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Author:  strikechief [ Sat Dec 03, 2005 4:33 pm ]
Post subject:  Multiple Capture Cards
Hi all. I'm a long time lurker making my first post. I finally got R5A26 up and limping but I am having a bit of trouble. First my setup:

BACKEND...
P4 Celeron 2.2G
PVR-150 (MCE or non??? I got a grey remote)
ATI TV Wonder
PCHDTV HD3000 HD card
1Gig ram
GeForceFX video card (nvidia)
hda MAXTOR 30gig with all of the normal MYTHTV filesystems loaded and mounted
hdc MAXTOR 320 Gig as an LVM pv
hdd MAXTOR 200 Gig as an LVM pv

FRONTEND...
Modded unnamed Micro$haft machine running XBMC


First, I had no issue with R5A16 with the bttv cards. Then I got bold and bought a PVR-150(yes, i know...bleeding edge but I'm a glutton for punishment) and an HD3000 card and upon reinstalling (not upgrading) to R5A26 got a black screen when xwindows starts. Beat this up for a few days (different OS, Gentoo, Knoppmyth R5V26, Ubuntu,Fedora Core 4,etc) decided to go back to R5A26 as this was the latest to support ivtv and the PVR-150. Just as I was about to give up, (#^%^$!!!) I thought to give the analog output of my video card a try.(One of those 'you're probably over-engineered the problem so just go back and look at the easy stuff you doofus!') YEA!!! Black screen gone...all is F, D, and happy! strikechief will have aPVR for sure now!. OK. I said I have three capture cards, a PVR-150, a WINTV card and the HDTV card. The only card I see when I do a dmesg is the HDTV card. Hooked it up to an antenna and yes,I can tune stations. Here's my issue:

1. I want to use the Hauppauge PVR-150 as my default capture card. (hardware encoding)
2. I want to use the WINTV-PVR card as the backup to the default.
3. I want to use the HD3000 card to capture the few broadcast HD streams we have here in my area.

Right now, the only card I can use is the HD3000 card. tvtime lets me scan for channels and I can watch this card in MYTHTV. I want the PVR-150 to be the default in MYTHTV.

If I need to send logfiles or anything like that please drop me a line. I'm not linux (*nix) ignorant but I'm definately not known as a guru. Thanks in advance.
Strikechief
strikechief(aatt)yahoo.com

(You know what to do with the (aatt)
Author:  strikechief [ Sun Dec 04, 2005 2:33 pm ]
Post subject:  Update to Multiple Capture Cards post
Alright, here's an update. I pulled the HD3000 card from my box. Right now it just has the PVR-150 and the TV-Wonder. I'm currently running R5A26 and can use the TV-Wonder in Mythtv. I thought that there may have been an issue with ivtv so I installed it again. (Yes I know it's in R5A26 but I was pulling my hair out. tvtime --device=/dev/video0 works like a charm. tvtime --device=/dev/video1 returns couldn't open device. I then had a thought that maybe they didn't (or couldn't) ship the firmware for the card. Tore the house up looking for the CD then found the firmware and associated files online. Updated, still no joy. My latest dmesg is posted below.

Linux video capture interface: v1.00
bttv: driver version 0.9.16 loaded
bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture
bt878: AUDIO driver version 0.0.0 loaded
saa7146: register extension 'dvb'.
saa7146: register extension 'budget dvb'.
saa7146: register extension 'budget_ci dvb'.
saa7146: register extension 'budget_av'.
usbcore: registered new driver ttusb
usbcore: registered new driver ttusb-dec
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c04d8ba0(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
ttyS1: LSR safety check engaged!
ttyS1: LSR safety check engaged!
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda4, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
Warning: /proc/ide/hd?/settings interface is obsolete, and will be removed soon
lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, at major 61
ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV ====================
ivtv: version 0.4.0 (tagged release) loading
ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.13.2-chw-3 SMP preempt 586 gcc-3.3
ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info
ivtv: between the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines when
ivtv: mailing the ivtv-devel mailinglist.
ivtv: ==================== END INIT IVTV ====================
cx2388x v4l2 driver version 0.0.5 loaded
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0b.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 7 (level, low) -> IRQ
7
cx88[0]: subsystem: 1002:00f8, board: ATI TV Wonder Pro [card=4,autodetected]
TV tuner 44 at 0x1fe, Radio tuner -1 at 0x1fe
cx88[0]/0: found at 0000:00:0b.0, rev: 5, irq: 7, latency: 32, mmio: 0xe2000000
tuner (ivtv): chip found at addr 0xc0 i2c-bus cx88[0]
All bytes are equal. It is not a TEA5767
tuner: type set to 44 (Philips 4 in 1 (ATI TV Wonder Pro/Conexant)) by cx88[0]
tda9885/6/7: (ivtv) chip found @ 0x86
cx88[0]/0: registered device video0 [v4l2]
cx88[0]/0: registered device vbi0
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
Author:  cesman [ Sun Dec 04, 2005 4:00 pm ]
Post subject: 
The first card defined will be the first card used, so define the 150 first in mythtv-setup.
Author:  strikechief [ Mon Dec 05, 2005 5:16 pm ]
Post subject:  PVR-150 not loading
Yeah,I got that but if you look at the output from dmesg you'llsee that although the ivtv module is loading, the card's firmware never loads so it never gets assigned to /dev/video1. I'm going to look further into why the firmware doesn't load but I'd appreciate any recommendations you may have. Thanks for the reply anyway.
Author:  tjc [ Mon Dec 05, 2005 7:11 pm ]
Post subject: 
Have you checked the obvious like the files containing the firmware exisiting and having the right permissons?
Author:  nickread [ Mon Dec 05, 2005 7:27 pm ]
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Looks to me like ivtv isn't seeing the card at all, or there would be a lot more between Start and End Init IVTV lines. Have you tried reseating the card and/or a different PCI slot? Maybe try with only the 150 in the machine? Just guessing..
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