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PostPosted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 1:09 pm 
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I've just installed KnoppMyth R4v4.1 on a box with a Hauppauge PVR-350, and I'm having trouble getting TV to work: when I select "Watch TV" in MythTV, I get a black screen for a few seconds, then it exits. When I run xawtv in a shell, I (sometimes) get a second or so of noise when I change channels, then a black window.

Normally, I'd suspect misconfigured devices. But when I run 'mplayer /dev/video0', it shows the video correctly. So presumably the problem lies closer to xawtv than to the devices.

Here's what 'lspci -v' has to say about the PVR-350:
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00:0a.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC15 MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc.: Unknown device 4000
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 12
        Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
        Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2


I'm running xawtv 3.88, off of the KnoppMyth R4v4.1 CD. I tried building 3.94, but that didn't seem to fix anything.

I saw that some people have been told to try moving the PVR to a different PCI slot. Unfortunately, this isn't an option for me: this is a bare-bones machine with only one PCI slot.

I don't have bttv loaded, since 'modprobe bttv' complains that
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/lib/modules/2.4.25-chw/v4l2/bttv.o: init_module: No such device

Then again, since /dev/video0 is giving me a signal, perhaps I don't need it. Or do I?

Any suggestions? Thanks.
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Why the frell is thi s in installation?

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cesman wrote:
Why the frell is thi s in installation?


Because it seemed the best place to post it. Why do you ask?

At any rate, I've found the answer elsewhere: xawtv can't deal with MPEG input.
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I ask because this isn't a KnoppMyth installation issue. KnoppMyth ->Installation is for KnoppMyth related installation issues and questions. A search of the forum would have yield the answer.

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cesman wrote:
I ask because this isn't a KnoppMyth installation issue.


It isn't? It seems related to getting KnoppMyth installed and running. Where would you have put it?

cesman wrote:
KnoppMyth ->Installation is for KnoppMyth related installation issues and questions.


Seems like KnoppMyth related question to me.

cesman wrote:
A search of the forum would have yield the answer.


Where? I just searched for "xawtv mplayer pvr" and only got this thread. A search for "xawtv mplayer" found a bunch of threads, with one possible hint at a solution... in "Installation"

http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic. ... layer#2580
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It isn't. Don't like. Don't use it.

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