From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 18 16:00:24 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A2BE1065791 for ; Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:00:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no) Received: from osl1smout1.broadpark.no (osl1smout1.broadpark.no [80.202.4.58]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 486B18FC21 for ; Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:00:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Received: from osl1sminn1.broadpark.no ([80.202.4.59]) by osl1smout1.broadpark.no (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-3.01 (built Jul 12 2007; 32bit)) with ESMTP id <0KIA00MJ3XOM8WA0@osl1smout1.broadpark.no> for freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:00:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: from kg-v2.kg4.no ([80.202.83.38]) by osl1sminn1.broadpark.no (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-3.01 (built Jul 12 2007; 32bit)) with SMTP id <0KIA00BHGXOL8QC0@osl1sminn1.broadpark.no> for freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:00:22 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:00:21 +0200 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Message-id: <20090418170021.00e727aa.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.6.0 (GTK+ 2.16.1; amd64-portbld-freebsd7.2) X-Face: "t9w2,-X@O^I`jVW\sonI3.,36KBLZE*AL[y9lL[PyFD*r_S:dIL9c[8Y>V42R0"!"yb_zN,f#%.[PYYNq; m"_0v; ~rUM2Yy!zmkh)3&U|u!=T(zyv,MHJv"nDH>OJ`t(@mil461d_B'Uo|'nMwlKe0Mv=kvV?Nh@>Hb<3s_z2jYgZhPb@?Wi^x1a~Hplz1.zH Subject: Testing MythTV 0.21 - no MPEG hardware cards? X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:00:27 -0000 Hello, I finally found some time to try out the new MythTV 0.21 port. Here are my notes. Doing all this on a machine running: root@kg-quiet# uname -a FreeBSD kg-quiet.kg4.no 7.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-PRERELEASE #3: Sun Mar 29 14:46:57 CEST 2009 root@kg-quiet.kg4.no:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/QUIET amd64 The machine has a PVR-350 card, and I'm using usleep's pvrxxx driver: Mar 29 19:35:04 kg-quiet kernel: cxm0: mem 0xf8000000-0xfbffffff irq 20 at device 0.0 on pci2 Mar 29 19:35:04 kg-quiet kernel: cxm_iic0: on cxm0 Mar 29 19:35:04 kg-quiet kernel: iicbb0: on cxm_iic0 Mar 29 19:35:04 kg-quiet kernel: cxm0: Eeprom PAL Mar 29 19:35:04 kg-quiet kernel: tuner: type set to 38 (Philips PAL/SECAM multi (FM1216ME MK3)) by cxm Mar 29 19:35:07 kg-quiet kernel: cxm0: SAA7115 rev 1 video decoder Mar 29 19:35:07 kg-quiet kernel: cxm0: MSP4418G-B3 audio decoder Mar 29 19:35:07 kg-quiet kernel: cxm0: IR Remote Mar 29 19:35:07 kg-quiet kernel: cxm0: [ITHREAD] Mar 29 19:35:07 kg-quiet kernel: cxm0: encoder firmware version 0x2060039 Mar 29 19:35:07 kg-quiet kernel: cxm0: decoder firmware version 0x2020023 In mythtv-setup I choose a "V4L analog card" - there didn't seem to be a more appropriate setting. Specifically, why can't I select a "MPEG-2 encoder card" or something like that? The choices are: Analog V4L capture card MJPEG capture card (Matrox G200, DC10) USB MPEG-4 encoder box (Plextor ConvertX, etc) DBox2 TCP/IP cable box HDHomeRun DTV tuner box Network Recorder Video source setup and the rest of the things seems to work, but it's kind of hard to test when I can't get my tuner / capture card working. More to come, once I figure this out. -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen