From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 19 13:26:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 660F516A4CE for ; Wed, 19 May 2004 13:26:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc12.comcast.net (sccrmhc12.comcast.net [204.127.202.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1925543D39 for ; Wed, 19 May 2004 13:26:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from interjet.elischer.org ([24.7.73.28]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc12) with ESMTP id <2004051920260501200kcau0e>; Wed, 19 May 2004 20:26:16 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA58974; Wed, 19 May 2004 13:26:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 13:26:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Bruce Campbell In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting the hauppage pvr250 card working under 5.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 20:26:20 -0000 On Tue, 18 May 2004, Bruce Campbell wrote: > > For better or for worse, I have a Hauppage PVR250 Wintv card, and I'm > trying to get it working under FreeBSD 5.2 . > > What I have tried so far is: > > John Wehle's cxm code of March 20, 2004 as posted to this list. > > hcwpvrp2.sys 1.7? (MD5 f9de6571f8a7afdffb13ffb31adeeada) > cxm0: encoder firmware version 0x2040002 > cxm0: decoder firmware version 0x2020001 > > hcwpvrp2.sys 1.8 (MD5 d157f8ad1dc71ced812307b7cd5ee263) > ( Both retrieved from http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/support_pvr250-350.html ) > cxm0: encoder firmware version 0x2040011 > cxm0: decoder firmware version 0x2020023 > > The card in various PCI slots (in some slots the module refuses to > load at all) both with and without other PCI cards in place. The > working solution appears to be the slot next to a vga card in > place, and not the extra ethernet card (3com). > > The end result with the basic code is the expected: > > $ cat /dev/cxm0 > /var/tmp/foo.mpg > cat: /dev/cxm0: Device not configured > > After making minor changes to the code for more specific information and > increasing the loop in cxm_saa7115_wait_for_lock from 10 to 20, then > further changing the code such that, yes, its ok to ignore the locks in > the various wait_for_lock routines (all now return 1) and finally > overriding the frames per second in cxm_saa7115_detected_fps (to 25 in my > case, 30 in others), I can see static by doing 'mplayer -vo x11 -ao null > /dev/cxm0': > > Default: static. > setchannel -c (known video signal plugged in): black > setchannel -s (no cable): black > setchannel -t 0, 2 to 89: all static > ( known signal on channel 6 ) > ( Cannot change to channels above 89, nor channel 1 ) > > Is there something else that I'm missing in order to see video via the TV > card? no, but keep working on it.. that way I can swoop in when you've fixed it all and just buy one and expect it to work :-) :-) > > -- > Bruce Campbell > Random hacker. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-multimedia > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-multimedia-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >