I've plugged the same coax into a regular TV and the signal was fine so we can rule that out. I've also tried removing the splitter so I'm going directly to the cable outlet with no luck either. God I hope its not the tuner...<br>
<br>As far as feeding it something good, would hooking up a video camera up to the thing tell me what I need to know? I have the little s-video to composite connector somewhere. Would I then use cat /dev/videoX > test.mpg where X is the number for the s-video IN??<br>
<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Andy Walls <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:awalls@radix.net">awalls@radix.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
You need to start narrowing down the problem and eliminating variables.<br>
<br>
<br>
Let's get the RF signal source and tuner out of the loop and see if<br>
things are better. Try feeding your PVR-350 with a knwon good DVD<br>
player, cable box, or VCR on the Composite or SVideo input.<br>
<br>
If the above test is good, you can blame the RF signal source, cabling,<br>
splitters, or tuner on the card. If the above test is not, then you can<br>
start looking at the Audio/Video Digitizer on the PVR-350.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<font color="#888888">Andy<br>
</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
<br>
On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 20:40 -0500, Ryan Headley wrote:<br>
> Not sure if that solution was directed at my PVR-350 issue, but if<br>
> thats the case...no love...still have the same issue.<br>
><br>
> *sigh*<br>
><br>
> Starting to think it *is* the card...dammit<br>
><br>
> Will have to try to find a windows box and see what happens..<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 2:17 AM, Mark Kaufman <<a href="mailto:markfkaufman@yahoo.com">markfkaufman@yahoo.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
> I have resolved the issue using a hauppauge pvr-150 and a<br>
> simple script<br>
><br>
><br>
> #! /bin/bash<br>
> #tune it to my cable box channel 3<br>
> ivtv-tune -c 3 -d /dev/video0<br>
> #use v4l2ctl to redirect audio<br>
> v4l2-ctl --set-audio-input 0 -d /dev/video0<br>
> --set-audio-output /dev/audio<br>
> #now show the thing on player<br>
> mplayer -vo xv /dev/video0 -autosync 30<br>
><br>
> Thank you,<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> Mark F. Kaufman<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> ______________________________________________________________<br>
> From: Ryan Headley <<a href="mailto:lifewithryan@gmail.com">lifewithryan@gmail.com</a>><br>
> To: <a href="mailto:ivtv-users@ivtvdriver.org">ivtv-users@ivtvdriver.org</a><br>
> Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 12:05:15 AM<br>
> Subject: [ivtv-users] PVR-350<br>
><br>
><br>
> Pulling my hair out as this card was working a while back.<br>
> Recently installed latest MythBuntu (8.10 --Ibex, kernel<br>
> 2.6.27-11)<br>
><br>
> Card is found, etc.<br>
> When doing cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg, the video is scrambled.<br>
> i've seen several posts around the net on this same issue, but<br>
> never a resolution. (Not sure if people just aren't getting<br>
> back to the list or what).<br>
><br>
> Anyway, I'd really like to get this to work again :)<br>
> Here is the detection from dmesg:<br>
><br>
> [ 8.964309] ivtv: Start initialization, version 1.4.0<br>
> [ 8.964510] ivtv0: Initializing card #0<br>
> [ 8.964516] ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge card (cx23415<br>
> based)<br>
