[pvrusb2] Snapshot 20060329 Report ....SUCCESS...follow up

[Mike Isely]

Looks like the xawtv problem might not be specific to the new hardware, 
given what xavier is seeing.

As for the rest of it - glad to hear you have it all working.  I'm still 
seeing a stability problem involving cx25840, but I'd prefer that _I_ be 
the one having that problem rather than you :-)

   -Mike


On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Barry Jett wrote:

> Mike and all,
>
> I've had a few days to play with the last two snapshots for the 2040:2400
> device. While I am using the 20060329 snapshot all below applies for the
> 20060326 snapshot as well.
>
> For clarity, I've summarized the previous exchange :
>
> Xawtv 4.0
>
> - no luck yet, still getting mpeg2 timeout in 3 seconds message. I've got
> some dmesg files
>  I'll send in a separate email.
>
> Mplayer /dev/video0
>
> - works great !  The sound problem was as you stated, Mike.  Xawtv was
> muting the audio.
>  Software needs a "did_you_completely_read_the_faqs=1" flag
>
> - mplayer provides full support for the filters on live tv, like
> deinterlacing filters. I use
>  mplayer -vf pp=lb /dev/video0  and get a pretty darn good picture.
> Control inputs/channels
>  through Xawtv brought up alongside, or /sys/class/pvrusb2......
>
>
> Mythtv-0.19
>
> - total joy !  The previous problem : Been working 7 12's for a month and
> let my
>                 zap2it account expire....hence no channels found  (duh).
>
> - pvrusb2 works flawlessly in mythtv ... no problems encountered.
>
>
> VLC
>
> - I've really learned to love this program.  Seems to work on everything
> and,
>  with the wizard, you can have streaming video effortlessly.
>
> - works great with pvrusb2...d/l the latest source and compile with the pvr
>  option.
>
>
> Thanks again for the great work, Mike.
>
> Barry jett
>
>

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