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PostPosted: Tue May 17, 2005 4:34 am 
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In the hope this will prove useful to anyone trying to get EPIA MII and PVR-350 going, here is what I did...

- there are two copies of tveeprom.ko and tuner.ko - one in v4l and one in ivtv. To find them do
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find /lib/modules/`uname -r` -name tuner.ko -print
(ditto for tveeprom). We should only be using the ivtv versions, so rename the v4l ones to something like 'tuner.ko.old'. Then do a
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depmod -a


- changed settings in /etc/sysconfig/ivtv/cfg-0
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IVTV_TUNER='4'    #this is PVR-350 specific
IVTV_TYPE='PAL'


- settings in /etc/mythtv/modules/ivtv
Code:
    options ivtv tda9887=0 tuner=38 ivtv_std=2 cardtype=2

tuner type - get it from /var/log/messages, grep for tveeprom
do a modinfo ivtv to see what ivtv_std and cardtype you should use

- added scripts to retrieve tv data from multiple sources (NZ only – sources are unreliable and incomplete).

- path needed to be create: MTD points to /var/lib/mythdvd/temp for temporary files, which does not exist. To fix, just mkdir.

- Use “xterm -e xine -pfhq -V xxmc %” for playback.
--- need xterm due to bug in xine losing focus on quit.
--- need -V xxmc to enable xvmc support in xine
--- want xine because I want DVD menus

- install-i586-lx points to debs that are not there. In fact, the xvmc stuff is active (grep -i xvmc /var/log/XFree86.0.log). You just need to tell xine (-V xxmv) and mythtv (option in tv playback) to use xvmc. Note: use VLD extensions.

What I have yet to do, and what doesn't work:

- add detection of power button to shutdown. Out of the box, there is no way to shut the machine down cleanly except via keyboard or SSH.

- add irexw for restart front end using the power button of the remote. This is the wife friendly button.

- font sizes are very small by default.

- Burning dvds fail – could it be -/+ conflict? I have a +/- drive and I put in a + media. The ISO is created, and I copied it to a windoze machine to burn to DVD. Worked just fine.

- Burn mpeg4 does nothing
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PostPosted: Wed May 25, 2005 8:44 pm 
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Out of the box, there is no way to shut the machine down cleanly except via keyboard or SSH.

Are you using Knoppmyth? go to the knoppmyth menu option (its next to Utilities/Setup on my box) and you will see two sub menus - halt and reboot...


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PostPosted: Thu May 26, 2005 1:09 am 
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Does your PC actually power off when you do this? Mine used to when I ran windows but the linux shutdown doesnt seem to cut the power? Do I need to enable something so that it does?


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PostPosted: Thu May 26, 2005 4:19 am 
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What I meant was that the power button (which worked when I used Fedora) is ignored. I haven't figured out how to capture that with APM/ACPI and initiate a clean shutdown.

You are right though - just using the menu is a reasonable alternative.

Cheers.


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 Post subject: Giving up on MythTV
PostPosted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 4:20 pm 
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Tuatara,

I have the same hardware combination as you, EPIA MII 12000, PVR350 and I have tried everything to get R5A26 to run with the TV out on the PVR350. Nothing has worked, i get IVTVDEV_TST(0) errors in the XF86log.

Have you managed to get any TV out working or do you view using a monitor?

After spending 5 weeks on this, I am about to give up!

Regards,

Algenon.


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