[mythtv-users] PVR-350 capture test problem (strange horizontal
lines)
Dan Werner
dan_mythtv at yahoo.com
Mon Aug 9 00:32:30 EDT 2004
Hi, I've been following Jarod's guide (which is awesome; thanks, Jarod!) while trying to set up MythTV. I've got a PVR-350 card, am using ivtv, and have FC1 (more details at the end). Everything's worked fine up until the point of testing the card's capture capabilities. I used these commands from the guide:
# /usr/bin/test_ioctl -u 0x3000
# /usr/bin/test_ioctl -p 4
# /usr/bin/test_ioctl -f width=720,height=480
# /usr/bin/test_ioctl -v input=3,output=1
# cat /dev/video0 > /tmp/test_capture.mpg
(ctrl-c to stop capture)
# mplayer /tmp/test_capture.mpg
The result is perfect audio but some horizontal (and slightly diagonal) lines covering the picture of the mpeg. The picture's sort of there; you can see things moving between the lines...it's like the image is kind of squished between the lines. I've tried different "-p" options (0-9) but the result is similar, except some are blank (I've got 2 different inputs plugged into the card at the moment, but this was happening when only 1 was plugged in).
The only similar problem I found in the mailing list archive was this:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/76958
I tried the advice to set the width to 480 but it didn't help. I also tried using ptune-ui.pl to change channels and tried changing cable types from ntsc-cable to ntsc-cable-hrc but it didn't have any effect.
Other than that, I tried dl'ing the ivtv 0.1.9 source and recompiling after extracting firmware from the cd-rom that came with the card, as well as with pvr48wdm_1.7.21188.exe which was dl'ed from the ftp site mentioned in Jarod's guide. Does it sound like trying different firmwares from the ftp site might help me?
I should mention that this is my 2nd attempt to get mythtv working. The first time, I eventually got all the way to "the end" with most things working. There were some system lock-ups and audio trouble, so I decided to try again with a fresh linux install (like 6 months later). I bring this up because my test capture worked perfectly on the first try last time, so it shouldn't be a hardware problem. The only thing I've really done differently this time is to use the custom kernel, which I didn't use previously (also I was using RH9 and didn't mess with ALSA).
Anybody have any ideas? I figure it's either 1) the firmware, 2) the kernel module, 3) I did something incredibly stupid.
I really hope it's not 3.
Some configuration for ivtv/modules follows. Sorry for the long message.
Thanks for any help,
Dan
# dmesg | grep ivtv
ivtv: version 0.1.9 (release) loading
ivtv: SGarray_size = 320, DSGarray_size = 16
ivtv: Found an iTVC15 based chip
saa7127: Configuring encoder...<6>saa7114.c: starting probe for adapter ivtv i2c driver #0 (0x10005)
ivtv: Encoder revision: 0x02040011
ivtv: Decoder revision: 0x02020023
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, minor 0
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, minor 32
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, minor 224
ivtv: Registered v4l2 device, minor 16
ivtv: loaded
ivtv-fb: Framebuffer module loaded (attached to ivtv card id 0)
ivtv-fb: screen coords: [0 0] -> [720 480]
ivtv-fb: original global alpha = 208
ivtv-fb: new global alpha = 208
ivtv-fb: current OSD state = 35
ivtv-fb: warning: cannot reserve video memory at 0xed510000
ivtv-fb: framebuffer at 0xed510000, mapped to 0xd3f74000, size 2818k
ivtv-fb: mode is 720x480x32, linelength=2880
# lspci -v
02:0b.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC15 MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. WinTV PVR-350
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 9
Memory at ec000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
# /usr/bin/test_ioctl -a
ioctl: IVTV_IOC_G_CODEC
