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On Wednesday 13 August 2003 02:47 pm, jas wrote:
> I assume that to get my wintv pvr250 rev1 to work in mythtv all I have
> to do is choose the harware encoder card option in the myth-setup.
> Is that correct or is there a magic thing I also have to do (apart from
> correctly nstalling and loading the driver)?

That's all.

> From dmesg and lsmod it seems ivtv load without errors, but when I try
> to launch mythtv I get code -16 errors and 'Timeout waiting for data!"
> as well as a black screen.

Looks like the driver isn't working properly. Might want to look at the ivtv
list archives, I seem to remember something similar a while back.

Isaac
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On Wednesday 13 August 2003 20.47, jas wrote:
> From dmesg and lsmod it seems ivtv load without errors, but when I try
> to launch mythtv I get code -16 errors and 'Timeout waiting for data!"
> as well as a black screen.

I had to enable PCI bus mastering in BIOS on my computer before I could get
any video out of the card. Also, you have to set some parameters on the board
using the test_ioctl (distributed with ivtv) application. The lines below
works for me. The setup is for PAL, so if you are in a country with another
video standard you'll have to modify the lines below.

# Use PAL
test_ioctl -u 0xff

# Video input (this is the tuner on my card)
test_ioctl -p 4

# Set PAL resolution. I think MythTV does this so you don't have to.
test_ioctl -f width=720,height=576

# I had to lower my bitrate to get smooth playback
test_ioctl -c bitrate=2500000,bitrate_peak=4000000

# Audio setup
test_ioctl -v input=3,output=1

After setting all this up you should be able to do:
cat /dev/video0 > /tmp/first.mpg
^C

Hope this helps.

Best regards,
Tobias

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