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Date:      Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:24:52 -0500
From:      Joe Auty <joe@netmusician.org>
To:        usleepless@gmail.com
Cc:        freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pvr250 and MythTV
Message-ID:  <6D0F5945-B781-4397-9AEA-EDCF935068D5@netmusician.org>
In-Reply-To: <c39ec84c0702271511m7c1eeee0h2c60f933f526cf3d@mail.gmail.com>
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On Feb 27, 2007, at 6:11 PM, usleepless@gmail.com wrote:

> Joe,
>
> On 2/27/07, Joe Auty <joe@netmusician.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I do have these cables, I could give this a try if this would be
>> useful....
>>
>> Is this driver designed to work via a simple cat redirection like the
>> pvr250 port does? I'm wondering why you are focussed on the Myth port
>> as opposed to capturing video this way?
>>
>>
>> For starters, here is the mythbackend output to stdout when I start
>> it up:
>>
>> 2007-02-27 17:55:26.774 Using runtime prefix = /usr/local
>> 2007-02-27 17:55:26.862 New DB connection, total: 1
>> 2007-02-27 17:55:26.876 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
>> localhost
>> 2007-02-27 17:55:26.891 Current Schema Version: 1158
>> Starting up as the master server.
>> 2007-02-27 17:55:26.924 New DB connection, total: 2
>> 2007-02-27 17:55:26.926 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
>> localhost
>> 2007-02-27 17:55:26.936 EITHelper: localtime offset -5:00:00
>> 2007-02-27 17:55:26.956 TVRec(1) Error: Start channel invalid,
>> setting to '100' on input Tuner 0 instead.
>> 2007-02-27 17:55:26.963 New DB connection, total: 3
>> 2007-02-27 17:55:26.965 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
>> localhost
>> 2007-02-27 17:55:30.812 ChannelBase: Could not find input: Television
>> on card when setting channel 100
>>
>> 2007-02-27 17:55:30.844 ChannelBase: Could not find input: Television
>> on card when setting channel 49
>>
>> 2007-02-27 17:55:30.852 TVRec(1) Error: Setting start channel '100'
>> failed,
>>                          and backup '49' failed as well.
>> 2007-02-27 17:55:30.980 New DB scheduler connection
>> 2007-02-27 17:55:30.992 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
>> localhost
>> 2007-02-27 17:55:31.023 Main::Starting HttpServer
>> 2007-02-27 17:55:31.037 Main::Registering HttpStatus Extension
>> 2007-02-27 17:55:31.059 mythbackend version: 0.20.20060828-3
>> www.mythtv.org
>> 2007-02-27 17:55:31.060 Enabled verbose msgs:  important general
>> 2007-02-27 17:55:31.061 AutoExpire: Found 1 recorders w/max rate of
>> 72 MiB/min
>> 2007-02-27 17:55:31.065 AutoExpire: Required Free Space: 2.1 GB w/
>> freq: 10 min
>> 2007-02-27 17:55:33.022 Reschedule requested for id -1.
>> 2007-02-27 17:55:33.962 Scheduled 0 items in 0.9 = 0.90 match + 0.04
>> place
>> 2007-02-27 17:55:33.972 Seem to be woken up by USER
>>
>>
>> Like I said before, the error message I get from trying to watch TV:
>>
>> > 2007-02-27 16:56:48.636 MPEGRec(/dev/cxm0) Error: error reading
>> > from: /dev/cxm0
>> >                          eno: Device not configured (6)
>>
>>
>> Which is the same as:
>>
>> > # cat /dev/cxm0 > test.mpg
>> > cat: /dev/cxm0: Device not configured
>
> do you know the pvr250-setchannel command?
>
> can you tune by freq instead of channel?
>
> #pvr250-setchannel -a on -t -m 2 205.250
>
> or something like that. and then "cat" the way you are used to. this
> driver should behave just like the pvr250 driver.
>
>


Yeah, I was playing with that tool earlier on... When I type in that  
particular command I get this:

# pvr250-setchannel -a on -t -m 2 205.250
ioctl( tfd, METEORSINPUT ) failed.: Invalid argument


The -t flag is causing this particular error message... I can remove  
it and this particular error message will go away, but I realize this  
doesn't help since we want to send the signal to the tuner.

I do not have an IR Blaster setup, my computer is only setup to  
"listen in" on my main satellite feed. This has been working prior  
using the other driver, just FYI.

/var/log/messages reports:

Feb 27 18:21:47 mymachine kernel: could not config dec
Feb 27 18:21:47 mymachine kernel: could not start encoder
Feb 27 18:22:31 mymachine kernel: cxm0: video decoder failed to lock
Feb 27 18:22:32 mymachine kernel: cxm0: audio decoder failed to lock


I'll check on my physical connections in just a few minutes...










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Joe Auty
NetMusician: web publishing software for musicians
http://www.netmusician.org
joe@netmusician.org



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