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I have tryed the cat command all I get in the .mpg is snow . I tryes to use |
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composit video and still get snow. Do I have to tell the tuner to tune to |
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line in port |
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rob |
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On Sunday 16 July 2006 20:00, Nick Rout wrote: |
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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 |
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> format from the card. For example the tvtime supported cards list says: |
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> |
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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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> |
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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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> |
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> or just: |
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> |
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> mplayer /dev/video |
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> |
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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 |
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> composite to work. |
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> |
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> |
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> On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 16:53:29 -0400 |
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> |
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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 |
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> > > > > thease to show TV most say device not configured. Evan the ones |
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> > > > > that I know 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. |
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> > Now the tuner comes up and using the ivtv test it now captures only snow |
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> > but it is a start. I have tryed to change channel but it doesn't work. |
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> > Even line in gives me the same thing. Any other seguestions |
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> > |
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> > rob |
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> > -- |
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> > gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |
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> |
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> -- |
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> Nick Rout <nick@×××××××.nz> |
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