[mythtvnz] IVTV problems

[Robert Fisher]

On Tue, 06 Dec 2005 7:37 pm, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Dec 2005 19:04:55 +1300
>
> Wade Maxfield <mythtvnz@hotblack.co.nz> wrote:
> > >On Tue, 06 Dec 2005 3:25 pm, criggie@criggie.dyndns.org wrote:
> > >>  Your next mission will be firmware loading :)
> > >
> > >Would you care to elaborate Craig?
> > >
> > >We are having problems (mental blocks perhaps) tuning the card now.
> > >
> > >We have managed to capture the input from Sky using the component input
> > >
> > >ivtvctl -n
> > >
> > >mythtv ~ # ivtvctl --set-input=2
> > >ioctl VIDIOC_S_INPUT ok
> > >Video input set to 2
> > >
> > >but using the tuner input we do not know how to tune it.
> > >
> > >Is there a howto for NZ? (which we can understand / follow)
> >
> > So are you stuck at how to test the tuner with Free-To-Air channels?
> > Or how to get sky via the tuner?
> >
> > The only way I know to get sky via the tuner is to set the capture
> > card channel to 38 (or whatever channel you've set your sky decoder
> > to use - it's in the advanced preferences of the sky decoder from
> > memory.) I believe 38 is what quite a few of the sky installers use
> > by default.
> >
> > If it's FTA TV then you can use ptune-ui.pl to play round with.  Just
> > find ptune-ui.pl (might be /usr/lib/ivtv/ )
> > then
> >
> > ./ptune-ui.pl &
> >   mplayer -vo xv /dev/video0
> >
> > Just don't change channels to quickly, as depending on your hardware
> > there may be a noticable delay between changing the tuner, and then
> > seeing it in mplayer
> >
> > http://zaf.geek.nz/projects/mythtv/channels.php
> > has a list of channel ids if you need them.
> >
> > The channels ids then get used in mythtv-setup, but you should be
> > able to suss that out at the right time.
> >
> >   - Wade
>
> A couple of things Robert.
>
> 1. did you use the ivtv from portage or did you just download and hand
> compile the driver? I did the latter as the ivtv ebuilds were very
> flaky at the time - around April this year IIRC.
> http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Download
>
> 2. ivtv is a fast moving target. My version is 0.3.6r. I haven't
> bothered to update it as it just works.
>
> Current stable is 0.4.0, unstable is 0.5.0.
> http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Download . By contrast the ebuilds
> available are:
>
> * media-tv/ivtv
>      Available versions:  ~0.2.0_rc3-r4 ~0.2.0_rc3-r5 ~0.3.8
>
> 3. there are ebuilds for the perl based tuning tools:
>
> * dev-perl/Video-ivtv
>      Available versions:  ~0.12 ~0.13
>      Installed:           none
>      Homepage:            http://ivtv.sourceforge.net
>      Description:         Video::ivtv perl module, for use with
> ivtv-ptune
>
> * media-tv/ivtv-ptune
>      Available versions:  ~0.2.0_rc3
>      Installed:           none
>      Homepage:            http://ivtv.sourceforge.net
>      Description:         ivtv tuner perl scripts
>
> Whether these are up to date i do not have a clue.
>
mythtv ~ # emerge -s ivtv
Searching...
[ Results for search key : ivtv ]
[ Applications found : 3 ]

*  dev-perl/Video-ivtv
      Latest version available: 0.13
      Latest version installed: 0.13
      Size of downloaded files: 20 kB
      Homepage:    http://ivtv.sourceforge.net
      Description: Video::ivtv perl module, for use with ivtv-ptune
      License:     GPL-2

*  media-tv/ivtv
      Latest version available: 0.4.0-r2
      Latest version installed: 0.4.0-r2
      Size of downloaded files: 1,319 kB
      Homepage:    http://www.ivtvdriver.org
      Description: ivtv driver for Hauppauge PVR PCI cards
      License:     GPL-2

*  media-tv/ivtv-ptune
      Latest version available: 0.2.0_rc3
      Latest version installed: 0.2.0_rc3
      Size of downloaded files: 503 kB
      Homepage:    http://ivtv.sourceforge.net
      Description: ivtv tuner perl scripts
      License:     GPL-2

-- 
Regards, Robert

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