I have not had a chance to do any more work on the latest script.

What I can say is that I have no idea how it will behave with multiple PVR cards.

My recommendation, if you have more than 1 PVR card, is to start with only one installed initially, have a run at the script to see if it works for you, and if so, then install the second PVR card.

If I had access to multiple PVR cards I would probably try to put in some checks for this, but at the moment, I can't.

Lane, SnapperDragon and anybody that can help.

I tried adding those lines but I still got the Purple and Green Screen. I have decided to start from scratch.

I have TV on my monitor working, I have not run the script yet because once I run it , I get the green screen on TVOUT and the tv on monitor does not work.I have been trying all of the suggestions from the following post [http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2995&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0l]

My ivtv file is below

alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
options ivtv debug=1
options tuner type=39
options msp3400 once=1 simple=1
install ivtv /sbin/modprobe tuner; /sbin/modprobe msp3400; /sbin/modprobe saa2115; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ivtv
remove ivtv /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove ivtv && /sbin/modprobe -r saa7115 && /sbin/modprobe -r msp3400 && /sbin/probe -r tuner

Is there anything I can do before running the script that can help fix the Purple and Green Screen? I have installed R5A12 about 10 times trying to get things working correctly but I just can't get past the Purple and Green TV-Out.

Thanks

Max

The script doesn't do anything to fix the green and purple problem from what I can tell. Your best bet is probally to run the script and then try to fix the green and purple thing afterwords.

I was stuck for a while until I ran the ivtvctl commands from a ssh on another computer. This worked and I then knew my problem was with where the command was executed.

What version of ivtv are you using, I try to stick to the 0.2 versions.

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I don't know what version of ivtv I have. How do I find that out?

Max

Restart the box, get a shell and then:


Should be near the top.

-brendan

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* pvr.pl with R5A15 *
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Yesterday, I installed R5A15 on my computer. I discovered that the script (pvr.pl) was distributed in this version. Here is what I have done :

root@pvr:~#cd /root
root@pvr:~#perl /usr/local/bin/pvr.pl -i

KnoppMythVersion detected=R5 Alpha 15
Backup directory /root/pvr350util exists...kipping file backup
insmod : can't read 'ivtv-fb' : no such file or directory
sorry, i could not find the /etcX11/XF86Config-4.pvr350-tvout.sample file that need to construct the XF86Config-4.file
Exiting

Anyone know what i'm doing wrong ?
I just installed R5A15 and CTRL-ALT-F1 to exit at the command line
log with root and execute script.

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* pvr.pl with R5A12 *
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Today, I decided to install R5A12 and execute pvr.pl in the root. The script ran with no error but when I reboot, my computer freeze in the boot with cascading text and my TV displays green/grey bars.

My pvr-350 is connected in input with a cable (coaxial)
and in output with S-VIDEO cable.

Anyone what should I do to resolve this problem ?

I am having the same problem as greenstalk.

R5A12 pvr 350
mythversion 0.17.20050130-1
Television signal received via S-video in. TV-out via (Yellow,White,Red) cables

Install runs OK
(TV is bright green)
Specify new capture card (pvr 250 / 350)
Create Video source
Configure Input so s-video uses video source
After front-end starts modify player so it uses pvr350 encoder /dev/video16 s-video0

Establish ssh connection from separate box as root
From ssh I backup all the files the script will modify

As root in /root I perform the following acts with little to no experience:

#wget http://dc1.snapperworld.net/files/mythtv/pvr.pl
#perl pvr.pl -i
(tv turns from green to grey-black bars)
#rmmod saa7127
(tv turns black)
#modprobe saa7127 test_image=1
(color bars appear on tv)
#rmmod saa7127
(tv goes black)
#modprobe saa7127
(tv turns from green to grey-black bars)
#cd /etc/mythtv/modules
#rmmod tveeprom
#modprobe tveeprom
#dmesg
(shows tuner type value as 47)
#nano ivtv (modify tuner type to 47 and change debug to 0)
#nano /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (modify the resolution to 640x480 in
monitor and screen sections)
#ivtvctl -j reg=0x6c,val=0xfa -d /dev/video16
(screen changes to have grey green lines)
I switch back to the myth console and select "watch tv"
(monitor goes black, TV turns on and video is there looking great !!!
I don't have sound and my remote doesn't work.
If I hit esc the tv goes black and the monitor turns back on displaying the myth frontend.

