From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EvfQ4-0003dB-OM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 08 Jan 2006 18:37:33 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k08IYRxm013915; Sun, 8 Jan 2006 18:34:27 GMT Received: from bullet.espersunited.com (24-117-226-93.cpe.cableone.net [24.117.226.93]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k08IVble002263 for ; Sun, 8 Jan 2006 18:31:38 GMT Received: from camille.espersunited.com (camille.espersunited.com [192.168.1.3]) by bullet.espersunited.com (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k08IVbqw001240 for ; Sun, 8 Jan 2006 12:31:37 -0600 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Need MythTV setup help (resend) From: Michael Sullivan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0601081018x5dd916cw106d03ffd6632f42@mail.gmail.com> References: <1135878795.9187.17.camel@camille.espersunited.com> <1136156252.3686.2.camel@camille.espersunited.com> <20060101174719.0a21e8de@chi.speakeasy.net> <20060101192012.7dce0470@chi.speakeasy.net> <1136680929.9948.4.camel@camille.espersunited.com> <20060107195002.7f9200f9@chi.speakeasy.net> <1136697447.10009.2.camel@camille.espersunited.com> <20060108085031.5e850782@chi.speakeasy.net> <5bdc1c8b0601080932u2edb0562xdad5c8e0c5abd238@mail.gmail.com> <1136742815.9839.0.camel@camille.espersunited.com> <5bdc1c8b0601081018x5dd916cw106d03ffd6632f42@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 12:31:37 -0600 Message-Id: <1136745097.9839.10.camel@camille.espersunited.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 57129bef-78d4-4817-a575-0f4f6e20560e X-Archives-Hash: a9ab32d0051ecdb702b8bb7179d52b5a On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 10:18 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 1/8/06, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 09:32 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I tried the test "cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg" and opening it in mplayer > > > > and all I got was the blank screen. > > > > > > I've been through this numerous times. It's no fun. Sorry. > > > > > > First, and most important, what does dmesg about ivtv show when you boot? > > > > > > > michael@camille ~ $ dmesg | grep 'ivtv' > > ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV ==================== > > > ivtv: ==================== END INIT IVTV ==================== > > michael@camille ~ $ > > That looked OK to me. > > > > > > > > Second, when you record 10 seconds of data to test.mpg what is the > > > file size? Zero/small means ivtv simply isn't working. Large means it > > > is but the tuner or something else is not working correctly. > > > > > camille ~ # cat /dev/video0 > temp.mpg > > > > camille ~ # ls -lh temp.mpg > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13M Jan 8 11:46 temp.mpg > > So you are getting 'data', even if it was black. I see in a second > email you got a picture now. That's good. > > > > > Note that there are a number of us that are unable to reboot PVR > > > cards. We must cold boot them to have them operate correctly. Info > > > will show up in dmesg if you are one of this unfortunate select group. > > > lspci -x after a warm and cold boot would show a difference. > > > > > > > > 05:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 > > (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01) > > 00: 44 44 16 00 16 01 10 02 01 00 00 04 10 40 00 00 > > 10: 08 00 00 d0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > > 20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 70 00 01 48 > > 30: 00 00 00 00 44 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 01 80 08 > > > > > And here is lspci -x from a "warm" boot: > > > > > 05:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 > > (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01) > > 00: 44 44 16 00 16 01 10 02 01 00 00 04 10 40 00 00 > > 10: 08 00 00 d0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > > 20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 70 00 01 48 > > 30: 00 00 00 00 44 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 01 80 08 > > > You are lucky. You do not have the problem I have. > > OK, since your other email said you got a picture but Myth isn't > seeing it please try removing the current card setup in mythsetup and > recreating it. I've had a couple of times where an ivtv update caused > the existing card settings to not work. I delete them, recreate it > from scratch, and I'm back to the races. > > On other possibility is how you are linking the PVR to Myth. Did yuo > set the video device to /dev/v4l/video0 (not /dev/video0) and the > default input to Tuner 0? In the input connections section did you set > Tuner 0 to your cable listing from Zap2It? > /dev/video0 is a symbolic link to /dev/v4l/video0: camille ~ # ls -l /dev/video0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 8 05:51 /dev/video0 -> v4l/video0 In mythtsetup's Input Connections the only one I have set is the Tuner one and it's hooked to a Video Source named Cable which is set up with DataDirect. I'll try deleting the settings and starting over... > Hope this helps, > Mark > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list