Hello,
First of all i want to thank the KnoppMyth Folks for an amazing job they do with the distribution.
It worked for me, but not in the Tier 1.
There are things that still have to be done, but i can live with them until i get even with.
My hardware is a Pundit,
http://uk.asus.com/products/desktop/pundit/overview.htm and as TVTUNER i have a Hauppauge PRV 350,
http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_350.html. This hardware had been picked just for this project. I live in Sweden so my configurations will possibly work for Europe at least.
The release i grabbed was the latest at this time:
http://hust.la/KnoppMyth/KnoppMythR4V4.1.iso
I used to get "almost" Mythtv working with gentoo for some time ago , but there was a lot of documentation that I had to read then, so i put the project in ice for a while..
After the first boot i got all the modules working. I configured mythtv to get use to the channels i knew and the usual configuration stuff.
The first thing that i had to modify was the the grabber because tv_grab_sn was not found, but tv_grab_se was, so i soft linked to it.
Code:
# whereis tv_grab_se
'the directory was prompted'
# cd ' to the directory i got'
#ln -s tv_grab_se tv_grab_sn
XMLTV grab the channels and
Code:
#mythfilldatabase --manual
fills the DB.
Then i wanted to see how the video capture was doing, so i did:
Code:
# Set PAL video standard
test_ioctl -u 0xff
# Select TV input
test_ioctl -p 4
# Set full PAL resolution
test_ioctl -f width=720,height=576
# Select channel
ptune.pl -f pal-europe -c E5
ptune failed so i was forced to read some info about the debian apt-get "ports", as i used to call them in FreeBSD and did:
Code:
apt-get install libconfig-inifiles-perl.
I wroted the ptune command again and it went acceptable, so i did:
Code:
# capture...
cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg
I got the card working, the quality of the video was very good, but there was no sound. I tested the following:
Code:
#test_ioctl -y mute=0
#test_ioctl -v input=2,output=1
#test_ioctl -y volume=60000
But the result was the same: no sound! when i did:
Code:
cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg
I realised that the module msp3400.o wasnt doing this job, so there was no other alternative to compile a new one.
I read in this forum the solution:
Code:
cd /usr/src
# The ivtv compile needs the src files.
tar xvfj linux-2.4.25-chw.tar.bz2
cd /usr/local/lib/ivtv/driver
make clean
# I suppose I could have used 'make install' but I was testing
# and didn't want to add to my problems.
make
cp msp3400.o /lib/modules/2.4.25-chw/kernel/drivers/media/video/
# And answer yes to overwrite the existing file.
# Then, if you don't like extra files just lying around:
cd /usr/src
rm -rfd linux-2.4.25-chw
# to delete the source files previously extracted
This is an standard procedure to compile drivers, nothing strange here. But KUDOS to the KnoppMyth Folks!
In /usr/src they put all the sources you can possibly need to compile the whole KnoppMyth WORLD! Thats a good thinking!
After that and a reload of the module (a reboot should work here as well),
the sound begins to work for ivtv. I had the music/dvd sound already working from the first boot if you are wondering.
The remote control of my card works as well to navigate thorugh the front end.
Here is a copy of the files i modified to make my system work:
file /etc/sysconfig/ivtv/cfg-0
# IVTV_TUNER is the tuner input selection value,
# if not set the Default of '0' will be used.
IVTV_TUNER='0'
# IVTV_TYPE is the type of the tuner. Possible values
# are NTSC or PAL. A default value of 'NTSC' will be used if
# this is not set.
IVTV_TYPE='PAL'
file /etc/mythtv/modules/ivtv
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-61 lirc_i2c
options ivtv ivtv_debug=1 ivtv_pal=1
options tuner type=28 #<-- insert what you found out earlier
options msp3400 once=1 simple=1 standard=0x8
options saa7127 enable_output=1 output_select=0 pal=1 #<- remove pal=1 for NTSC
add below ivtv msp3400 saa7115 saa7127 tuner
add above ivtv lirc_dev lirc_i2c ivtv-fb
Things that i have to work on it.
- Get the tv-out to work (the manual for this is in this frourm as well)
- Change the channels from my remote control where i am watching tv.
Keep up the great work guys!
Reg /T
This changed the OS distribution in my house!
I was:
Windows XP : 2 machines
NetBSD : 2
and now is:
NetBSD :2
GNU/Linux: 1
Windows XP: 1
We are going in the right direction!