Codec parameters
aspect : 2
audio : 0x00e9
bframes : 3
bitrate_mode: 0
bitrate : 8000000
bitrate_peak: 16000000
dnr_mode : 0
dnr_spatial : 0
dnr_temporal: 0
dnr_type : 0
framerate : 0
framespergop: 15
gop_closure : 0
pulldown : 0
stream_type : 0
ioctl: VIDIOC_G_FMT
Type : Video Capture
Width : 720
Height : 480
ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYCAP
Driver name : ivtv
Card type : Vanilla iTVC15 card
Bus info : 0
Driver version: 265
Capabilities : 0x01030003
ioctl: VIDIOC_ENUMINPUT
Name : Composite 0
Type : 0x00000002
Audioset: 0x00000001
Tuner : 0x00000000
Standard: 0x 3000 ( NTSC )
Status : 0
Name : Composite 1
Type : 0x00000002
Audioset: 0x00000001
Tuner : 0x00000000
Standard: 0x 3000 ( NTSC )
Status : 0
Name : Composite 2
Type : 0x00000002
Audioset: 0x00000001
Tuner : 0x00000000
Standard: 0x 3000 ( NTSC )
Status : 0
Name : Composite 3
Type : 0x00000002
Audioset: 0x00000001
Tuner : 0x00000000
Standard: 0x 3000 ( NTSC )
Status : 0
Name : Tuner 0
Type : 0x00000001
Audioset: 0x00000000
Tuner : 0x00000000
Standard: 0x 3000 ( NTSC )
Status : 0
Name : Composite 4
Type : 0x00000002
Audioset: 0x00000001
Tuner : 0x00000000
Standard: 0x 3000 ( NTSC )
Status : 0
Name : S-Video 0
Type : 0x00000002
Audioset: 0x00000001
Tuner : 0x00000000
Standard: 0x 3000 ( NTSC )
Status : 0
Name : S-Video 1
Type : 0x00000002
Audioset: 0x00000001
Tuner : 0x00000000
Standard: 0x 3000 ( NTSC )
Status : 0
Name : S-Video 2
Type : 0x00000002
Audioset: 0x00000001
Tuner : 0x00000000
Standard: 0x 3000 ( NTSC )
Status : 0
Name : S-Video 3
Type : 0x00000002
Audioset: 0x00000001
Tuner : 0x00000000
Standard: 0x 3000 ( NTSC )
Status : 0
ioctl: VIDIOC_G_INPUT
Input = 4
ioctl: VIDIOC_G_FREQUENCY
Frequency = 0
ioctl: VIDIOC_ENUMSTD
ID : 0x 3000
Name : NTSC
Frame period: 1001/30000
Frame lines : 525
ID : 0x FF
Name : PAL
Frame period: 1/25
Frame lines : 625
ID : 0x 7F0000
Name : SECAM
Frame period: 1/25
Frame lines : 625
ioctl: VIDIOC_G_STD
Standard = 0x00003000
ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYCTRL
Brightness = 128
Contrast = 64
Saturation = 64
Hue = 0
Volume = 59343
Mute = 0
# cat /etc/modules.conf
path[toplevel]=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/updates
# default path
path[toplevel]=/lib/modules/`uname -r`
alias eth0 8139too
alias usb-controller usb-uhci
alias usb-controller1 ehci-hcd
# nvidia kernel module
alias char-major-195 nvidia-1_0-6106
# --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
# --- ALSACONF verion 1.0.5 ---
alias char-major-116 snd
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
alias snd-card-0 snd-cmipci
alias sound-slot-0 snd-cmipci
# --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
# ivtv stuff
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 ivtv
options ivtv ivtv_debug=1 mpg_buffers=90
options ivtv dec_yuv_buffers=20 # <-- Not needed anymore for my 350 w/ivtv 0.1.9
options saa7127 enable_output=1 output_select=0 # composite output
options tuner type=2 # NTSC tuner
options msp3400 once=1 simple=1
add below ivtv msp3400 saa7115 saa7127 tuner
add above ivtv ivtv-fb
# dmesg (after "modprobe tveeprom")
tveeprom.c: starting probe for adapter ivtv i2c driver #0 (0x10005)
tveeprom.c: detecting tveeprom client on address 0xa0
9 [04] 20 77 00 40 a9 e7 63 00
3 [05] 9b 00
8 [06] 04 bc 00 00 d3 34 a9
2 [07] 70
Not sure what to do with tag [07]
3 [09] 13 5f
Not sure what to do with tag [09]
3 [0a] 08 21
3 [0b] 59 8c
Not sure what to do with tag [0b]
2 [0e] 01
2 [0f] 01
Not sure what to do with tag [0f]
2 [10] 01
Not sure what to do with tag [10]
2 [11] 00
Not sure what to do with tag [11]
tvee: Hauppauge: model=48132, rev=J333, serial#=6547369
tvee: tuner=Temic 4039FR5 (idx=33, type=21)
tvee: tuner fmt=NTSC(M) (eeprom=0x08, v4l2=0x00001000)
tvee: audio_processor=MSP3440 (type=11)
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