WinTV PVR-350 Success with Mythtv & Mplayer (at last)
For those of you who have asked about the PVR-350 (I have seen a number of emails on the list) I have finally gotten it to work. Here are some pointers. Forget about using Yast, hardware, tv card except to recognize the card and install it. Tuner and scan tv channels does not work. The PVR-350 actually outputs an mpeg file from /dev/video0. First of all, with the Suse 10.0 default install of ivtv, etc, I never got it to work. I uninstalled the ivtv via Yast and done a rmmod ivtv, then downloaded the ivtv-0.4.2.tar.gz from ivtvdriver.org. Extracted it, done a make, make install, then depmod -ae. I downloaded the latest firmware also from the site and done a ./ivtvfwextract (located in the ivtv-0.4.2 directory.) on the exe file with the firmware in it. It puts them in /lib/modules. I moved them to the /lib/firmware directory (this is in the path for the hotplug per /sbin/udev.firmware.sh) I also had to copy a v4l-cl2341x-init.mpeg file from the ivtv-0.4.2 directory to the /lib/firmware directory. So you need 3 files in the /lib/firmware directory: v4l-cl2341x-init.mpeg v4l-cx2341x-dec.fw v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw I installed the perl modules and compiled per the http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Ptune-ui web site and copied the ptune-ui.pl to my home directory. I can execute it and then change the channels to test it etc instead of the ivtv-tune. Much easier. Ran modprobe ivtv, then dmesg | grep ivtv to check if it installed OK. Executed the ./ptune-ui.pl, set for NTSC cable, and the channel. You can then go to Konqueror, browse to /dev/video0, right-click, and open with Mplayer under multimedia, video players. It should work. I installed Mythtv from the http://folk.uio.no/oeysteio/apt/suse/10.0-olsen/RPMS.Olsen/ site. It has suse rpms for everything. You can set this site up with the yast installation sources and install the rpms with yast. After installing the rpms, follow the http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Documentation General Purpose Howto then the Suse howto also listed. Setup the mysql database per the mythtv site, and then done the mythtv-setup. Important item here that caused me headache was that you have to select the PVR-250/350 mpeg card. I was selecting v4l tuner0. User interface on the program is terrible, you have to use the up/down arrow keys to select the field and the right/left arrows to select within the field. Still have some to go to get it finished, but at least I have video. Hopefully I did not make any mistakes as it took several weeks of trial and error to get it working, but the above is basically what I ended up doing to get it working. Although it is brief, hope this helps someone. If anyone has any questions, they can post them on the list and I will try to answer them. Art
Art Fore wrote:
For those of you who have asked about the PVR-350 (I have seen a number of emails on the list) I have finally gotten it to work. Here are some pointers.
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Although it is brief, hope this helps someone. If anyone has any questions, they can post them on the list and I will try to answer them.
Art
Hello Art, Don't have any questions but plan to archive this email for future reference. It you get everything under mythtv working maybe you could write a final HOW-TO (or does one already exist?). I'm currently using an old WinTV card and plan to update to a PVR-250 or -350 in hopes of setting up a "TiVo" type system. Terry -- SUSE LINUX 10.0 (i586) -- 2.6.13-15.7-default -- Sun 02/05/06 12:15pm up 6 days 23:30, 3 users, load average: 0.61, 0.16, 0.11
On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 12:23 -0600, Terry Eck wrote:
Art Fore wrote:
For those of you who have asked about the PVR-350 (I have seen a number of emails on the list) I have finally gotten it to work. Here are some pointers.
...
Although it is brief, hope this helps someone. If anyone has any questions, they can post them on the list and I will try to answer them.
Art
Hello Art,
Don't have any questions but plan to archive this email for future reference. It you get everything under mythtv working maybe you could write a final HOW-TO (or does one already exist?). I'm currently using an old WinTV card and plan to update to a PVR-250 or -350 in hopes of setting up a "TiVo" type system.
Terry
-- SUSE LINUX 10.0 (i586) -- 2.6.13-15.7-default -- Sun 02/05/06 12:15pm up 6 days 23:30, 3 users, load average: 0.61, 0.16, 0.11
Maybe I can do a howto since I just became unemployed, although my wife probably has a lot for me to do. Another note, you need a fairly good video card, otherwise, the video will be jerky. Have a MSI K8MM-V board with onboard video. Upgraded to an nvidia card fixed the problem. Art
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