Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 13:26:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Bruce Campbell <bc-fbsd-mm@vicious.dropbear.id.au> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting the hauppage pvr250 card working under 5.2 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0405191325120.41838-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0405151259570.6080@x53.ripe.net>
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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" >
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