[mythtv-users] I'm getting real pissed off about IVTV

[Stephen Kitchener]

On Wednesday 25 Jan 2006 17:02, Richard Bronosky wrote:

Hi Richard,

Looks like , to me, you have a half dead board... I've had two so far, DOA, 
The first has been confirmend DOA and the 2nd is going back tomorrow, let's 
hope the 3rd works...I guess that they will test with a windows box.

The test you did below is all that I did in the end, the clue is when you set 
the freq/channel on /dev/video0 or 1, it either says "signal found" or 
doesn't respond with anything...

Steve

> I tried:
> cat /dev/video0 > ~/tmp/video0.mpg
> [wait 5 seconds, ctrl-c]
> cat /dev/video1 > ~/tmp/video1.mpg
> [wait 5 seconds, ctrl-c]
>
> video0.mpg contained a viewable file that was 5.7meg
> video1.mpg was 0 bytes
>
> Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> > Richard Bronosky wrote:
> >> I don't own a windows box.  Is there a method of testing it in Linux
> >> that I have not done?  (see my logs link in the "situation" page below.)
> >
> > Not that I know of short of cat /dev/video1 > test.mpg to dump the
> > output of the card to a file.  It is impossible to say without having
> > other evidence of the card functioning in another system whether you are
> > experiencing a hardware problem.  It is not uncommon from the messages
> > I've read to have a PVR-500 with one tuner defective.  I've also seen
> > reports where loading the Windows drivers/firmware on a Windows system
> > resets the card to a working state.  I think this is usually indicative
> > of a firmware issue but either way, testing in another OS should give
> > you the confirmation of whether the card works at all.
> >
> > Kevin
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