib/modules/ivtv_init_mpeg.bin
ivtv0: Initialized WinTV PVR 350, card #0
ivtv:  ====================  END INIT IVTV  ====================



More information about the mythtv-users mailing list