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msfox99 · **Posted:** Fri Aug 05, 2005 6:37 pm

My setup: PVR-250, FX5200, R5A16.

I am trying to get live tv working with a monitor before I switch to a real tv set.

When I start live tv, I get blank screen (searched here but haven't been able to solve yet). I did a CNTRL-ALT-F1 and see the following lines repeatedly scrolling:

decoder enable output
decoder disable output
set picture bright=xxx yada yda

Does any know what these lines repeating mean? As far as I can tell I have the tuner set up properly, but I am not sure.

I followed the steps in this thread:
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3827

grep -i "Tuner Type" /var/log/messages

Code:

Aug  5 13:40:47 mythtv kernel: ivtv: Tuner Type 0, Tuner formats 0x00001000, Rad                             io: yes, Model 0x008d1659, Revision 0x00000001
Aug  5 13:45:20 mythtv kernel: ivtv: Tuner Type 0, Tuner formats 0x00001000, Rad                             io: yes, Model 0x008d1659, Revision 0x00000001
Aug  5 13:54:48 mythtv kernel: ivtv: Tuner Type 0, Tuner formats 0x00001000, Rad                             io: yes, Model 0x008d1659, Revision 0x00000001
Aug  5 14:02:56 mythtv kernel: ivtv: Tuner Type 0, Tuner formats 0x00001000, Rad                             io: yes, Model 0x008d1659, Revision 0x00000001
Aug  5 14:06:39 mythtv kernel: ivtv: Tuner Type 0, Tuner formats 0x00001000, Rad                             io: yes, Model 0x008d1659, Revision 0x0000000

I entered 0 for options tuner type=0 in
/etc/mythtv/modules/ivtv.

Here is some of my messages log file which I think indicates that the card is being recognized:

Code:

Aug  5 14:06:39 mythtv kernel: ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02040011
Aug  5 14:06:39 mythtv kernel: ivtv: Configuring WinTV PVR 250 card with 5 streams
Aug  5 14:06:39 mythtv kernel: ivtv: Create DMA stream 0 using 256 16384 byte buffers  4194304 kbytes total
Aug  5 14:06:39 mythtv kernel: ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 0 minor 0
Aug  5 14:06:39 mythtv kernel: ivtv: Create DMA stream 1
Aug  5 14:06:39 mythtv kernel: ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 1 minor 32
Aug  5 14:06:39 mythtv kernel: ivtv: Create stream 2 using 40 52224 byte buffers  2097152 kbytes total
Aug  5 14:06:39 mythtv kernel: ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 2 minor 224
Aug  5 14:06:39 mythtv kernel: ivtv: Create DMA stream 3 using 455 4608 byte buffers  2097152 kbytes total
Aug  5 14:06:39 mythtv kernel: ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 3 minor 24
Aug  5 14:06:39 mythtv kernel: ivtv: Create stream 4
Aug  5 14:06:39 mythtv kernel: ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, streamtype 4 minor 64
Aug  5 14:06:39 mythtv kernel: ivtv: Setting Tuner 0
Aug  5 14:06:39 mythtv kernel: ivtv: Setting audio matrix to input 3, output 1
Aug  5 14:06:39 mythtv kernel: ivtv: Switching standard to NTSC.
Aug  5 14:06:39 mythtv kernel: ivtv: ivtv_enc_thread: pid = 1796, itv = 0xf9158aa0
Aug  5 14:06:39 mythtv kernel: ivtv: Initialized WinTV PVR 250, card #0
Aug  5 14:06:39 mythtv kernel: ivtv: ====================  END INIT IVTV  ====================
Aug  5 14:06:43 mythtv kernel: ivtv: Setting audio matrix to input 1, output 1
Aug  5 14:06:45 mythtv kernel: ivtv: Setting audio matrix to input 3, output 1

I see these errors in mythbackend.log:

Code:

2005-08-05 15:52:54.157 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2005-08-05 15:52:54.158 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)
2005-08-05 15:52:54.166 adding: mythtv as a remote ringbuffer
2005-08-05 15:52:54.176 Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
2005-08-05 15:52:54.187 Unknown video codec
2005-08-05 15:52:54.189 Please go into the TV Settings, Recording Profiles and
2005-08-05 15:52:54.190 setup the four 'Software Encoders' profiles.
2005-08-05 15:52:54.191 Assuming RTjpeg for now.
2005-08-05 15:52:54.192 NVR: Error, unknown audio codec
2005-08-05 15:52:54.209 NVR: Won't work with the streaming interface, falling back
2005-08-05 15:52:54.913 TVRec: Recording Prematurely Stopped
2005-08-05 15:52:56.227 MainServer::HandleAnnounce Playback
2005-08-05 15:52:56.231 adding: mythtv as a client (events: 0)

I went to the profiles setup and I don't know if I have it set up correctlty.

One of the things that is confusing to me is that some of the posts with problems with the PVR-250 are quite old, and I think the newer versions of KnoppMyth have better support for it, so I don't know if I need to go through the steps such as downloading the latest ivtv and recompiling it.

Any help will be most appreciated.

Thanks,

Mike

Help with configuration for PVR-250

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