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You have a pvr-150 which has onboard mpeg2 encoding. Most standard v4l |
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software will not play tv from such a card, because it expects a different format from the card. For example the tvtime supported cards |
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list says: |
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"The ivtv driver supports cards that provide high quality MPEG2 encoded |
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video. This cards are ideal for PVR systems. However, tvtime has no |
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MPEG2 decoding capabilities or audio playback code, and therefore cannot |
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be used to watch live TV from these cards." |
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Try |
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cat /dev/video0 > test.mpeg |
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ctrl-c to stop |
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mplayer test.mpeg |
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or just: |
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mplayer /dev/video |
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you can tune the card and adjust the inputs etc with the tools provided |
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by ivtv. Mine is permanently set to the composite inputs as it used for |
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the output from a set top box. I have never used the tuner. getting an |
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external composite video signal like a set top box output a VHS player |
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is a good way to test. Move onto the tuner once you are sure you can get composite to work. |
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On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 16:53:29 -0400 |
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rob wrote: |
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> On Saturday 15 July 2006 14:15, Uwe Thiem wrote: |
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> > On 15 July 2006 18:25, Richard Fish wrote: |
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> > > On 7/15/06, rob <gentoo@×××××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> > > > emerged most of the stuff in media-tv but I can't get anyone of thease |
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> > > > to show TV most say device not configured. Evan the ones that I know |
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> > > > point to /dev/video0 |
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> > > > I think I did everything right. |
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> > > > pleas help or tell me of a better card to use. |
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> > > |
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> > > Are you sure this is a card problem, and not a permissions issue? It |
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> > > looks like udev makes most of the device nodes in the "video" group. |
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> > > Is your user account a member of that group? |
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> > |
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> Well I emerged gentoo-sources with ~86 gave me linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r3. Now the |
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> tuner comes up and using the ivtv test it now captures only snow but it is a |
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> start. I have tryed to change channel but it doesn't work. Even line in gives |
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> me the same thing. Any other seguestions |
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> rob |
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