<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">I have resolved the issue using a hauppauge pvr-150 and a 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 --set-audio-output /dev/audio <br>#now show the thing on player<br>mplayer -vo xv /dev/video0 -autosync 30<br><div> </div>Thank you,<br><br><br><br><div><br>Mark F. Kaufman<div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Ryan Headley <lifewithryan@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b>
ivtv-users@ivtvdriver.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, March 14, 2009 12:05:15 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [ivtv-users] PVR-350<br></font><br>
Pulling my hair out as this card was working a while back.<br>Recently installed latest MythBuntu (8.10 --Ibex, kernel 2.6.27-11)<br><br>Card is found, etc.<br>When doing cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg, the video is scrambled. i've seen several posts around the net on this same issue, but never a resolution. (Not sure if people just aren't getting 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 based)<br>
[ 9.008082] ivtv 0000:02:09.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21<br>[ 9.008097] ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)<br>[ 9.061650] ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350<br>
[ 9.937797] saa7115 0-0021: saa7115 found (1f7115d0e100000) @ 0x42 (ivtv i2c driver #0)<br>[ 10.497222] saa7127 0-0044: saa7127 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #0)<br>[ 10.510791] msp3400 0-0040: MSP4448G-A2 found @ 0x80 (ivtv i2c driver #0)<br>
[ 10.513538] tuner 0-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0)<br>[ 10.638629] ivtv0: Registered device video0 for encoder MPG (4096 kB)<br>[ 10.638680] ivtv0: Registered device video32 for encoder YUV (2048 kB)<br>
[ 10.638723] ivtv0: Registered device vbi0 for encoder VBI (1024 kB)<br>[ 10.638765] ivtv0: Registered device video24 for encoder PCM (320 kB)<br>[ 10.638807] ivtv0: Registered device radio0 for encoder radio<br>[ 10.638849] ivtv0: Registered device video16 for decoder MPG (1024 kB)<br>
[ 10.638893] ivtv0: Registered device vbi8 for decoder VBI (64 kB)<br>[ 10.638935] ivtv0: Registered device vbi16 for decoder VOUT<br>[ 10.638983] ivtv0: Registered device video48 for decoder YUV (1024 kB)<br>[ 10.638988] ivtv0: Initialized card #0: Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350<br>
[ 10.639244] ivtv: End initialization<br><br>doing a dmesg | ivtv I'm seeing some of this:[ 26.866394] ivtv0: Loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (376836 bytes)<br>[ 26.891332] ivtv0: Loaded v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw firmware (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 (155648 bytes)<br>[ 458.270706] ivtv0: All encoder MPG stream buffers are full. Dropping data.<br>
[ 458.270713] ivtv0: Cause: the application is not reading fast enough.<br>[ 458.562591] ivtv0: All encoder MPG stream buffers are full. Dropping data.<br>[ 458.562599] ivtv0: Cause: the application is not reading fast enough.<br>
<br><br>Here is the output of v4l2-ctl --log-status while recording (cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg):<br> [ 1676.827938] ivtv0: ================= START STATUS CARD #0 =================<br> [ 1676.827956] ivtv0: Version: 1.4.0 Card: Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350<br>
[ 1676.880987] tveeprom 0-0050: Hauppauge model 48132, rev J323, serial# 7065439<br> [ 1676.880991] tveeprom 0-0050: tuner model is Philips FM1236 (idx 23, type 2)<br> [ 1676.880995] tveeprom 0-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) (eeprom 0x08)<br>
[ 1676.880998] tveeprom 0-0050: audio processor is MSP4448 (idx 27)<br> [ 1676.881001] tveeprom 0-0050: decoder processor is SAA7115 (idx 19)<br> [ 1676.881004] tveeprom 0-0050: has radio, has IR receiver, 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 + 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 = 0x3042<br> [ 1676.895988] msp3400 0-0040: Audio: volume 58880<br> [ 1676.895992] msp3400 0-0040: Standard: 4.5 M BTSC-Stereo (stereo)<br> [ 1676.896010] msp3400 0-0040: Audmode: 0x0001<br>
[ 1676.896013] msp3400 0-0040: Routing: 0x00000000 (input) 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 (Stereo/Bilingual: Stereo/Left)<br> [ 1676.896041] ivtv0: Output Mode: None<br> [ 1676.896140] ivtv0: Overlay: Off, Alpha: Global, 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 Bitrate, 6000000, Peak 8000000<br>
[ 1676.896160] ivtv0: Video: GOP Size 15, 2 B-Frames, GOP Closure<br> [ 1676.896166] ivtv0: Audio: 48 kHz, Layer II, 224 kbps, Stereo, No Emphasis, No CRC<br> [ 1676.896170] ivtv0: Spatial Filter: Manual, Luma 1D Horizontal, Chroma 1D Horizontal, 0<br>
[ 1676.896175] ivtv0: Temporal Filter: Manual, 8<br> [ 1676.896177] ivtv0: Median Filter: Off, Luma [0, 255], Chroma [0, 255]<br> [ 1676.896180] ivtv0: Status flags: 0x402000c0<br> [ 1676.896184] ivtv0: Stream encoder MPG: status 0x0118, 2% of 4096 KiB (128 buffers) in use<br>
[ 1676.896187] ivtv0: Stream encoder YUV: status 0x0000, 0% of 2048 KiB (64 buffers) in use<br> [ 1676.896191] ivtv0: Stream encoder VBI: status 0x0000, 0% of 1040 KiB (61 buffers) in use<br> [ 1676.896194] ivtv0: Stream encoder PCM: status 0x0000, 0% of 324 KiB (72 buffers) in use<br>
[ 1676.896198] ivtv0: Stream decoder MPG: status 0x0000, 0% of 1024 KiB (16 buffers) in use<br> [ 1676.896201] ivtv0: Stream decoder VBI: status 0x0000, 0% of 65 KiB (29 buffers) in use<br> [ 1676.896205] ivtv0: Stream decoder YUV: status 0x0000, 0% of 1024 KiB (16 buffers) in use<br>
[ 1676.896208] ivtv0: Read MPG/VBI: 9359360/0 bytes<br> [ 1676.896210] ivtv0: ================== END STATUS CARD #0 ===============<br><br>The issue is the same as a few other have reported. Its recording video, but looks as if your trying to watch a channel that you aren't paying for circa 1988. Sound is fine (can be choppy).<br>
<br>I've tried us-cable, us-cable-hrc, us-cable-irc with the best results coming from us-cable. I've tried tweaking the frequency 1/10th at a time and occasionally saw "better" 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 clear="all"><br>-- <br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.sudovi.com/">http://www.sudovi.com/</a></span><br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.twitter.com/lifewithryan">http://www.twitter.com/lifewithryan</a></span><br><span>
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