[mythtv-users] N220GT nVidia Drivers

[Brian Wood]

On Wednesday, October 13, 2010 07:08:49 pm Greg Oliver wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 7:58 PM, mike at grounded.net <mike at grounded.net> wrote:
> >> I would strongly suggest trying the PVR outside of myth.  There are
> >> ways to do a test capture and then play that back using other tools
> >> like mplayer/xine/vlc.  Once you can actually capture, then you can
> >> integrate it into your myth system, which should be fairly trivial.
> >>
> > Building outside of myth, you mention that this has been mentioned but,
> > can't say I've seen that or missed it. Either way, you could also mean
> > manually, from the command line, without myth running which is what I'm
> > guessing you mean. I've seen those things mentioned. Still doesn't tell
> > me how to finish setting up this pvr-500 :).
> > 
> > Also, I wasn't actually thinking of capturing first, I first wanted to
> > nab local TV over ATSC which I thought this card does. I suppose however
> > that at this point, I don't care which I do first, just need to pull the
> > last bits together.
> > 
> >> You should check his guides
> >> out at http://wilsonet.com/?page_id=24
> >>
> > I have that in my notes but don't see anything on setting up the card.
> > 
> > The card is seen, looks like it's working ok in terms of no obvious
> > errors at least.
> > 
> > # lspci
> > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 0a20 (rev
> > a2) 01:00.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation Device 0be2 (rev a1)
> > 05:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16
> > (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01) 05:09.0 Multimedia video controller:
> > Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
> > 
> > Tried to find more in dmesg but it's filled with
> > lirc_serial: ignoring spike: 1 0 4cb64d35 4cb64d35 a12c1 a1280
> 
> It has been a long time since I used a capture card, but back in the
> day I used to use tvtime (for tv) and xawtv (to verify card
> functionality - it is tiny)..

Those are for frame-grabbers, not for cards with on-board MPEG compression. Best test is t just cat the output and play 
the file.