MythTV Setup Guide/HOWTO

[strider3700]

hauppauge wintv 250

It should work. I have to admit I didn't understand half of the directions I followed when setting up the IVTV module so If those settings aren't exact every time I would never notice

[Hobbes-X]

Yep- should be fine with the PVR250.

Does dmesg register any complaints when it trys to load ivtv?

Care to post some other background info too?
kernel and ivtv version and /etc/modules.d/ivtv? Are you using the emerged ivtv, or did you compile your own separately?

[strider3700]

output from dmesg mentioning ivtv. This repeats about 20 times

[Hobbes-X]

[Luud]

Also,

Try not specifying any options for the modules. Let the modules figure it out themselves. This should work best usually.

Only specify options when that doesn't work. And only those necessary.

The log file should tell you what you have in there.
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[mojoandy]

[strider3700]

dmesg fresh after a reboot.

[Hobbes-X]

[strider3700]

Nothings ever easy is it

[strider3700]

OK I found frequencies.pm on source forge, and ivtv.pm but Inifiles.pm is stumping me

Never mind Google is my friend


However now that I can change channels I still get nothing but a funky green screen

[Hobbes-X]

As long as the cable signal is working, then the green screen is most likely the card trying to use the wrong tuner. (esentially the green is from a weak signal) Try checking dmesg for signs of the card assuming a certain tuner.

Are you in NTSC, or PAL land?

[strider3700]

ntsc.
I'm assuming it's a tuner issue, I'll take some time and run through them all and see what I get.

[Hobbes-X]

NTSC should be tuner type 2, but you can check the eeprom on the card to be sure:

[strider3700]

[JHuizingh]

I spent many hours of trying to get a driver to load which only caused the system to hang for a pvr-250 card that has the label:

[JHuizingh]

I got the ivtv driver to load for my hauppage pvr-250 card, and it seems to be working (sort of). I get the correct /dev/video0 device, and when I "cat /dev/video0 > test_capture.mpg" it creates a file that gets gradually bigger. I can play back the file in mplayer and xine, but it is just a black window... Seems ok so far.

I think I have mythtv set up properly, and when I go into mythfrontend and go to watch tv, I just see static. I am able to cycle through all of the channels that I have set up, but I just see static on all of them. I just have broadcast tv, but A tv that's on the other side of the room gets all of those channels clearly.

I'm not sure what to do to find this problem. Is it the problem of the antenna? Is it the problem with the capture card? Is it the problem of the mythtv settings? Can somebody point me in the right direction?

[strider3700]

JHuizingh this is exactly the problem that I'm stuck at currently. Hobbes-X has been a huge help to get me this far and he thinks that it's an issue of tuning.
I'm in agreement, A couple days ago I got staticor a green screen but now all I get is black. not sure whats changed.

[Hobbes-X]

Hi Strider3700-

Might have found something for you on the ivtv mailing list: http://www.poptix.net/ivtv/Sep-2004/msg00112.html

Looks like there might be another type of tuner showing up. Short answer is try tuner type 39, but you might want to check the message out and see if anything looks familiar.

Looks like someone else has an idx 82, anyways. Hopefully you won't need to edit driver files

[Hobbes-X]

JHuizingh,

Looks like you might have a similar problem to Strider- as long as you get a file bigger than 0 bytes when you run cat /dev/video0 >> test.mpg, the black screen means that you're capturing from an input other than the tuner. Myth seems to do some smart-checking to match to the tuner input on it's own (or at least, it identifies the tuner input correctly when it lists the inputs available when setting the card up.)

Since you're getting static when running myth, the card is probably detecting the wrong tuner, or you've got it specified to use one that doesn't match.

Try this out (from the ivtv wiki's FAQ) to see which tuner the card identifies itself with:

[strider3700]

ok I dropped the old options line and added the new one to modules.d/ivtv

did a modprobe -r ivtv and then modprobe ivtv.

Nothing but static when I use mplayer to directly read the stream. nothing buy jumping green when piped to a file and played through xine.

I did a modprobe -r tveeprom and then the insmod tveeprom to see what it says and it still shows it as an unknown tuner type. Perhaps tommorrow evening I can take some time to learn about driver hacking

[Hobbes-X]

[JHuizingh]

Hobbes-X,

Thanks. I triend tuner=39. Now it works... sort of. When I do the 'cat /dev/video0 > first_capture.mpg', and then play that file back in mplayer, I actually see the video and hear the audio!

Unfortunately it doesn't quite work when I try to watch live tv in myth. Yesterday when I posted, I was getting the heads up display in front of static. Now I can hear the audio, but I don't see the HUD or the static. I made sure that I was using the right opengl drivers by doing 'opengl-update nvidia', I'm not sure where else to check. Can you point me in the right direction?

Thanks for the help so far.

[Hobbes-X]

Does that mean you get audio, but a black screen with no OSD? I get the same issue if I have another XV capable video player that is still open, like kaffeine in the system tray, after playing a video.

[JHuizingh]

Hobbes-X,

You interpreted my post correctly. I meant OSD, not HUD. I knew I'd seen some acronym like that before and HUD was the one I thought of first. I must have had another player open, because I rebooted and it was solved.

Now I just need to get rid of the cards that I couldn't get to work and buy another card that I could get to work, and then I can start enjoying . Thanks for the help.

[Hobbes-X]