Problems wish tv-card (hauppage pvr150)

MrZoltan00 · n00b Joined: 08 Nov 2005 Posts: 41

Hi all,

I recently got my hands on a hauppage pvr150 card. I installed it following the GENTOO WIKI HARDWARE PVR500. The test cat /dev/video0 > vid0.mpg worked an I could play the output with mplayer (however the picture was bad quality). Now I try to run a program like mythtv or kdetv. Mythtv does not recognize my card, kdetv hangs and xawtv returns:

bemis · Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 12:11 am Post subject:

the only time i've ever seen that error is when i set up the card as a V4L card instead of an MPEG card (ivtv cards are MPEG-encoders - so you're getting an MPEG stream instead of raw YUV data) -- check mythtv-setup to make sure your card is configured as an MPEG card.

it's also possible that one or more of the kernel-built modules got left in /lib/modules/ so it go loaded before the ivtv-built modules -- you'll need to verify this yourself.
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MrZoltan00 · n00b Joined: 08 Nov 2005 Posts: 41

The card does not show up in mythtv at all so I can't configure it as MPEG card. I don't exactly know what you mean with your hint on /lib/modules. What exactly do I have to check?

Furthermore, I noticed that kdetv also spits an error message that the device (/dev/video0) is not a v4l device. So I suppose the problem is somewhere in that area.

My output of dmesg:

bemis · Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 1:28 am Post subject:

check out this link: http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Howto

it covers the bit i was talking about /lib/modules -- it sounds like the tuner unset problem is the key here.

regarding other apps - i'm not sure about kdetv or many of the others - but i know several tv apps have issues with the MPEG cards vs the YUV cards (a lot of the software-encoder cards (bttv) spit out raw YUV - and several apps seem to expect this by default) - you may be able to configure your app to use an MPEG card - but I couldn't say -- also make sure the permissions on /dev/video/ are set such that your user can read them.
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monkey89 · Guru Joined: 08 Mar 2004 Posts: 596

Yeah, I know for sure xawtv doesn't support ivtv. You just need a mpeg2 player.

mplayer /dev/video0 works.

simeli · Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 9:39 am Post subject:

i've never had a problem with the ivtv cards. Can you post your /etc/modules.d/ivtv file as well as the output of lsmod?

this is my dmesg output of the first tuner of my pvr500:

simeli · Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 9:44 am Post subject:

I believe yo could also be using the v4l tveeprom module instead of the one supplied with ivtv. There are other modules installed with the v4l drivers that are also supplied with ivtv and are duplicate. you need to make sure those are deleted or renamed, so the ivtv modules get used. If I recall correctly these are tveeprom, tuner, tda9887 and msp3400.
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MrZoltan00 · n00b Joined: 08 Nov 2005 Posts: 41

ok, the tuner unset message in dmesg can't be the issue, because it also appears in simeli's output.
I actually didn't use the modules supplied by ivtv, so that could be the problem. The reason for this is, because I couldn't find the ivtv modules. Where should they be located after ivtv is emerged? I could find the kernel modules though, so I suppose I need the ivtv modules and copy them over the kernel modules?

Second, mplayer /dev/video0 works perefctly at the moment. Are there any other tv-programs that support mpeg2 cards other than mythtv, so I could try those.

simeli · Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 3:33 pm Post subject:

the modules get installed automatically in the right place but in a different folder. use find to see where they are. not in fron of my box at the moment...
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MrZoltan00 · n00b Joined: 08 Nov 2005 Posts: 41

i can only find them in /lib64/modules/2.6.15-gentoo-r5/kernel/drivers/media/video/ and in /usr/src/linux-2.6.15-gentoo-r5/drivers/media/video/.
Which ones should i copy over to which directory? The modules in the directories have the same size. Aren't they the same?

Thanks

simeli · Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 3:40 pm Post subject:

/usr/src is the location of the kernel sources. all gets compiled in there and then copied over to /lib. thus you'd have to look in /lib
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