[opensuse] Troubles getting TV to work, need help!
I have upgraded my media center to SuSE11.2, KDE4.4.1 and am having a number of problems getting various applications to work. (And yes I realize I may be out on the bleeding edge but I upgraded so as to have a better control over the new desktop/activities/plasmoids that are being hatched) So in this thread I would like to get help with getting my Hauppauge PVR-350 TV card back up and working. It has worked in past versions of SuSE, and still does under Windoz XP. Ultimately my goal will be to get MythTV up and running but I am trying to get there by taking small incremental steps... Since the driver for this card is an IVTV I figured a good first step would be to get things working and the TV signal from my satellite settop box displayed in one of the dedicated TV apps. I used YaST to configure the TV card, and it detected the card just fine, and even when I did a channel scan it correctly reported that the only two channels (60 and 62 from a DishNetwork box) had a valid signal. So far so good... But neither tvtime, xawtv or mythTV will display a thing. tvtime reports an error - ivtv - invalid argument, cannot open capture device /dev/video0 I then tried to follow the ivtv.install instructions on how to test (rather hairy and I got lost) but tried the following command - cat /dev/video0 > my.mpg cntl-C after a few seconds mplayer my.mpg (got a few errors about missing lirc files, which I have not addressed yet. Figured I would set up lirc later...) Playing my.mpg Seek failed Exiting (End of file) So.... Where do I go from here? I suspect I probably am missing something simple or that I discovered in a past incarnation... Thanks in advance for any and all offers of help! Marc.. -- Marc Chamberlin www.marcchamberlin.com A man said unto the universe - "Sir I Exist!" "However" replied the universe "I do not see where that creates in me a sense of an obligation" S Crane.
Am Donnerstag 25 März 2010 05:23:14 schrieb Marc Chamberlin:
I have upgraded my media center to SuSE11.2, KDE4.4.1 and am having a number of problems getting various applications to work. (And yes I realize I may be out on the bleeding edge but I upgraded so as to have a better control over the new desktop/activities/plasmoids that are being hatched) So in this thread I would like to get help with getting my Hauppauge PVR-350 TV card back up and working. It has worked in past versions of SuSE, and still does under Windoz XP. Ultimately my goal will be to get MythTV up and running but I am trying to get there by taking small incremental steps...
Since the driver for this card is an IVTV I figured a good first step would be to get things working and the TV signal from my satellite settop box displayed in one of the dedicated TV apps. I used YaST to configure the TV card, and it detected the card just fine, and even when I did a channel scan it correctly reported that the only two channels (60 and 62 from a DishNetwork box) had a valid signal. So far so good...
But neither tvtime, xawtv or mythTV will display a thing. tvtime reports an error - ivtv - invalid argument, cannot open capture device /dev/video0
I then tried to follow the ivtv.install instructions on how to test (rather hairy and I got lost) but tried the following command -
cat /dev/video0 > my.mpg
cntl-C after a few seconds
mplayer my.mpg (got a few errors about missing lirc files, which I have not addressed yet. Figured I would set up lirc later...)
Playing my.mpg Seek failed Exiting (End of file)
So.... Where do I go from here? I suspect I probably am missing something simple or that I discovered in a past incarnation... Thanks in advance for any and all offers of help!
Marc..
Have ever worked with tv-Viewer in collaboration with mplayer.Install ivtv stuff with yast followed by tv-viewer. It is a special solution for ivtv cards. My PVR-250-TV works fine, and your 350 should as well. http://home.arcor.de/saedelaere/index_eng.html Kind regards Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 21:23 -0700, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
I have upgraded my media center to SuSE11.2, KDE4.4.1 and am having a number of problems getting various applications to work. (And yes I realize I may be out on the bleeding edge but I upgraded so as to have a better control over the new desktop/activities/plasmoids that are being hatched) So in this thread I would like to get help with getting my Hauppauge PVR-350 TV card back up and working. It has worked in past versions of SuSE, and still does under Windoz XP. Ultimately my goal will be to get MythTV up and running but I am trying to get there by taking small incremental steps...
Since the driver for this card is an IVTV I figured a good first step would be to get things working and the TV signal from my satellite settop box displayed in one of the dedicated TV apps. I used YaST to configure the TV card, and it detected the card just fine, and even when I did a channel scan it correctly reported that the only two channels (60 and 62 from a DishNetwork box) had a valid signal. So far so good...
But neither tvtime, xawtv or mythTV will display a thing. tvtime reports an error - ivtv - invalid argument, cannot open capture device /dev/video0
I then tried to follow the ivtv.install instructions on how to test (rather hairy and I got lost) but tried the following command -
cat /dev/video0 > my.mpg
cntl-C after a few seconds
mplayer my.mpg (got a few errors about missing lirc files, which I have not addressed yet. Figured I would set up lirc later...)
Playing my.mpg Seek failed Exiting (End of file)
So.... Where do I go from here? I suspect I probably am missing something simple or that I discovered in a past incarnation... Thanks in advance for any and all offers of help!
When I encountered this it was due to having the v4l devices switch which device they were using,. I have a webcam and the PVR-150, resolving that issue helped me debug myth under 11.1. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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