WINTV PVR150 invalid argument

bpman · 05-26-2005, 10:51 PM

I think I am really close to getting my capture card to work, after many moons of trying...
when I try to run xawtv i get:
This is xawtv-3.93, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.11-1.27_FC3)
Cannot open plugin directory /usr/lib/libquicktime
Did you forget "make install"? You need it because
libquicktime cannot load plugins out of the sourcetree
/dev/video0 [v4l2]: no overlay support
v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYMENU(id=134217728;index=1;name="44.1 kHz";reserved=4294967280): Invalid argument
ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYMENU(id=134217729;index=1;name="Layer 1";reserved=4294967280): Invalid argument
ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYMENU(id=134217730;index=1;name="[L1/L2] Free fmt";reserved=4294967280): Invalid argument
ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYMENU(id=134217731;index=1;name="Stereo";reserved=4294967280): Invalid argument
ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYMENU(id=134217732;index=1;name="Subbands 4-31/bound=4";reserved=4294967280): Invalid argument
ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYMENU(id=134217733;index=1;name="None";reserved=4294967280): Invalid argument
ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYMENU(id=134217734;index=1;name="CRC off";reserved=4294967280): Invalid argument
ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYMENU(id=134217735;index=1;name="Copyright off";reserved=4294967280): Invalid argument
ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYMENU(id=134217736;index=1;name="Copy";reserved=4294967280): Invalid argument
Segmentation fault

and when i run tvtime i get:
Running tvtime 0.9.15.
Reading configuration from /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml
Reading configuration from /root/.tvtime/tvtime.xml
videoinput: Card failed to allocate capture buffers: Invalid argument

and when i run ivtvctl -I i get:
check SAA7115 input signal
ioctl: VIDEO_STATUS = Bad

SAA7115 reg[STATUS#1 - 0x1E] = 00
Color Standard (D0-D1): BW/No color
White peak loop (D2): Not activated
Gain value for act.lum. (min) (D3): Not limited
Gain value for act.lum. (max) (D4): Not limited
WIPA-mode slow-time constant (D5): Not activated
Horizontal frequency (D6): Locked
Field length (D7): Non-standard

SAA7115 reg[STATUS#2 - 0x1F] = 00
Ready for capture (D0): No
Macrovision 7.01 (D1): No
MV Colorstripe burst (D2): No
MV Colorstripe burst type 3 (D3): No
Input signal timebase (D4): Non-stable (VCR)
Field frequency (D5): 50Hz
H & V loops (D6): Locked
Interlace (D7): Not detected

lspci :00:00.0 Host bridge: ALi Corporation M1647 Northbridge [MAGiK 1 / MobileMAGiK 1] (rev 04)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ALi Corporation PCI to AGP Controller
00:04.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c4)
00:06.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV]
00:08.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Audigy LS
00:0a.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
00:11.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU]
00:14.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV20 [GeForce3 Ti 200] (rev a3)

lsmod:
ivtv 820708 0
wm8775 8860 0
tuner 24880 0
cx25840 121260 0
videodev 9665 1 ivtv
tveeprom 11800 0
i2c_algo_bit 9033 1 ivtv
parport_pc 28421 1
lp 12489 0
parport 40201 2 parport_pc,lp
autofs4 26181 0
sunrpc 164485 1
ipt_REJECT 7105 1
ipt_state 1857 1
ip_conntrack 40601 1 ipt_state
iptable_filter 2881 1
ip_tables 19777 3 ipt_REJECT,ipt_state,iptable_filter
md5 4161 1
ipv6 259201 8
ohci_hcd 25685 0
i2c_ali15x3 7493 0
i2c_core 21953 6 wm8775,tuner,cx25840,tveeprom,i2c_algo_bit,i2c_ali15x3
snd_ca0106 30181 3
snd_ac97_codec 71097 1 snd_ca0106
snd_pcm_oss 51953 0
snd_mixer_oss 18241 2 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 99657 3 snd_ca0106,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 33093 1 snd_pcm
snd 56741 10 snd_ca0106,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 10785 2 snd
snd_page_alloc 9669 2 snd_ca0106,snd_pcm
8139too 29505 0
mii 4929 1 8139too
floppy 64753 0
dm_snapshot 17669 0
dm_zero 2497 0
dm_mirror 25773 0
ext3 131145 2
jbd 82777 1 ext3
dm_mod 59221 6 dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror

does anyown have anything i can try...i am at a dead end...
thanks

DMBGO · 06-28-2005, 11:13 PM

You have exactly the same symptoms and card etc as me. I also feel that I am nearly there. I am still trying and will let you know if I find a solution.

DMBGO · 06-28-2005, 11:15 PM

One other thing I didn't mention, I don't know if you are using MYTHTV, but it thinks I have a PVR 350 card with dual tuners??
I don't know why this is yet, but it may be related.

surfsune · 11-01-2005, 02:22 PM

Have the same problem with my WINTV PVR 150 card.
Running Ubuntu 5.10

mrchaos · 08-08-2006, 10:23 AM

does anyone know where this problem stems from:

Quote:

videoinput: Card failed to allocate capture buffers: Invalid argument

I have the same problem when using TVtime... and in fact, no program that utilizes the V4L drivers to power my Hauppauge Wintv pvr-250 work. Mythtv works fine, but as I understand, Myth is optimized for the ivtv drivers.

oh, and

Code:

ivtvctl -I

lands me the following:

Code:

check SAA7115 input signal
ioctl: Input detect failed (cannot read SAA regs)
ioctl: Input detect failed (cannot read SAA regs)

BruceCadieux · 08-08-2006, 03:39 PM

Hauppauga PVR cards will not work with xawtv, or any of the other bttv based television applications.

You can test the card with mplayer /dev/video

But you will need an application like MythTV or Freevo to watch television.

mrchaos · 08-08-2006, 04:11 PM

precisely what I was afraid of...
Even so,

Code:

mplayer /dev/video0

causes mplayer to crash. I'll recompile mplayer from svn repos and see if it will work. Thanks for the response!