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Author: | krypton_john [ Fri May 14, 2004 3:53 am ] |
Post subject: | PVR-250 MCE OEM PAL (model 32559) - Success! |
OK, I have got this thing running perfectly - after many many hours and attempts! This card has a different encoder (iCTV16) and tuner (Microtune 4049 FM5) chip to the "gold standard" pvr-250's. This meant that KnoppMyth would hang on boot due to the first, and when that is fixed wouldn't tune due to the second. I went through all this with KnoppMyth R4V2. There are plenty of ivtv patches to 0.1.9 to get around the iCTV16 issue, and it is also fixed in ivtv-0.1.10-pre2. bttv 0.9.x supports the Microtune tuner chip. To get it all working, I first upgraded to R4V3. Then I obtained the latest patched ivtv-0.1.10-pre2-65c and bttv-0.9.15. Once these are installed, in the right order, it all worked. Here is the step-by-step I used: 1) Download KnoppMyth R4V3 iso and burn a CD. 2) Remove any PVR-x50 cards with iCTV16 encoders from system. 3) Boot KnoppMyth CD and select auto-install. 4) Once system is installed, allow to reboot. 5) Breeze through the install instructions. Once you get to the setup gui exit by pressing esc. MythTV itself will start next. Exit by pressing esc. 5) Open up a console window by clicking on the desktop and selecting XTerm. 6) Use wget to download ivtv-0.1.10-pre2-ck and bttv-0.9.15 (or later if stable). Unpack them into current directory. wget http://dl.bytesex.org/releases/video4li ... .15.tar.gz tar xvfz bttv-0.9.15.tar.gz wget http://kmos.org/~ckennedy/ivtv/ivtv-0.1 ... 2-ck65.tgz tar xvfz ivtv-0.1.10-pre2-ck65.tgz 7) Unpack the kernel sources su cd /usr/src bzcat linux-2.4.25-chw.tar.bz2 | tar xvf - ![]() cp linux/.config linux-2.4.25-chw rm linux ln -s linux-2.4.25-chw linux cd linux-2.4.25-chw make oldconfig dep 9) exit su session back to mythtv session ctrl-D cd 10) compile the bttv and ivtv code cd bttv-0.9.15 su make ctrl-D cd cd ivtv-0.1.10-pre2-ck65/driver make cd ../utils make 11) Install the ivtv then the bttv kernel modules cd su cd bttv-0.9.15 make install cd ../ivtv-0.1.10-pre2-ck65/driver make install cd ../utils make install ctrl-D 12) edit /etc/mythtv/modules/ivtv alias char-major-81 videodev alias char-major-81-0 ivtv alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c options ivtv ivtv_debug=1 cardtype=2 tda9887=1 options tuner type=45 options tda9887 options msp3400 once=1 simple=1 add below ivtv msp3400 saa7115 tuner tda9887 add above ivtv lirc_dev lirc_i2c post-install ivtv /usr/local/bin/test_ioctl -u 0xff -p 4 -f width=720,height=576 13) Shutdown linux shutdown now 14) Install PVR-x50 card 15) Reboot 16) Setup MythTV channels etc. 17) Enjoy! Hope that helps someone else! Thanks to innumerable people for giving me advice, in particular to Ces & Dale - I would not want to have undertaken this without KnoppMyth as a starting point! Cheers, JohnO |
Author: | ogp [ Tue May 25, 2004 3:04 am ] |
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Help! I have 3 of these pvr250's. I was able to run through your guide successfully, but still unable to bring up any video. Since I have three cards, would I need to do anything differently when editing edit /etc/mythtv/modules/ivtv? Please help as I have been laboring over these cards for a while and still am unable to get it working........ |
Author: | krypton_john [ Tue May 25, 2004 4:21 am ] |
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So what do you get - static? Have you successfully run mythfilldatabase to setup all your channel definitions and made sure all channels are associated with a video source? What country are you in? I would try with just one card first. Cheers, JohnO |
Author: | ogp [ Tue May 25, 2004 10:58 am ] |
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I'm in the us. I get nothing. Just a blank screen. When I try to run mythfilldatabase I get errors "unretry-able error reading schedule". Also, when I run mythtv-setup there isn't anything listed in the input connections menu, which leads me to believe that it isn't seeing any cards at all..... |
Author: | Xsecrets [ Tue May 25, 2004 11:15 am ] |
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you have to fix xmltv there is a sticky post in the linux mythtv section of the forums on how to do this. |
Author: | krypton_john [ Wed May 26, 2004 6:26 am ] |
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ogp wrote: I'm in the us. I get nothing. Just a blank screen. When I try to run mythfilldatabase I get errors "unretry-able error reading schedule". Also, when I run mythtv-setup there isn't anything listed in the input connections menu, which leads me to believe that it isn't seeing any cards at all.....
You better not have the PAL format card (model 32559) then! In which case you probably don't have the tuner issues I had. I expect if you insmod tveeprom then dmesg | tail you will see that it has recognised your tuner. If so you can pretty much ignore all I said and just search this forum for MCE OEM patch and you should find a small ivtv patch to get you around the card type issue. Either that or get the latest ivtv as I have. But don't worry about bttv. Ohm and as others have said, you need to update your xmltv as the source format of the listings has changed. |
Author: | ogp [ Wed May 26, 2004 11:18 pm ] |
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oops....I mistakenly read the title as 32552, the Amity card. Thanks for the heads up on xmltv! |
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