That is the problem with making a detailed list of instructions (for rookies like me), the drivers change weekly.

When you switched to type '44' did you notice the channels above 61 can be watched, but they are not crystal clear? They are still very watchable, but they just aren't the quality of the lower than 61 channels? Are perhaps I'm just being paranoid.


What are you Canadian

You may want to check what you have in MythTv setup for your start channel. On my cable 3 is Spanish and 4 is blank so I start on 5...

Also as a side note is your remote working?

As do the Tuner modules Hauppauge use on their cards!

I'm putting together a list of instructions including my slight modifications and other tweaks. It's a growing list: cd/dvd chown fix, mythlink fix for /myth/pretty directory, mythweb access lockdown, ntpd setup, video_dir/videos_url fix for mythweb, suid and nice mods, and if cesman doesn't mind, the 0.3.1z archive when I get my webserver back up. Probably more soon.



Might be the price we pay for not using the tuner type=47, which requires either a newer kernel or cesman's recent backport module patches.



Heck, I've got the Shuttle system I'm experimenting on on the far side of an active (amplified) two-output splitter, a 4-way professional-grade splitter and a 2-way consumer-grade passive splitter and over 120 feet of extra indoor cable(s). So, everything looks bad due to low-signal and reflections in the cable (hence my comments on the other thread).

Once I'm sure I've licked all the problems, I'll be moving things around and let you know.



You know, sometimes I wish I were these days.



Default was 2 or 3. Not sure why that was blank until the first channel change, since both are valid here, but it was.



Haven't tried it yet (still experimenting, as above). Just using the keyboard for now.

-brendan

You can put all that stuff up on the wiki and then everyone can benifit from it, and some of the stuff that affects every install if you post to the FAQ I will get it up on there too.

Thanks

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Will do, hopefully this weekend. Still sorting out the blinky keyboard (kernel panic) problem. In my case, looks like it is KVM-usage-related. Will be investigating USB/mouse bios settings and/or X11/mouse settings next.

-brendan

I've just discovered a few minor issues after getting my tv-out to work on the 350. I have a cheap hauppage 878 based card ,bought for $18, that I am using as a second tuner.

Problem 1
When I'm recording on my 350 and trying to watch live tv from my 878 card, the video is really choppy. I changed the transcoding from mpeg 4 to rtjpeg with no help. I also noticed that recordings made from the 350 that are transcoded to mpeg 4 are choppy when played on the tv.

Problem 2
I'm not able to change the resolution when watching video on the tv. I've tried Settings | Appearance, with no luck. Has anyone else noticed that the video doesn't fit the tv? I used to use the zoom and aspect ratio options to adjust playback (w key). But, that no longer works with tv-out..?
Thanks.

I don't believe that you can do anything to the mpeg2 stream when you are in the Live-TV view mode. I have recorded something, then after it finished tried to edit it during viewing and it crashed the Myth frontend. It is only after I transcode it to mpeg4 that I can then edit. And the same goes for changing the aspect ratios and zooming from what I have seen.

this has been covered ad nausous, but the reason that video from your bt878 card studders is because it is not mpeg2. the only thing that the pvr350 output accelerates is mpeg2, also why your transcoded files studder. The reason it can't play anything other than mpeg2 smoothly, is because it does not support xv acceleration, on the pvr350 tvout.

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That is what I thought. And the second question? Is there any way to change the resolution so live tv doesn't go off the tv screen?

Never mind my post. It was a behind the keyboard error.

I can't figure out where to put this ivtvctl command. When I enter it in an Xterm window it fixes my color problems like it is supposed to. My problem is getting X and the MythTV menu to load on the TV out. I tried putting the command in bootmisc.sh or in .fvwm2rc but neither seemed to do the trick. I still get green and purple.

For someone who is unable to look at the directory stucture for downloading the drivers here is a little help.

Use: wget http://205.209.168.201/~ckennedy/ivtv/ivtv-0.3/OLD/

as the base and then insert the file you want after that. So if you wanted the original driver that XM301 used you would type:

wget http://205.209.168.201/~ckennedy/ivtv/i ... 0.3.1x.tgz

All of the utilities files are in the same directory as eachother, so if you want a specific version, just specify that file name in the same directory as any of the examples in this thread.

I also had to use this for the composite tv-out:
exec ivtvctl -j reg=0x6c,val=0xfa -d /dev/video16
# added to the /home/mythtv/.fvwm/.fvwm2rc file

the screen comes up purple and green, but switches to proper colors when Mythtv loads.


If you have problems with a black screen once you turn on hardware decoding on the 350 look at this post. Took me a little while because I thought I was smart. Turns out I wasn't as smart as the guy that wrote it, but that really didn't suprise me in the end.

http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=697

Thanks for all the good work in this post everyone!

-Lane

Not sure if this is public knowledge yet or not... along with the ivtvctl -j register patch to fix the Green & Purple screen on the tv-out composite port, there is another register to fix the s-video tv-out port as well.

# for composite tv-out on the pvr-350 use
ivtvctl -j reg=0x6c,val=0xfa -d /dev/video16

# and for s-video tv-out use
ivtvctl -j reg=0x2d,val=0x38 -d /dev/video16

Ah. So that's why my s-video output looked so bad. I don't know if it was common knowledge or not, but I sure needed the info. Much nicer now, thank you!

-Lane

xm301,

Thanks for the great step by step on the pvr-350 tv out.

I kept getting the green and purple static with the ivtv drivers that come with R4V5. Your instructions solved my problem. The Tv-out is working great!

The only thing I had to do different from these steps was to choose:
"options saa7127 enable_output=1 output_select=1"
even though I am using composite out. I saw somewhere else that this is true of newer cards.

Hope this helps others too.

I added at the bottom in /etc/mythtv/modules/ivtv:



The 0x6c key fixed the green/purple for me, but unfortunately the s-video remains black&white after changing that ox2d key