[mythtv-users] hauppauge wintv pvr250 tuner setup help anybody

Gerhard Pauls mailing_list at gmx.ch
Fri Jul 9 06:10:17 EDT 2004


> hi all,
> i've read about mythtv on the internet and it really looks great. 
> i built myself a system based on a via epia m10k, with a wintv pvr250. 
> os is Debian/Gnu Linux 3.1 Sarge (from a netinst cd) i got the debian
> packages for mythtv from
> http://dijkstra.csh.rit.edu/~mdz/debian/dists/unstable/mythtv/
> and the ivtv driver.
> ivtv compiling and installation went fine (after i figured out that bttv
> support must be enabled in the kernel to get the tuner.o module [is that
> mentioned in the docs? i dont think so]) and i can record from s-video
> and composit jacks via 
> dd if=/dev/video0 of=/tmp/rec.mpg bs=64k count=100,
> i live in austria (pal country) and have a terrestrial antenna, the
> tuner tpye (as reported by modprobe tveeprom sais 29 (LG tuner)) i set
> that value to /etc/modules.conf and reloaded the module. 
> i tried all input channels [0-8] via test_ioctl [test_ioctl -d
> /dev/video0 -u 0xff -p 8 -f width=720,height=576] but i'm not able to
> get a tv signal, some channels deliver noise and some only black
> screens.
> i digged through the mailing-list archives and tried a lot of things i
> read there the last 3 nights (and they were long ones :-() but nothing
> helped.
> 
> can anyone give me another hint what i could try to get this to work?
> 
Have you configured the ivtv module for PAL according to the TvOutPal Howto
http://ivtv.writeme.ch/tiki-index.php?page=TvOutPal? Specially:
options ivtv ivtv_debug=1 ivtv_pal=1 tuner=5 
options tuner pal=1 
See also this thread:
http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2004-June/045225.html
Gerd

> if theres any information missing please let me know, i'd gladly provide
> anything that might be usefull.
> 
> so long
> maestro
> 
> p.s. sorry for the bad english it's not my mother's tounge
> 
> 

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