From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 16 12:59:42 2011 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 DDCD4106564A for ; Sat, 16 Apr 2011 12:59:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jaglover@gmail.com) Received: from eastrmfepo103.cox.net (eastrmfepo103.cox.net [68.230.241.215]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81F138FC12 for ; Sat, 16 Apr 2011 12:59:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eastrmimpo02.cox.net ([68.1.16.120]) by eastrmfepo103.cox.net (InterMail vM.8.01.04.00 201-2260-137-20101110) with ESMTP id <20110416125936.BZZN32559.eastrmfepo103.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net> for ; Sat, 16 Apr 2011 08:59:36 -0400 Received: from zeus.saul.homeunix.org ([70.163.54.131]) by eastrmimpo02.cox.net with bizsmtp id YCzc1g0062prety02CzcKS; Sat, 16 Apr 2011 08:59:36 -0400 X-CT-Score: NA X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=zssNN1rhgjgCNpoCGa6i7Pwh32lDB528+bGG8/HS1ps= c=1 sm=1 a=-g6l_ANScnoA:10 a=nDghuxUhq_wA:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=Rzpiz7u+t88bKM8RKTaw/Q==:17 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a=jJSEoD67AAAA:8 a=N3vH5299AAAA:8 a=3TFGuKluKlGUTrz1VsIA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=SV7veod9ZcQA:10 a=Rzpiz7u+t88bKM8RKTaw/Q==:117 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Authentication-Results: cox.net; none Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 07:59:22 -0500 From: Saul A Peebsen Cc: Message-ID: <20110416075922.7ec8dc35@zeus.saul.homeunix.org> In-Reply-To: <4c5558d4033458d88030ac02ab508bbd@bluelife.at> References: <20110415065522.30e8d9be@zeus.saul.homeunix.org> <4c5558d4033458d88030ac02ab508bbd@bluelife.at> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9 (GTK+ 2.24.3; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: MythTV backend - any hope to get my PVR-250 working? 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, 16 Apr 2011 12:59:42 -0000 On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:38:50 +0200 Bernhard Froehlich wrote: > On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 06:55:22 -0500, Saul A Peebsen wrote: > > I have an always on FreeBSD box which I thought would also serve as > > MythTV backend. After looking at http://wiki.freebsd.org/MythTV I > > figured it's a piece of cake and bought a PVR-250. > > Now I'm confused because MythTV does not find the card. > > > > After installing multimedia/pvr250 device node cxm0 is created, but > > that's the only one. I can cat the stream out of it and watch the > > default channel but that's it. > > > > The card is: > > Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 > > (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01) > > > > Is there any hope it would work after some fiddling or I just better > > ditch the whole idea? > > Don't know exactly about PVR-250 cards but pvrxxx is currently a > problem and known to fail since MythTV 0.22. I've tried to narrow down > the problem with Torfinn Ingolfsen for pvrxxx but could not find a > solution. Can you please also put the following patch into > /usr/ports/multimedia/mythtv/files/ and reinstall mythtv. After that > try to configure the card and send me the mythbackend.log file please. > > http://home.bluelife.at/patches/patch-libs__libmythtv__mpegrecorder.cpp > Well, did that. After trying configure and specifying manually /dev/cxm0 ... http://saul.homeunix.org:8000/tmp/mythbackend.log Does not look very promising, methinks? Let me ask, is multimedia/pvr250 supposed to create just one node [cxm] or there is supposed to be more? -- Cheers, Saul