[mythtv-users] One problem after another (ivtvfwextract)

[zardoz at zardoz.ath.cx]

copy this : 

ftp://ftp.shspvr.com/download/wintv-pvr_250-350/win9x-2k-xp_mpeg_wdm_drv/pvr48wdm_1.8.22037.exe

to your .....ivtv/utils directory and use

./ivtvfwextract.pl pvr48wdm_1.8.22037.exe

hth

---z




On Sunday 14 November 2004 08:43, clemens at dwf.com wrote:
> Well, I seem to progress from one problem to the next.
>
> In installing the PVBR-250 driver, it seems that I need some firmware
> that is extracted from a windows driver.  It APPEARS that the program
> ivtvfwextract is supposed to do this if you just mount the Hauppauge
> CD on /mnt/cdrom.
>
> Sigh.
>
> I have mounted the CD there, and I have tried putting the path to the
> file in the command line.  In both cases I get exactly the same error
> message, namely:
>
>     [root at MythTV driver]# ./ivtvfwextract.pl pvr250_22_22292.exe
>     ./ivtvfwextract.pl: Can't open /tmp/ivtvex.4700/hcwpvrp2.sys: No such
> file or directory
>
> I havent examined the program to see why it is trying to open this file
> and failing, mumph.
>
> Again, am I doing something wrong?
> I did a quick search with GOOGLE and didnt see this firmware anywhere where
> I could just grab it, so getting the ivtv driver to work is currently a
> lost cause.
>
> Since Im sure Im going to what to do this again later to update this
> firmware, it would be nice to know what is going wrong here.
>
> [[ More and more, Im beginning to believe that my decision to build
> everyting from scratch, so I could see how it all went together was a bad
> decision,- ]]