WinTV PVR 250 + ivtv problem

Lumpmoose · Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2003 2:32 am Post subject: WinTV PVR 250 + ivtv problem

Alright, I've been trying to install ivtv for a few weeks now. After many Google and Gentoo forum searches, I combined every hint I've found, but to no avail. Based on a previous thread, I've switched from gentoo-sources to vanilla-sources. The http://bytesex.org/patches/2.4.21/patch-2.4.21-rc4-kraxel.gz kernel patch then worked without error (compared to all sorts of "reverse" errors before with gentoo-sources) using "gzip -dc patch-2.4.21-rc4-kraxel.gz | patch -p1" in /usr/src/linux.

So, the kernel patched fine, and I modularized all the important stuff.
From /usr/src/linux/.config:

klimoskb · n00b Joined: 18 Apr 2003 Posts: 14

hmm... I'm not exactly sure why you would need the vanilla-source to run ivtv. I have it running using the gentoo-sources... The following is what I did to get it to work.(I'm also using a wintv pvr-250 if your wondering)

For the kernal you'll need the following...

Lumpmoose · Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2003 4:49 am Post subject:

I was missing the firmware step (wasn't in the IVTV FAQ, along with a few other things). Thank you very much for the help. The picture looks really bad, but at least it's a start. Thanks!

EthanMel · n00b Joined: 15 Sep 2003 Posts: 4

Great walkthrough - this got me up and running too!!!

Why not submit it to the Myth TV install instructions / IvTV project page. That step with the firmware is a doozy... :lol:

I am (will be) running MythTV on a Pundit w/Gentoo and PVR250. Just waiting for some SCART adapter leads to turn up so I can test.

Rroet · Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2003 10:38 pm Post subject:

Nice walkthrough.. I'll certainly use it.

First I have to deal with kernel boot problems.. I'm running kernel gentoo-2.4.22 right now, but it has i2c version 2.8.0 build into it, which will not work with ivtv and lirc at this point in time.
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lbrtuk · l33t Joined: 08 May 2003 Posts: 910

More immediately, you can post it to the 'Documentation Tips and Tricks' section of this forum.

gcasillo · Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2003 9:58 pm Post subject:

Thank you, klimoskb! I am up and running with the ivtv drivers and 2.4.22-gentoo-r1. A word of warning to folks looking to use the ptune.pl Perl script, if you download the drivers from CVS, you will need to checkout the "video-ivtv" and "video-frequencies" modules in addition to the main "ivtv" module.

You can find the Video::Frequencies Perl module on CPAN under the Video::Capture::V4l bundle, but Video::ivtv is not there. Looks like this bundle has been left behind for some time.

Since I'm going to be building several machines at work for a video capture project using some Hauppauge PVR-250 cards, I'm going to write some ebuilds for ivtv, Video::Frequencies, and Video::ivtv. I'll also look into getting Video::ivtv included in the CPAN bundle, Video::Capture::V4l, by contacting its author. Maybe I can get that bundle updated for V4l2 and more up-to-date features available now.

I will post the ebuilds here for review sometime this week.

marrs · n00b Joined: 08 Apr 2003 Posts: 10

After reading a lot of pages on the subject on the ivtv, mythtv, here and other sites I finally got the PVR-350 working using ivtv. However, MythTV is still not working.

Some things that might help people (please comment or correct me if I've misinterpreted my own findings):

To get ptune.pl working, I needed the config-inifiles stuff for perl (apart from checking out and installing the modules mentioned above). I downloaded it from:

http://search.cpan.org/~wadg/Config-IniFiles-2.37/

Then unpacked it in a temporary directory and did a:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

I can now watch the PVR-350 tuner with mplayer. After having loaded the correct modules like this:

gcasillo · Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2003 6:04 am Post subject:

Well, my first attempt at installing a RAID-0 array scuttled my plans last weekend to put together some ebuilds for ivtv and lirc and write a comprehensive howto. I still plan on doing these things, but I'm waylaid with a list of problems including alsa compile problems and just general work related arglebargle. I'm going to have to put something together, because like I said before, I have to install these drivers for four new machines we built. Tomorrow might be the day I get started, so maybe Wednesday I'll have something to share here.

Ah, vaporware...

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duhmmm · n00b Joined: 13 Jan 2004 Posts: 4

grey screen of death!

I have primarily tried installing ivtv with a PVR-250 and have a few problems. I've compiled most modules into a 2.6.3 kernal and tried installing the masked version of IVTV from the portage system. It seems like the I2C may not be working properly. I can use ptune and capture video... (static or black screen). When I try to read the 7115 registers.. I just get "failed". I'm not sure if the channel is changing, but the input port seems to be as it goes to static when I use port 4... otherwise it is just black that is captured.

/dev/video0 is present and seems to provide data. I have not tried puting a composit intput in ... yet.

any help would be appreciated.

jim
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bustersnyvel · Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 10:12 am Post subject:

I'm running ivtv just fine on gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.9. I use version ivtv-0.1.10-pre2-ck105x from http://67.18.1.101/~ckennedy/ivtv/.

Now that I take a look at it - time to try the 0.2 version!

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cayenne · l33t Joined: 17 Oct 2002 Posts: 945 Location: New Orleans

Haven't seen this for awhile. I'm running easily on gentoo-dev-sources (I think 2.6x-r8....I'm not at home).

I just did emerge ivtv...edited the proper .conf files...and it works just fine.

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uzik · Apprentice Joined: 17 Apr 2003 Posts: 257

Good afternoon all:

I've just gotten through the setup for the basic gentoo system
and can now boot using my new kernel (started from stage1).
Woohoo!

I'm aiming for a mythtv system.

Which window manager do people recommend?
I won't be using this for anything except this purpose.

I have a low powered box (AMD Duron 600mhz+384 meg ram)
due to lack of funds. I'm saving for a PVR-250 for the hardware encoder
but meanwhile have a bt878 tuner card to try out.
I think I probably need the lightest GUI/WM I can find? Maybe IceWM?
Do I need to have this be only a backend box?

If I run 'emerge mythtv' is portage going to pick mysql, python, and a
window manager for me? If not, does anyone have a list of what they
emerged to get mythtv up? I'd eventually like to set it up to convert
the video recordings to a standard format and perhaps watch the
recordings from another networked box.

Is there any chance I can run this beast with framebuffer instead of X?
Framebuffer is less power hungry than X I thought.

Boa seems like a better choice for a web server than apache due to
it's much smaller footprint.

If you intend to be a backend only box the list is going to be much
smaller.

Thanks for any advice!

QuaffAPint · Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 9:07 pm Post subject:

Take a look at the nice walkthrough located here...
http://home.comcast.net/~alf_park/mythtv.html

uzik · Apprentice Joined: 17 Apr 2003 Posts: 257

Thanks!