> [ 9.008082] ivtv 0000:02:09.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 21 (level,<br>
> low) -> IRQ 21<br>
> [ 9.008097] ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting<br>
> to 64 (was 32)<br>
> [ 9.061650] ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350<br>
> [ 9.937797] saa7115 0-0021: saa7115 found (1f7115d0e100000)<br>
> @ 0x42 (ivtv i2c driver #0)<br>
> [ 10.497222] saa7127 0-0044: saa7127 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c<br>
> driver #0)<br>
> [ 10.510791] msp3400 0-0040: MSP4448G-A2 found @ 0x80 (ivtv<br>
> i2c driver #0)<br>
> [ 10.513538] tuner 0-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c<br>
> driver #0)<br>
> [ 10.638629] ivtv0: Registered device video0 for encoder MPG<br>
> (4096 kB)<br>
> [ 10.638680] ivtv0: Registered device video32 for encoder<br>
> YUV (2048 kB)<br>
> [ 10.638723] ivtv0: Registered device vbi0 for encoder VBI<br>
> (1024 kB)<br>
> [ 10.638765] ivtv0: Registered device video24 for encoder<br>
> PCM (320 kB)<br>
> [ 10.638807] ivtv0: Registered device radio0 for encoder<br>
> radio<br>
> [ 10.638849] ivtv0: Registered device video16 for decoder<br>
> MPG (1024 kB)<br>
> [ 10.638893] ivtv0: Registered device vbi8 for decoder VBI<br>
> (64 kB)<br>
> [ 10.638935] ivtv0: Registered device vbi16 for decoder VOUT<br>
> [ 10.638983] ivtv0: Registered device video48 for decoder<br>
> YUV (1024 kB)<br>
> [ 10.638988] ivtv0: Initialized card #0: Hauppauge WinTV<br>
> PVR-350<br>
> [ 10.639244] ivtv: End initialization<br>
><br>
> doing a dmesg | ivtv I'm seeing some of this:[ 26.866394]<br>
> ivtv0: Loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (376836 bytes)<br>
> [ 26.891332] ivtv0: Loaded v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw firmware<br>
> (262144 bytes)<br>
> [ 27.088352] ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02060039<br>
> [ 27.088483] ivtv0: Decoder revision: 0x02020023<br>
> [ 27.151554] ivtv0: Loaded v4l-cx2341x-init.mpg firmware<br>
> (155648 bytes)<br>
> [ 458.270706] ivtv0: All encoder MPG stream buffers are full.<br>
> Dropping data.<br>
> [ 458.270713] ivtv0: Cause: the application is not reading<br>
> fast enough.<br>
> [ 458.562591] ivtv0: All encoder MPG stream buffers are full.<br>
> Dropping data.<br>
> [ 458.562599] ivtv0: Cause: the application is not reading<br>
> fast enough.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Here is the output of v4l2-ctl --log-status while recording<br>
> (cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg):<br>
> [ 1676.827938] ivtv0: ================= START STATUS CARD<br>
> #0 =================<br>
> [ 1676.827956] ivtv0: Version: 1.4.0 Card: Hauppauge WinTV<br>
> PVR-350<br>
> [ 1676.880987] tveeprom 0-0050: Hauppauge model 48132, rev<br>
> J323, serial# 7065439<br>
> [ 1676.880991] tveeprom 0-0050: tuner model is Philips<br>
> FM1236 (idx 23, type 2)<br>
> [ 1676.880995] tveeprom 0-0050: TV standards NTSC(M)<br>
> (eeprom 0x08)<br>
> [ 1676.880998] tveeprom 0-0050: audio processor is MSP4448<br>
> (idx 27)<br>
> [ 1676.881001] tveeprom 0-0050: decoder processor is<br>
> SAA7115 (idx 19)<br>
> [ 1676.881004] tveeprom 0-0050: has radio, has IR receiver,<br>
> has no IR transmitter<br>
> [ 1676.881010] saa7115 0-0021: Audio frequency: 48000 Hz<br>
> [ 1676.887057] saa7115 0-0021: Input: Composite 4<br>
> [ 1676.887065] saa7115 0-0021: Video signal: VCR<br>
> [ 1676.887068] saa7115 0-0021: Frequency: 60 Hz<br>
> [ 1676.887070] saa7115 0-0021: Detected format: NTSC<br>
> [ 1676.887073] saa7115 0-0021: Width, Height: 720, 480<br>
