[mythtvnz] configuring hvr-2200 card

[Curtis Walker]

With the switch off only months away, are we really worried about how
well analog does or doesn't work?

(academic interest aside, of course).

On 2 October 2011 14:57, David Moore <dmoo1790 at ihug.co.nz> wrote:
>
> On 01/10/11 23:51, Robin Gilks wrote:
> >
> >> Did you get the blue screen on /dev/video1? I could only get /dev/video0
> >> working. Also don't switch an input between DVB and analogue as I found
> >> this causes some sort of hardware/driver screw-up. So if you want both
> >> DVB and analogue I think you'll need /dev/dvb/frontend1 and /dev/video0
> >> set up and connected.
> >
> > Getting stuff back again.
> >
> > I had to restore last night's database backup after messing about with
> > cards and scanning. The DVB-T section of the HVR-2200 is now working again
> > but its using channel data from my USB tuner - scanning resulted in all
> > channels being 100% signal level and nothing found :(
> >
> > I've re-arranged things so I now have
> > adapter0 = DVB-S
> > adapter1 = DVB-S
> > /dev/video0 = STB
> > adapter3 = DVB-T
> >
> > but analog is still blue (but I get sound so its on the correct input).
> >
> > So weird that it was fine to start with but nowt since. I'll try a reboot
> > later in case its a hardware lockup.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> I think flaky is not too unkind a word to use regarding the analogue
> side. I have finally succeeded in recording an old VHS tape after a few
> attempts. I have my setup like this:
>
> VCR-->composite vid+audio-->DVD Recorder-->s-video+audio-->HVR-2200
>
> Second to last trial failed to accept the signal from the VCR even
> though the port worked with other signals. Had to reboot to recover the
> analogue. After the reboot I started myth recording a "good" signal then
> switched the DVD recorder input to the VCR and all seems good. I suspect
> the SAA7164 MPEG encoder may be a bit fragile.
>
> I got these errors in mythbackend.log when the 2nd last attempt failed:
>
> 2011-10-02 14:22:17.288 DevRdB(/dev/video0) Error: Poll giving up
> 2011-10-02 14:22:17.305 MPEGRec(/dev/video0) Error: Device error detected
> 2011-10-02 14:22:17.315 DevRdB(/dev/video0): Stop(): Not running.
> 2
>
> You'll also see errors like this:
>
> 2011-10-02 14:22:14.700 mpegrecorder.cpp:set_ctrls(): Could not set
> Audio Sampling Frequency to 2
>                         eno: Invalid argument (22)
> 2011-10-02 14:22:14.705 ProgramInfo(): Updated pathname '':'' ->
> '1250_20111002142214.mpg'
> 2011-10-02 14:22:14.716 mpegrecorder.cpp:set_ctrls(): Could not set
> Audio Encoding to 1
>                         eno: Invalid argument (22)
> 2011-10-02 14:22:14.737 mpegrecorder.cpp:set_ctrls(): Could not set
> Audio L2 Bitrate to 13
>                         eno: Invalid argument (22)
> 2011-10-02 14:22:14.743 ProgramInfo(): Updated pathname '':'' ->
> '1250_20111002142214.mpg'
> 2011-10-02 14:22:14.748 MPEGRec(/dev/video0) Warning: Can't enable VBI
> recording (3)
>                         eno: Invalid argument (22)
>
> but they are not fatal.
>
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