[mythtv-users] Problems w/ MythTV

[Joe Votour]

I can't help you with everything, but I can suggest a
couple of things:

1. When you use the PVR-350 to play your videos in
MythTV, the sound goes out the PVR-350 audio out. 
Therefore, that has to be connected somehow.  The
connection that I used with my PVR-350 (which I
believe is the most common) is to connect the RCA
jacks to Line-In, and unmute it.  (From there, connect
Line-Out to your TV.)

2. When I use the ivtv driver, I do get a brief green
screen before X kicks in.

3. Don't know about that one, I haven't seen it myself

4. If the PVR-350 is hooked up properly, then I don't
know.

5. The insturctions on Jarod's site worked perfectly
for me (although I use different files that I created
because I don't use the PVR-350 remote, I use a
Universal remote).

6. I believe that is a problem with the ivtv driver
included with the RPM.  I recall having the same
problem until I found a different copy of the
ivtvdrv_dev.o (I think that's the name) binary file.

-- Joe

--- Rob Greene <greener at charter.net> wrote:

> I'm having quite a few problems setting up Myth. I'm
> based on Fedora Core 3,
> Hauppauge PVR-350, an old Voodoo Banshee video care
> (just for setup), P3
> 500MHz, DVD (approx 5 year-old hardware except for
> the PVR card).
> 
> I've been following Myth(TV)ology directions
> (http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php), but not
> everything has happened as
> expected.
> 
> 1. I can view video on my monitor, but not hear it.
> I've gone through all
> the suggested remedies that I could find without
> resorting to manual
> compiles. If I grab an mpeg from a different machine
> that I know has sound,
> I can play it with mplayer and listen too. If I take
> the captured mpeg and
> move it to my laptop, there is no sound there
> either. From that I determined
> that I'm not capturing audio in the first place.
> I've played with the
> msp3400 drivers, but the suggestions are always to
> delete a specific one.
> I'm not sure if the correct one is being found.
> 
> 2. When I enable the TV out, the TV goes from blue
> (no signal) to green.  Is
> that right?
> 
> 3. If I play a video on the TV, it's inverted and
> definitely tinted green.
> I cannot figure out why and haven't seen anything
> regarding this.
> 
> 4. No sound is played through my TV speakers.  This
> may be related to the
> sound not being recognized above.
> 
> 5. Lirc doesn't see my remote.  It's the one that
> came with the PVR-350.
> It's plugged in and I think the devices are correct
> AFAICT, but I just saw a
> posting that suggests I have a little bit more to do
> - so maybe this just
> isn't quite done.
> 
>
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/95850
> 
> 6. I am unable to get X to use the PVR-350 TV out. 
> I get an error about
> ivtvdevModuleData not found or something like that.
> 
> 7. This is really weird.  If the video drivers have
> been loaded, when I shut
> down the machine, after X exits, I see a blinking
> "D" on my screen and
> that's where the machine stops.  I have to do a hard
> power-off.  (Hold the
> power button, hit the reset button, or pull the
> power plug.)
> 
> I am more than willing to re-do the install.  This
> is an "extra" machine
> which, I thought, would be a good start for a
> prototype Myth setup, so I
> have nothing to lose by reformatting and restarting.
>  My other server does
> have a more current NVidia card (with S-Video out, I
> think) that I can pull,
> but I really wanted to use the PVR-350 for
> everything - video/sound in and
> video/sound out as well as the remote control.
> 
> Any pointers or tips or curses are welcome.  I'm not
> really a newbie, but I
> haven't done anything out of the ordinary for quite
> a long time - most my
> current Linux efforts revolve around MySQL, Tomcat,
> TWiki, etc - stuff that
> is nearly standard now.
> 
> Thanks!
> -Rob
> 
> 
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