Hi Hilary, There is a big difference between the WinTV-250 PVR and the WinTV-GO. The WinTV-GO DOES use the bttv drivers while the WinTV-250 PVR does not. I actually specifically went after the WinTV-GO specifically for this reason. By the way I use mplayer to. I am actually stuck on a copy I custom compiled a while back (MPlayer-1.0pre5-pm.2.athlon.rpm) running under SuSE 9.2 because I cannot get the newer versions of mpalyer to initialize the capture card properly, SuSE 9.3 doesn't seem to come with the proper libraries, and I have been trying to avoid dependency hell. I have noticed under SuSE 9.2 and mplayer 1.0pre5 that if I first access the TV card under XawTV, close, and then open under mplayer 1.0pre5 it will work properly. Doing this on a mid range system (Athlon XP 3200) with filtering and encoding options up the ying yang yields results that are quite nice. I would like to hack a more recent version of mplayer to play well with TV tuners if I can find the time to do so. If you want to use the WinTV-250 PVR (mpeg2 encoder based as opposed to raw feed) you may want to check out MythTV. I have been reading on their website that they have been working on control modules for these types of cards. --Jason Snyder-- On Friday 27 May 2005 10:49, Hilary Hertzoff wrote:
On Fri, 27 May 2005, Jason Snyder wrote:
Hi William, I had a similar problem with my WinTV-GO under SuSE 9.3 along with a lot of other hardware and general stability problems that were all tied to the same thing: ACPI. Here are a couple of things to look into:
The problem is that these don't use the bttv module.
I have a Hauppauge WinTV-250.
While SuSE have installed the kernel module (IVTV), it (a) dosen't show up in YaST and (b) installs the firmware it needs to operate in the wrong directory.
To get it working I had to do the following steps: 1. Copy the firmware modules from /etc/modules to /etc/firmware - these are the files ivtv-fw-enc.bin and ivtv-fw-decode.bin
2. Do the following commands: lsmod (if ivtv shows up on the list skip to 3) modprobe ivtv depmod
3. Test it: cat /dev/video0 > my.mpg
4. If this works you can add /sbin/modprobe ivtv to your boot script. If this doesn't work, there's more information at http://ivtv.writeme.ch/tiki-index.php
Oh and if you can get one of these cards working in any of the included tv programs, please let me know. I've been running it in MPlayer using a script from the tar download to change channels which isn't ideal (and a pain in the neck to get running).
Good Luck Hilary
Hilary L. Hertzoff From here to there, Mamaroneck Public Library a bunny goes where a bunny must. Mamaroneck, NY - Little Bunny on the Move hhertzof@panix.com by Peter McCarty