(I try to stop and start gdm via ssh IT stops ok but restart makes the machine totally un-responsive and I have to hard-reboot) can't connect other ssh sessions

Upon reboot I receive the following (TV displays green/grey bars)
Monitor spits out cascading text as follows;
ivtv registerd v412 device, streamtype 7 minor 232
ivtv:create DMA stream 8
ivtv:Registered v412 device, streamtype 8 minor 48
ivtv:setting Tuner 47
ivtv:setting audio matrox to input3 output 1
ivtv:switching standard to NTSC
ivtv:ivtv_enc_thread:pid=2183,itv=0xd0c04920
Saa7115:decoder set norm NTSC
Saa7115:set audio:0x01
Saa7127:Setting encoder Video Standard
saa7127:Set NTSC Video Mode
saa7127:Selecting NTSC Video Standard
ivtv:Initialized Wintv pvr 350,card#0
======End Init IVTV =====
ivtv-osd:Framebuffer module loaded (attached to ivtv card id0
ivtv-osd:Framebuffer is at decoder-relative address 0x00510000 and has 1704960 bytes
ivtv-osd:screen coords:[0 0] -> [720 480]
ivtv-osd:original global alpha = 208
ivtv-osd:new global alpha = 2 08 (1 255 0)
ivtv-osd:framebuffer

How do I get this fixed? Any help is greatly appreciated as my wife is starting to get annoyed with the amount of time this is taking

Yep, trying to get this going too running 15.1

I'm curious about some of the errors which come up while running snapperdragon's script. I'm getting:


Which should I choose?

Selecting yes or no yields the same result. Upon reboot X will not start and I'm getting the 'no screens found'. The TV is plugged into the s-video out of my PVR-350 and displays the zig zag banding others are reporting. During boot up I am getting lots of ivtv errors:


And here is a copy of ivtv


lspci:


XFree86-4:


Have I missed something? TIA

Your error message come from your ivtv

try :



Please, tell me if you find a solution with pvr.pl on R5A15, R5A15.1

Hi aspain~

thanks for the ivtv file, it does not produce any of the errors anymore with that code.

I'm still getting the 'no screens' error- X doesn't load.

I have a question about the perl script, when I perl pvr.pl -d I'm getting:


Notice the Tuner type is empty, the Busid is not the same as lspci and the error 'can't read 'ivtv-fb' is also suggesting some problems.

Not sure what I should do about this. thanks again

pvr.pl is distributed in R5A15 &+ but he is designed for R4V5 and R5A12.

try that : http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic. ... a15+pvr350

Finally got it.

XF86Config-4:

The ivtv file you provided works great!

Now I've just got to figure out the overscan problem. The picture is about 10% to the left. My TV does it with everything, I think it got dropped on it's side or something.

Unfortunately, the new version of knoppmyth and ivtv drivers don't seem to wrok the same way when I query them, so I get garbage in for the "fb*" value. Basically, it borks the ivtv and XF86Config-4 files. The check for the Knoppmyth version should have caused the program to abort, but it did not. That part is my fault.

I've got the opportunity to fix this right now as I was able to unplug my box from the tv and work on this. The only problem is that as of right now, I have not got it to work yet, so without knowing exactly what needs to be in the files, I can't code it up. Hoping that after a bit more messing around I can get it straight and upgrade the script.

Much Obliged Snap!

I've had the mythbox out in the living room for a couple of months now. Once I got the lircrc file ironed out, everything works flawlessly. I haven't SSH'd in for a few weeks- Thanks for the help!

Hi,

Has anyone had any luck getting this to work on R5A16 using PAL UK?

I read that R5A16 was 'close' but didn't see anything about PAL UK compatibility.


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VIA EPIA MII, PVR-350, Knoppmyth R5A16