On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 10:18 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 1/8/06, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 09:32 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? > > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ dmesg | grep 'ivtv' > > ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV ==================== > <SNIP> > > ivtv: ==================== END INIT IVTV ==================== > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ > > 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. > > > > <SNIP> > > > > 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 > <SNIP> > > > > And here is lspci -x from a "warm" boot: > <SNIP> > > > > 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 > <SNIP> > > 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? > > Hope this helps, > Mark >
It seems to be working now. Sort of. mythfrontend isn't lasting longer than a second and a half. mythbackend is still dying seemingly randomly. It's not leaving logs in /var/log/mythtv. How can I find out why it's dying so as to find a way to stop it from dying? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
