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Old 01-21-2009, 06:14 PM   #1
jazpaisley
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IVTV and Video4Linux problems


I'm running Kubuntu Intrepid 8.10 with kde-4.1.96 kernal-2.6.27-9

at first look it's good, but when I run KMPlayer, Tvtime I have no picture or invalid argument. The tuner has three (3)types of inputs, tuner, S-Video and Composite

Q: Is there something else I need to do?
Q: With KMPlayer see the card, how can I switch inputs?

IVTV
Code:
xxxx@linux-007:~$ dmesg | grep ivtv
[   15.117895] ivtv:  Start initialization, version 1.4.0
[   15.494683] ivtv0: Initializing card #0
[   15.494695] ivtv0: Autodetected ASUS Falcon2 card (cx23416 based)
[   15.494830] ivtv 0000:02:02.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
[   15.494844] ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)
[   15.700518] cx25840 0-0044: cx25843-24 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
[   15.869859] tuner 0-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
[   16.140094] tuner 0-0060: chip found @ 0xc0 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
[   16.140186] m52790 0-0048: chip found @ 0x90 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
[   20.594605] ivtv0: Registered device video0 for encoder MPG (4096 kB)
[   20.594830] ivtv0: Registered device video32 for encoder YUV (2048 kB)
[   20.595048] ivtv0: Registered device vbi0 for encoder VBI (1024 kB)
[   20.595260] ivtv0: Registered device video24 for encoder PCM (320 kB)
[   20.595474] ivtv0: Registered device radio0 for encoder radio
[   20.595478] ivtv0: Initialized card #0: ASUS Falcon2
[   20.597415] ivtv:  End initialization
[   32.474080] ivtv0: Loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (376836 bytes)
[   32.672135] ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02060039
KMPlayer "console" error

Code:
callback is kmplayer-6748 KMPlayerCallback-0
media.video4linux.video_device=/dev/vbi0
trying video driver xv ..
trying audio driver alsa ..
play mrl: 'v4l:/S-Video%201'
Unable to open mrl 'v4l:/S-Video%201'
play mrl: 'v4l:/S-Video%201'3
stop
event_finished
event_listener 7
request quit
closing display
done
I tried dvb-utils installed it and got this result

Code:
callback is kmplayer-7071 KMPlayerCallback-0
media.video4linux.video_device=/dev/vbi0
trying video driver xv ..
trying audio driver alsa ..
play mrl: 'v4l:/Composite%201'
Unable to open mrl 'v4l:/Composite%201'
play mrl: 'v4l:/Composite%201'
stop
event_finished
event_listener 7
request quit
closing display
done
So that solved the changing TV tuner switching input problem on KMPlayer kinda-sorta, still I have no Video.
but trillobyte Post on recording VHS tapes works just fine it recorded with no problems thanks to trillobyte

Quote:
"Originally Posted by trillobyte View Post
How to convert VHS tapes to mpeg2 using a PVR-150 card.

Set your card to channel 3. On a terminal, type the command: ivtv-tune --channel=3

Put your tape in the VCR and press play.

To capture some video, on a terminal type the command:
cat /dev/vide0 > my.mpg
press ctrl-c to stop.

Open another terminal and type the command:
mplayer my.mpg
This will check the status of the video while it's being captured. This is how I know when the tape has ended and so forth.

Best regards"
I if I use zapping tv viewer I was able to view video from /dev/video0, but with two problems (1) seven green horizonal bars across the whole screen and (2) no sound

Last edited by jazpaisley; 01-25-2009 at 04:10 PM. Reason: Update findings
 
  


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