On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 09:38 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 9/15/06, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <SNIP> > > Total size of downloads: 0 kB > > camille ~ # uname -a > > Linux camille 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 #1 SMP Fri Sep 15 09:56:25 CDT 2006 i686 > > Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.66GHz GNU/Linux > > camille ~ # > > > > I cat /dev/video0 > temp.mpg and watched it, but there wasn't anything > > there. What I mean is, although there was a black background in > > gmplayer, I didn't see any TV programming. Can anyone help with this? > > > > MIchael, > Sorry you're having these problems. I've been through the same sort > of thing a number of times. > > 1) Until you can cat ivtv output to a file and get video in that file > don't bother with MythTV. > > 2) After you get file playback working my experience is that you > should delete your current cards and connetions, leaving the Zap2It > stuff alone, and then recreate the cards and connections. > > Can you rmmod all the ivtv modules - all of them - and then > modprobe ivtv again and post the output in dmesg? do an lsmod ahead of > the modprobe so ensure everything is really unloaded. > > Cheers, > Mark
OK. I did what you said, and I do get a signal from /dev/video0 now, but mythfrontend still won't show LiveTV. Here's the output from mythfrontend: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ mythfrontend 2006-09-15 11:56:00.615 Using runtime prefix = /usr 2006-09-15 11:56:00.659 XScreenSaver support enabled 2006-09-15 11:56:00.744 New DB connection, total: 1 2006-09-15 11:56:00.751 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost 2006-09-15 11:56:00.754 Total desktop dim: 1024x768, with 1 screen[s]. 2006-09-15 11:56:00.759 Using screen 0, 1024x768 at 0,0 2006-09-15 11:56:00.772 Current Schema Version: 1123 2006-09-15 11:56:00.772 mythfrontend version: 0.19.20060121-2 www.mythtv.org 2006-09-15 11:56:00.772 Enabled verbose msgs: important general 2006-09-15 11:56:01.257 lang0: eng 2006-09-15 11:56:01.257 lang: eng 2006-09-15 11:56:01.290 lang1: eng 2006-09-15 11:56:01.290 lang: eng 2006-09-15 11:56:01.408 Total desktop dim: 1024x768, with 1 screen[s]. 2006-09-15 11:56:01.410 Using screen 0, 1024x768 at 0,0 2006-09-15 11:56:01.412 Switching to square mode (G.A.N.T.) mythtv: could not connect to socket mythtv: No such file or directory lirc_init failed for mythtv, see preceding messages 2006-09-15 11:56:01.887 Joystick disabled. 2006-09-15 11:56:02.032 Registering Internal as a media playback plugin. 2006-09-15 11:56:02.851 Starting media monitor. 2006-09-15 11:56:05.985 New DB connection, total: 2 2006-09-15 11:56:05.986 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host: localhost 2006-09-15 11:56:06.044 Connecting to backend server: 192.168.1.3:6543 (try 1 of 5) 2006-09-15 11:56:06.066 Using protocol version 26 2006-09-15 11:56:06.189 TV: Attempting to change from None to WatchingLiveTV 2006-09-15 11:56:06.198 Using protocol version 26 2006-09-15 11:56:26.656 TV Error: StartRecorder() -- timed out waiting for recorder to start 2006-09-15 11:56:26.656 TV Error: LiveTV not successfully started 2006-09-15 11:56:26.664 TV: Deleting TV Chain in destructor If it's helpful, here's my dmesg info: camille ~ # dmesg | grep 'ivtv' ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV ==================== ivtv: version 0.7.0 (tagged release) loading ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 SMP mod_unload 486 gcc-4.1 ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info between ivtv: the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines, along with ivtv: any module options, when mailing the ivtv-users mailinglist. ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250 card (cx23416 based) ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32) tuner 0-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0) tda9887 0-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (ivtv i2c driver #0) saa7115 0-0021: saa7115 found @ 0x42 (ivtv i2c driver #0) msp3400 0-0040: MSP4448G-A2 found @ 0x80 (ivtv i2c driver #0) ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (262144 bytes) ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02050032 ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG stream: 128 x 32768 buffers (4096KB 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: Initialized Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250, card #0 ivtv: ==================== END INIT IVTV ==================== ivtv0: Removed Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250, card #0 ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV ==================== ivtv: version 0.7.0 (tagged release) loading ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 SMP mod_unload 486 gcc-4.1 ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info between ivtv: the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines, along with ivtv: any module options, when mailing the ivtv-users mailinglist. ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250 card (cx23416 based) tuner 0-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0) tda9887 0-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (ivtv i2c driver #0) saa7115 0-0021: saa7115 found @ 0x42 (ivtv i2c driver #0) msp3400 0-0040: MSP4448G-A2 found @ 0x80 (ivtv i2c driver #0) ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (262144 bytes) ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02050032 ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG stream: 128 x 32768 buffers (4096KB 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: Initialized Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250, card #0 ivtv: ==================== END INIT IVTV ==================== ivtv0: Removed Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250, card #0 ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV ==================== ivtv: version 0.7.0 (tagged release) loading ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 SMP mod_unload 486 gcc-4.1 ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info between ivtv: the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines, along with ivtv: any module options, when mailing the ivtv-users mailinglist. ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250 card (cx23416 based) tuner 0-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0) tda9887 0-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (ivtv i2c driver #0) saa7115 0-0021: saa7115 found @ 0x42 (ivtv i2c driver #0) msp3400 0-0040: MSP4448G-A2 found @ 0x80 (ivtv i2c driver #0) ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (262144 bytes) ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02050032 ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG stream: 128 x 32768 buffers (4096KB 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: Initialized Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250, card #0 ivtv: ==================== END INIT IVTV ==================== ivtv0: Removed Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250, card #0 ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV ==================== ivtv: version 0.7.0 (tagged release) loading ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 SMP mod_unload 486 gcc-4.1 ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info between ivtv: the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines, along with ivtv: any module options, when mailing the ivtv-users mailinglist. ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250 card (cx23416 based) tuner 0-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0) tda9887 0-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (ivtv i2c driver #0) saa7115 0-0021: saa7115 found @ 0x42 (ivtv i2c driver #0) msp3400 0-0040: MSP4448G-A2 found @ 0x80 (ivtv i2c driver #0) ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (262144 bytes) ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02050032 ivtv0: Allocate DMA encoder MPEG stream: 128 x 32768 buffers (4096KB 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: Initialized Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250, card #0 ivtv: ==================== END INIT IVTV ==================== camille ~ # Also, I'm using mythtv-0.19_p9163-r1: camille ~ # emerge -pv mythtv These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] media-tv/mythtv-0.19_p10505 [0.19_p9163-r1] USE="alsa debug dvb dvd jack joystick lirc mmx opengl vorbis (-altivec) -backendonly -dbox2 -frontendonly -ieee1394 -lcd -xvmc" VIDEO_CARDS="i810 via -nvidia" 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB camille ~ # -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
