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Date:      Mon, 21 Feb 2005 23:21:36 -0600
From:      Lane <lane@joeandlane.com>
To:        freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   PVR250 ... mythtv ... freevo ... /dev/cxm0 ...
Message-ID:  <200502212321.37270.lane@joeandlane.com>
In-Reply-To: <mailman.0.1109048728.52612.freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org>
References:  <mailman.0.1109048728.52612.freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org>

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Hi, list!

I just got my PVR250 and I've been able to get it working with 
the /usr/ports/multimedia/pvr250 port, using `mplayer /dev/cxm0 `

Yippee!

I've also complied and given up on mythtv ... it compiles fine, but I get this 
error about V4L not working in this OS.  Someone mentioned a patch to get 
Video4Linux working on FreeBSD, but I'm weary from trying to find it :)

Next I moved to /usr/ports/multimedia/freevo, and I'm pretty excited about 
that ... except for the fact that freevo doesn't seem to provide the facility 
to just watch a channel.

I think for my needs `mplayer /dev/cxm0` works fine, except I can't change 
channels.  When I try `pvr250-setchannel <newchannel>` I get 'Device busy' if 
mplayer is running.  How can I get pvr250-setchannel to work while mplayer 
has /dev/cxm0 locked?  Maybe a shell that interoperates between 
pvr250-setchannel and some player?

But ... if anyone knows how to get freevo to view an arbitrary channel, that'd 
be cool, too.

Thanks,

lane



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