Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:40:47 -0500 From: User Mat <mathew.kanner@gmail.com> To: Danny Pansters <danny@ricin.com> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org, User Mat <mathew.kanner@gmail.com> Subject: Re: PVR-150 on 6-STABLE: success and mini HOWTO Message-ID: <20071220164047.GD52400@tube5.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <200712200324.13345.danny@ricin.com> References: <200712191659.28032.danny@ricin.com> <20071219230002.GC52400@tube5.mine.nu> <200712200324.13345.danny@ricin.com>
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On Dec 19, Danny Pansters wrote:
> On Thursday 20 December 2007 00:00:02 you wrote:
> > On Dec 19, Danny Pansters wrote:
> > > I just completed setting up my brand new Hauppauge PVR-150 (MCE I think)
> > > on 6.2-STABLE using the newish port from usleep. All this info can be
> > > found, but it is scattered, so I thought it might be useful to put
> > > together a short step by step guide:
> >
> > (I'm becoming active again).
> >
> > It also works on 7 and 8 with the attached patch. Tuning works
> > best by frequency. Once I choose s-video or composite input, I
> > can't switch back to the tuner.
>
> I get that too (reload of kernel module needed), and using -m panics the
> kernel.
I didn't see my own reply to the thread, maybe because it had an
attachment. Another easy way to panic the system is to open a
second instance of the device, it will play for a couple of
seconds and then panic, I've always been in X so I miss the error
message. I'm not sure what the best fix is, I mean, concurrent
access at the device level is nice, but mutual exclusion will
probably by much easier to implement.
>
> > I'm also kinda working on mythtv, I've got the latest built, but
> > it's failing at probing the inputs of the card (the version in the
> > ports works at that part, but fails to get schedules). I've never
> > used mythtv so I don't have reference to a working version.
>
> I'm mostly interested in integrating pvr support into kbtv, with embedded
> mplayer if need to (12% wcpu).
I have not heard of ktv. I'll take a look tonight. I made a
little progress on mythtv, it now download the tv listings from
schedules direct but the backend refuses to start-up the capture
card. I think I've located the problem to the some autoprobing of
the cards inputs, I have some hacks that I will try tonight.
>
> > For now, I'm using a slightly hacked version of the devel version
> > of mpegcat (multimedia/gopchop) to split the mpeg stream on the
> > hour. I intend to send those patches to the author, they are
> > trivial.
> >
> > --Mat
>
> For (video) viewing, mpeg2dec (over sdl) also works, but that's without any
> audio stream playing yet.
I record to a file, and split every hour, I use a script to
softlink the current file to a file called NOW. I play using
'tail -F NOW | mplayer -vf pp=lb -cache 5000 -'. Or playing the
file directly makes fastfowrard-rewind works, however, when
playing a file directly it's exists at EOF instead of pausing like
it does when reading from stdin. I wonder how hard it would be
hack that in...
PVR-150 (and 250) interlace the video, so the de-interlacer is
required for nice looking output.
--Mat
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