> [ 1676.887077] saa7127 0-0044: Standard: 60 Hz<br>
> [ 1676.887080] saa7127 0-0044: Input: normal<br>
> [ 1676.887082] saa7127 0-0044: Output: S-Video +<br>
> Composite<br>
> [ 1676.887085] saa7127 0-0044: WSS: disabled<br>
> [ 1676.887087] saa7127 0-0044: VPS: disabled<br>
> [ 1676.887089] saa7127 0-0044: CC: disabled<br>
> [ 1676.895982] msp3400 0-0040: msp3400 rev1 = 0x0117 rev2 =<br>
> 0x3042<br>
> [ 1676.895988] msp3400 0-0040: Audio: volume 58880<br>
> [ 1676.895992] msp3400 0-0040: Standard: 4.5 M BTSC-Stereo<br>
> (stereo)<br>
> [ 1676.896010] msp3400 0-0040: Audmode: 0x0001<br>
> [ 1676.896013] msp3400 0-0040: Routing: 0x00000000 (input)<br>
> 0x00000044 (output)<br>
> [ 1676.896015] msp3400 0-0040: ACB: 0x0c00<br>
> [ 1676.896020] tuner 0-0061: Tuner mode: analog TV<br>
> [ 1676.896023] tuner 0-0061: Frequency: 175.50 MHz<br>
> [ 1676.896025] tuner 0-0061: Standard: 0x0000b000<br>
> [ 1676.896031] ivtv0: Video Input: Tuner 1<br>
> [ 1676.896033] ivtv0: Audio Input: Tuner 1<br>
> [ 1676.896036] ivtv0: Video Output: S-Video + Composite<br>
> [ 1676.896039] ivtv0: Audio Output: A/V Audio Out<br>
> (Stereo/Bilingual: Stereo/Left)<br>
> [ 1676.896041] ivtv0: Output Mode: None<br>
> [ 1676.896140] ivtv0: Overlay: Off, Alpha: Global,<br>
> Pixel Format: ARGB 8:8:8:8<br>
> [ 1676.896143] ivtv0: Tuner: TV<br>
> [ 1676.896147] ivtv0: Stream: MPEG-2 Program Stream<br>
> [ 1676.896150] ivtv0: VBI Format: No VBI<br>
> [ 1676.896152] ivtv0: Video: 720x480, 30 fps<br>
> [ 1676.896156] ivtv0: Video: MPEG-2, 4x3, Variable<br>
> Bitrate, 6000000, Peak 8000000<br>
> [ 1676.896160] ivtv0: Video: GOP Size 15, 2 B-Frames, GOP<br>
> Closure<br>
> [ 1676.896166] ivtv0: Audio: 48 kHz, Layer II, 224 kbps,<br>
> Stereo, No Emphasis, No CRC<br>
> [ 1676.896170] ivtv0: Spatial Filter: Manual, Luma 1D<br>
> Horizontal, Chroma 1D Horizontal, 0<br>
> [ 1676.896175] ivtv0: Temporal Filter: Manual, 8<br>
> [ 1676.896177] ivtv0: Median Filter: Off, Luma [0, 255],<br>
> Chroma [0, 255]<br>
> [ 1676.896180] ivtv0: Status flags: 0x402000c0<br>
> [ 1676.896184] ivtv0: Stream encoder MPG: status 0x0118, 2%<br>
> of 4096 KiB (128 buffers) in use<br>
> [ 1676.896187] ivtv0: Stream encoder YUV: status 0x0000, 0%<br>
> of 2048 KiB (64 buffers) in use<br>
> [ 1676.896191] ivtv0: Stream encoder VBI: status 0x0000, 0%<br>
> of 1040 KiB (61 buffers) in use<br>
> [ 1676.896194] ivtv0: Stream encoder PCM: status 0x0000, 0%<br>
> of 324 KiB (72 buffers) in use<br>
> [ 1676.896198] ivtv0: Stream decoder MPG: status 0x0000, 0%<br>
> of 1024 KiB (16 buffers) in use<br>
> [ 1676.896201] ivtv0: Stream decoder VBI: status 0x0000, 0%<br>
> of 65 KiB (29 buffers) in use<br>
> [ 1676.896205] ivtv0: Stream decoder YUV: status 0x0000, 0%<br>
> of 1024 KiB (16 buffers) in use<br>
> [ 1676.896208] ivtv0: Read MPG/VBI: 9359360/0 bytes<br>
> [ 1676.896210] ivtv0: ================== END STATUS CARD<br>
> #0 ===============<br>
><br>
> The issue is the same as a few other have reported. Its<br>
> recording video, but looks as if your trying to watch a<br>
> channel that you aren't paying for circa 1988. Sound is fine<br>
> (can be choppy).<br>
><br>
> I've tried us-cable, us-cable-hrc, us-cable-irc with the best<br>
> results coming from us-cable. I've tried tweaking the<br>
> frequency 1/10th at a time and occasionally saw "better"<br>
> results -- meaning not as scrambled, but still scrambled.<br>
><br>
> What more does anyone need? I'd love to get this resolved...<br>
><br>
> Thanks,<br>
> Ryan<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
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