From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 28 02:09:10 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02C4916C565 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 02:09:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from ext-gw.lemis.com (ext-gw.lemis.com [150.101.14.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 970A913C441 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 02:09:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by ext-gw.lemis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 375A2133C06; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:39:08 +1030 (CST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 30EF01A9C9B; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:39:08 +1030 (CST) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 12:39:08 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Joe Auty , usleepless@gmail.com Message-ID: <20070228020908.GB2159@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="DKU6Jbt7q3WqK7+M" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 VoIP: sip:0871270137@sip.internode.on.net WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Problems with PVR 250 and MythTV 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: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 02:09:10 -0000 --DKU6Jbt7q3WqK7+M Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sorry, I can't find a way to reply to the messages that have gone past overnight, so I'll start again. * The PVR-250 is an analogue card. If you're feeding it a digital source, you won't get any signal. * Before you can use the card, you need to tune to a signal. Currently the program pvr250-setchannel does that; effectively the same program exists in 7-CURRENT as setchannel, and I'll MFC it when I'm happy with the rest. Tune like this: $ setchannel -m channel-no If you're in the USA using terrestial TV, is 1. Cable is 2. If you're using a satellite connection, you'll need some kind of converter. I'm not sure about the status of the man page for setchannel, but if you run it without arguments you should get a help message. * The current driver from usleep doesn't report errors when you try to tune to a channel without a signal. The old one (multimedia/pvr250) did. This is on my "to do" list. Once you have tuned to a channel, you can cat /dev/cxm0 somewhere. After that, you're in a position to set up MythTV. I'd strongly recommend using a terrestial source first to confirm that your card is working properly, then investigate the satellite input, and only then fighting MythTV. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --DKU6Jbt7q3WqK7+M Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFF5OREIubykFB6QiMRAqwEAJ9lWOpltjaFrrQv9TROx9LJSjKN9ACff5P4 bWTEVNopxrjhBtrWLuA2aek= =yMdk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --DKU6Jbt7q3WqK7+M--