[mythtv-users] Myth and 64 bit OK? Seeing too many issues

[Teruel de Campo MD]

1. TUNER SETUP:

Download the video frequencies: 

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ivtv/Video-Frequencies-0.03.tar.gz?download

Download the video
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ivtv/Video-ivtv-0.13tar.gz?download

Download the config-ini files
http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/W/WA/WADG/Config-IniFiles-2.38.tar.gz
need it to run ptune)

2. LOAD THE FIRMWARE

#depmod -ae
#modprobe ivtv

if you do not load the firmware when you try to install the perl modules
like Video-ivtv-0.13 it will complain that video0 does not exis  ++++

3. DO THE INSTALLATIONS

Config-IniFiles-2.38
Video-Frequencies-0.03
Video-ivtv-0.13

in each new source directory do the following

# perl Makefile.PL
# make
# make test
# make install 

Sometimes the make test will not find the file; its ok

3. TEST THE INSTALLATION.

Load tuner:

cd to the ~/mm/ivtv-0.6.3/utils/perl 

$ perl ptune-ui.pl

now you should see the graphic tuner.

Load the tv application

$ mplayer /dev/video0

if you have problem droping frames or closing the application add some
cache like

$mplayer -cache 8192 /dev/video0

4. ETC

I did not include the installation of ivtv neither mplayer 

In my system running SuSE 10.1 64 mythtv is working perfect. BTW I have
not had any problems with SuSE 64 in any place except in faad2 trying to
decode itunes.

Regards,

-=terry(Denver)=-






On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 18:38 -0600, Mark wrote:
> Thank you,
> 
> How do I test ivtv with mplayer? cat /dev/video > file then view?
> That works if I rmmod ivtv and modprobe it back in.  Then it seems to screw 
> up again later.
> 
> MArk
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Teruel de Campo MD" <    >
> To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
> Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 6:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Myth and 64 bit OK? Seeing too many issues
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 18:16 -0600, Mark wrote:
> 
> > This time, I have an athlon 64 ( FC5 X64 version ) and a PVR 500.
> 
> I have been running MythTV in a wintv-pvr-350 since SuSE 9.2 all in 64.
> I have now amd fx-55 and SuSE 10.1.
> 
> With this new kernel the installation of ivtv changes a little bit. ivtv
> 0.6.3 has been the key in the installation. I could not compile 0.6.2.
> SuSE 10.1 (box) is a pretty solid distro. I do not have experience with
> others :-(
> My suggestion would be to first test the ivtv module with mplayer. If OK
> then the problem is with myth. I first load the ptune-ui and then
> mplayer and I have a TV application. If you have problem with these
> steps please e-mail me.
> 
> -=terry(Denver)=-
> 
> 
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