I believe that the problem is that the cx88 drivers are not supported in mythtv.

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is there anything i can do? to make it work?

search the mythtv archives. there were some people a while back that were having a little bit of luck with the new connexant chips, but not complete, though by now they may have worked it out.

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i found some cx88 drivers at http://linux.bytesex.org/v4l2/cx88.html

i untarred it but don't know what to do with the files now. i looked around the web but couldn't find a tutorial on basic driver installation. little stuff like this is what i hate about linux, but i know it is just part of the learning process.

can anyone help a fisherman learn to catch more fish?

Hi guys,

I have an ATI TV Wonder Pro card, because it looked like the best card - apparently bad cards are more compatible. Anyway, I get a blank screen with the V4L driver and static with the MPEG2 driver in myth. BUT when I use the TVtime Television Viewer I can watch TV no problem -- so the cx88 driver has loaded OK.

Anyone got an idea what's up?

last I heard cx88 driver was incompatible with mythtv, but that has been a while search or ask over on the mythtv mailing list.

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Any idea if there is a library, driver, etc. that I should be finding the dev/beta version of and compiling on my own?

No answer from the myth list yet, but I did send the eMail without a subject because I had a mail aliases problem -- I'll try again in a day.

I'm comtemplating buying one of these cards on the cheap...so I googled the config prob:

http://blog.vrplumber.com/673

-Bob K.

[root@mythbox mclare]# uname -a
Linux mythbox 2.6.11.11 #1 Tue Jun 7 22:42:26 EDT 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

That did it!

New problem, It is a little jerky.

I do have an old drive in this machine, but the cache folder is an NFS mount over 1000MB network connection to another fast drive. Should I start playing with hdparm or play with my mounts? Should I post to a new thread?

Here's my mount:

penguin:/var/myth/cache on /cache type nfs (rw,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr,addr=192.168.1.1)

Hi,

Followed vrplumber's tips and now I can get some sound out of mythtv, but live TV crashes a second or so after bringing up the guide.

I can watch tv (no sound) using xawtv, so the card and driver seem to be working just fine.

If I start mythfrontend on the command line as "mythtv" user, then I get the following as it dies. DO I need to add/dl/enable Xv?

mythtv $ mythfrontend
...

2005-06-25 15:04:45.272 Opening audio device '/dev/dsp0'.
2005-06-25 15:04:45.272 Opening OSS audio device '/dev/dsp0'.
***
* Couldn't find Xv support, falling back to non-Xv mode.
* MythTV performance will be much slower since color
* conversion and scaling will be done in software.
* Consider upgrading your video card or X server if
* you would like better performance.
X Error: XvBadPort 152
Major opcode: 141
Minor opcode: 15
Resource id: 0xffffffff
X Error: XvBadPort 152
Major opcode: 141
Minor opcode: 14
Resource id: 0xffffffff
2005-06-25 15:04:45.346 Couldn't get the color key color, and we need it.
You likely won't get any video.
2005-06-25 15:04:45.793 Realtime priority would require SUID as root.
2005-06-25 15:04:45.801 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2005-06-25 15:04:47.762 Video timing method: USleep with busy wait
Segmentation fault

mythtv $