[mythtvnz] configuring hvr-2200 card

[Robin Gilks]

> On 01/10/11 00:35, Robin Gilks wrote:
>> Me again!!
>>
>>
>>> Then I manually patched the saa7164 source using this info:
>>>
>>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.video-input-infrastructure/26212/focus=26524
>>>
>>
>>
>> I'm OK up to this point and then the referred page talks of
>> saa7164-cards.c and saa7164-encoder.c, both of which appear to be more
>> up-to-date in the git clone git://linuxtv.org/media_build.git sources
>> than
>> the ones at
>> http://git.linuxtv.org/media_tree.git?a=tree;f=drivers/media/video/saa7164;h=0acaa4ada45ae6881bfbb19447ae9db43f06ef9b;hb=staging/for_v2.6.37-rc1
>>
> Yes, I think you're right. I hadn't noticed this but I do have the
> latest version. I know this because I get nagged at boot about how I'm
> using dangerous, non-production, experimental drivers. :-)
>
> I have been browsing the source a fair bit and playing with v4l2-ctl to
> see what can be changed. It seems there is a lot unfinished wrt v4l2
> controls. Some functions even seem to do nothing and/or return zero
> regardless of inputs.
>
> One thing I was kind of hoping to tweak was encoder resolution. It seems
> to be stuck on 720x576 and I can't see a way to change this. The major
> problem is no info on how to control the hardware or even what it is
> capable of doing. Seems like Hauppauge keep this info locked up tight.
> Bah! Closed IP about hardware is a perennial problem for Linux. :-(

Well I made lots of progress this morning but its been downhill since
lunchtime :(

I found the patch further down the thread you referenced and like you
manually applied it (since it was out of sync by over 100 lines in
places), recompiled and loading it and it all sprang to life. Tuner,
svideo, DVB-T - all working great.

So I shut down, removed the flakey pvr150 and since then have a blue
screen on the analog side and can't get the dvb-t to work at all.

Looks like I'm stuck with Freeview on DVB-S until I put the pvr150 back
into the box.... gggggrrrrrrrrrr


-- 
Robin Gilks