Hi,
I am new user of MythTV and was originally using an ATI TV Wonder PCI but after reading reviews I decided to buy a WinTV PVR 250. It turns out to be a Model 980 which sports a different Conexant Chip (iTVC16). Now when I start up the box it cannot initialize the /dev/video because the card is not being recognized. The log is showing this line when trying to load the car.

Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc: Unknown device 0016 (rev 01)

Does anyone have any ideas on what I need to update if there is one out there?

Any help will be greatly appreciated. I am very new to the Linux system but am loving it so far.

Thanks

The output from lspci is accurate. Have you tried capturing video or watching tv?

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cesman

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Later in the log is says that is cannot initialize /dev/bttv and when I try within MythTV to load the TV viewer it crashes completely. So I haven't successfully viewed or recorded TV.

There is no /dev/bttv. Did you configure the system properly? Perhaps browsing the MythTV docs would help?

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Is the log generated as a file? I was just thinking I could post a bit of it here to help diagnose the problem?

Yes, the log is in /var/log/mythtv/. Did you check the MythTV docs? Posting a log with invalid configuration will only show a invalid configuration. Your tuner should be /dev/videoX.

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Cesman,

I believe this is the same issue I am having... I had (after the fresh install) to yank it or the system would not load video. I then replaced it with a WinTV (which I cant use ... slowwwww) and am not sure how to tackle the PVR250 topic.

I have another in my MCE system I am going to pull and see if the chip-set performs differently.

Let me know if u have any advice.

Thanks

I too make a model 980 PVR-250 and have no issues w/ it. What chipset does your motherboard have? Have you tried a different PCI slot? Again /dev/bttv is invalid. Have you corrected your configuration?

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cesman

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I am re-installing th cd right now. so hopefully I will have some info.

I swapped the one from my MCE System - it is the PVR250 with the CompositeIN and Svideo - the other only has Svideo input.

I am not getting video at all from the cable signal - but wonder if I need to clean some old data out. I did per the login have it clean the old stuff (yes) to answers 1 & 2 .... but no video.

I still need to tweak but truly think I am hung now. I am black-screened with no way to exit - its more than jsut a black tv screen I believe.

After a new install I am not getting the /dev/bttv errors at all so that is good. But when I try to start the TV option it kills the MythTV running and when I restart it and try TV again it says it cannot connect with the Backend Server. I have also edited the .fvwmr2c file that the forum notes to edit. Any Ideas?

kolemieux are you able to get to a text prompt by hitting Ctrl-Alt-F1 ???

I forgot to add it does seem to see this card in the startup log passing thru the screen, the other it did not - It is referring to it as an Intertext iTVC15 MPEG Encoder....

Did you configure MythTV? With nothing in the db, you cannot watch TV. Search the forum, this question has been answered many times.

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When I fresh installing, something was going wrong - and NO I could not. I needed to narrow it down and found it was the PVR250 causing a dead black screen with a blinking cursor in the upper left.

I now have the differnt PVR250 in the box, I can load fine - but when I try to get to LiveTV I get the blackscreen (with hang) but no blinking cursor.

With a basic WinTV card, I got TV picture but as typical its pitiful with no Hardware compression offload - I could not go that route.

I was very very surprised by this as so so many people seem to be having ZERO issue with the PVR250? I was not expecting that.

Still plgguing away here