[mythtv-users] ivtv in new fedora8 kernel causing problems?

John P Poet jppoet at gmail.com
Wed Aug 6 01:28:04 UTC 2008


On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Mache Creeger <mache at creeger.com> wrote:
> At 09:55 AM 4/16/2008, George Galt wrote:
>
> On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 8:23 AM, Kevin Plew <kevin at plewnet.com> wrote:
>> No, it didn't work. I tried adding it as suggested to my change-channel
>>  script.
>>
>>  change_channel
>>  #!/bin/sh
>>  if [ "X$1" = "X" ] || [ "X$2" = "X" ]; then
>>        echo "Usage: $0 <port> <channel number>"
>>        echo
>>        exit;
>>  fi
>>  /usr/local/bin/directv.pl port $1 setup_channel $2 hide
>>  /usr/local/bin/fix_audio &
>>
>>
>>  fix_audio
>>  #!/bin/bash
>>
>> sleep 3
>>  /usr/bin/v4l2-ctl -c audio_emphasis=0
>>
>>
>>  This command works, but I need to run it for both /dev/video0 and
>>  /dev/video1 running from cron every minute.
>>
>>  "/usr/bin/v4l2-ctl -d /dev/video0 --set-audio-input=1"
>>
>>
>>
>>  Kind of frustrating, but myth and the community are still the best.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  Kevin Plew
>>  Dad & Webmaster
>
> Kevin:
>
> I assume you are pulling your audio in through the "audio in" jack and
> your video through either the s-video or composite in.  Is there
> anyone getting bad audio through the tuner input or is it only the
> audio-in that is an issue?
>
> George
>
> I am having the same problem with Fedora 9 with a PVR-150 using the two
> stereo input (red and white) jacks for audio and the composite video input
> jack (yellow) for the video. I use it to capture the output from my Comcast
> cable decoder box.
>
> Are there any ideas on how to resolve this? I have a PVR-500 that uses the
> tuners on Fedora 9 and I never have had a problem with the audio there.
> However, with the changes looming next February, I am assuming that I become
> more dependent on this feature to record content from a decoder box.
>
> I had the same problem on my VIA EPIA M10000 running Fedora 8 and just
> replaced it with a new PVR-150 and an Asus P1-AH2 running Fedora 9. Same
> problem persists on the new hardware so I guess it is not hardware related.
> I will try the work around listed above.
>
> -- Mache

I no longer use a PVR-x50 card, but when I did, I had this problem.
For me, It was very kernel specific.  I don't know what kernel you are
using, but try a different one.


John
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