[mythtvnz] configuring hvr-2200 card

[David Moore]

On 17/09/11 21:38, Robin Gilks wrote:
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>> On 17/09/11 8:03 PM, "Roger Searle"<roger.searle at gmail.com>  wrote:
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>>> As a firmware/mythtv newbie, sorry I can't provide any clarity on how/if
>>> you might get your analog going.
>>>
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>> It has 2 tuners either both analog OR digital (but not at the same time).
>> If you are not using /dev/dvb/adapterX (digital) you should be able to
>> /dev/videoX for analog the same as other analog devices. In mythtv would
>> you group the 2 digital tuners and 2 analog tuners each in a group so it
>> will not use them both at the same time. (or it will fail)
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>> At the same when I had it the 2200 in mythtv the analog was not going
>> correctly (but I think they have fixed that (maybe) so I tried and gave up
>> (as I didn't need analog TV)
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>> Thanks
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> Well I for one hope the analog works as I just bought one 2 days ago to
> use to capture the svideo output of my Sky box.
>
> When it arrives next week I'll let people know - if it doesn't work on
> that port then I guess I'll be writing drivers (busmans holiday!!)
>
>
I built/installed the entire latest linuxtv media tree to get the 
latest(?) saa7164 driver running on my machine. As expected it needs the 
NXP7164-2010-03-10.1.fw firmware and creates /dev/video and /dev/vbi 
devices as well as /dev/dvb devices. BUT as far as I can tell PAL TV is 
not supported. I tried a few things including mplayer, vlc and a python 
v4l2 library but although I briefly got black and white video with no 
audio (would you expect this with an NTSC tuner synced to a PAL 
signal??) working with vlc everything else indicates only NTSC is 
supported. Mplayer reports only 3 NTSC standards supported. Same with 
the python v4l2 module. Browsing the saa7164 driver source also seems to 
indicate hard coding for NTSC support only. Might be a workaround or a 
patch but I haven't found it yet.