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PVR500 and recording collisions
I have a PVR 500 and have been using it for almost a year without too many
issues.. But ive broken something at the moment.. Both capture cards work if
I cat /dev/video0|1> file.mpeg from them, and both appear to be setup in
myth.. But if I schedule 2 recordings from 2 channels overlapping myth
schedules a collision and will not record both programs..

Who can give me and idea on where to start looking in my configs?
I will attempt to try pip mode to be sure the second cards config hasn't
been corrupted.

Kyle Carter


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Re: PVR500 and recording collisions [ In reply to ]
>I have a PVR 500 and have been using it for almost a year without too many
>issues.. But ive broken something at the moment.. Both capture cards work if
>I cat /dev/video0|1> file.mpeg from them, and both appear to be setup in
>myth.. But if I schedule 2 recordings from 2 channels overlapping myth
>schedules a collision and will not record both programs..
>
>Who can give me and idea on where to start looking in my configs?
>I will attempt to try pip mode to be sure the second cards config hasn't
>been corrupted.
>
>Kyle Carter
>

Have you changed anything recently? Like upgraded the ivtv drivers?

- Wade

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Re: PVR500 and recording collisions [ In reply to ]
Kyle Carter wrote:
> I have a PVR 500 and have been using it for almost a year without too many
> issues.. But ive broken something at the moment.. Both capture cards work
> if
> I cat /dev/video0|1> file.mpeg from them, and both appear to be setup in
> myth..

Thats good - means that your ivtv driver is working. If you use
ivtv-tune -d /dev/video1 -c 8
then
cat /dev/video1 > video1.mpg
then ^C after 5 or 10 secs then
xine video1.mpg
do you get the right channel? (thats TV2 in Chch)

> But if I schedule 2 recordings from 2 channels overlapping myth
> schedules a collision and will not record both programs..

Sounds like myth has managed to forget something. Have you recently
upgraded ivtv? the names of the tuners changed.

> Who can give me and idea on where to start looking in my configs?
> I will attempt to try pip mode to be sure the second cards config hasn't
> been corrupted.

Check out the cardinput table in mysql... see if there are extra lines.
Compare that with the dmesg output relating to ivtv.


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RE: PVR500 and recording collisions [ In reply to ]
Yes, cat from the card works fine.

Table looks fine(although wll probably be mangled by the email client)
Dmesg looks fine, I may have upgraded ivtv without noticing (yay for apt)
but its all still running..)

Have installed the latest mythupdates last night.. will have a look
tonight.. all looked ok in my quick look through the configuration screens..


No doubt it will be something silly. Thought it may have been a common
problem or something.


Table:
+-------------+--------+----------+-----------+-----------------+-----------
-+-----------+----------+-----------+---------------+-------------+---------
---+----------------+------------+------------+-------------+
| cardinputid | cardid | sourceid | inputname | externalcommand | preference
| shareable | tunechan | startchan | freetoaironly | diseqc_port |
diseqc_pos | lnb_lof_switch | lnb_lof_hi | lnb_lof_lo | displayname |
+-------------+--------+----------+-----------+-----------------+-----------
-+-----------+----------+-----------+---------------+-------------+---------
---+----------------+------------+------------+-------------+
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Tuner 0 | | 0
| N | | 3 | 1 | NULL |
NULL | 11700000 | 10600000 | 9750000 | |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | Tuner 0 | | 0
| N | | 5 | 1 | NULL |
NULL | 11700000 | 10600000 | 9750000 | |
+-------------+--------+----------+-----------+-----------------+-----------
-+-----------+----------+-----------+---------------+-------------+---------
---+----------------+------------+------------+-------------+

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From: mythtvnz-admin@lists.linuxnut.co.nz
[mailto:mythtvnz-admin@lists.linuxnut.co.nz] On Behalf Of Criggie
Sent: Friday, 28 April 2006 8:34 a.m.
To: mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz
Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] PVR500 and recording collisions


Kyle Carter wrote:
> I have a PVR 500 and have been using it for almost a year without too many
> issues.. But ive broken something at the moment.. Both capture cards work
> if
> I cat /dev/video0|1> file.mpeg from them, and both appear to be setup in
> myth..

Thats good - means that your ivtv driver is working. If you use
ivtv-tune -d /dev/video1 -c 8
then
cat /dev/video1 > video1.mpg
then ^C after 5 or 10 secs then
xine video1.mpg
do you get the right channel? (thats TV2 in Chch)

> But if I schedule 2 recordings from 2 channels overlapping myth
> schedules a collision and will not record both programs..

Sounds like myth has managed to forget something. Have you recently
upgraded ivtv? the names of the tuners changed.

> Who can give me and idea on where to start looking in my configs?
> I will attempt to try pip mode to be sure the second cards config hasn't
> been corrupted.

Check out the cardinput table in mysql... see if there are extra lines.
Compare that with the dmesg output relating to ivtv.


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RE: PVR500 and recording collisions [ In reply to ]
Kyle wrote:
> Yes, cat from the card works fine.
>
> Table looks fine(although wll probably be mangled by the email client)
> Dmesg looks fine, I may have upgraded ivtv without noticing (yay for apt)
> but its all still running..)
>
> Have installed the latest mythupdates last night.. will have a look
> tonight.. all looked ok in my quick look through the configuration
> screens..
>
>
> No doubt it will be something silly. Thought it may have been a common
> problem or something.

I half-suspect that you've upgraded ivtv at some point, and what was Tuner
0 should now be Tuner 1


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RE: PVR500 and recording collisions [ In reply to ]
I upgraded to the latest myth packages.. And still had the issue (and a
problem with connecting to the database, but a dpkg-reconfigure fixed that
(not sure where it was getting the wrong username and password from as the
mysql.txt was correct)

I also changed the tuner settings and it appears to be detecting the tuner
ok now.. But I need to do some testing.. Thanks for your help criggie.

Im looking for where you found out about the tuner device changing.. If you
have a link that would be great

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[mailto:mythtvnz-admin@lists.linuxnut.co.nz] On Behalf Of Criggie
Sent: Friday, 28 April 2006 11:30 a.m.
To: mythtvnz@lists.linuxnut.co.nz
Subject: RE: [mythtvnz] PVR500 and recording collisions

Kyle wrote:
> Yes, cat from the card works fine.
>
> Table looks fine(although wll probably be mangled by the email client)
> Dmesg looks fine, I may have upgraded ivtv without noticing (yay for
> apt) but its all still running..)
>
> Have installed the latest mythupdates last night.. will have a look
> tonight.. all looked ok in my quick look through the configuration
> screens..
>
>
> No doubt it will be something silly. Thought it may have been a common
> problem or something.

I half-suspect that you've upgraded ivtv at some point, and what was Tuner 0
should now be Tuner 1


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RE: PVR500 and recording collisions [ In reply to ]
Kyle Carter wrote:
> Im looking for where you found out about the tuner device changing.. If
> you have a link that would be great

The doc/README.install file in the ivtv source I thought.

Also http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/ivtv/users/29393


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