[pvrusb2] Can't get Hauppauge HVR-1950 to work

[Mike Isely]

On Sat, 15 Nov 2008, Lars Maersk wrote:

> Please excuse my overenthusiasm here, I might be jumping to the wrong
> conclusions. After playing for a long time, I got again the broken frames
> error. I checked dmesg and I'm seeing this:
> 
> cx25840' 1-0044: 0x0000 is not a valid video input!

In digital mode that message is harmless.  It's also harmless if the 
device isn't streaming (once it starts streaming the video input will be 
set).

> firmware: requesting v4l-cx25840.fw

> cx25840' 1-0044: loaded v4l-cx25840.fw firmware (12559 bytes)
> pvrusb2: ***WARNING*** device's encoder appears to be stuck
> (status=0x00000003)
> pvrusb2: Encoder command: 0x82
> pvrusb2: Giving up on command.  This is normally recovered by the driver.
> firmware: requesting v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw
> pvrusb2: ***WARNING*** device's encoder appears to be stuck
> (status=0x00000003)
> pvrusb2: Encoder command: 0x81
> pvrusb2: Giving up on command.  This is normally recovered by the driver.
> firmware: requesting v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw
> pvrusb2: ***WARNING*** device's encoder appears to be stuck
> (status=0x00000003)
> pvrusb2: Encoder command: 0x81
> pvrusb2: Giving up on command.  This is normally recovered by the driver.
> firmware: requesting v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw
> pvrusb2: ***WARNING*** device's encoder appears to be stuck
> (status=0x00000003)
> pvrusb2: Encoder command: 0x81
> pvrusb2: Giving up on command.  This is normally recovered by the driver.
> firmware: requesting v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw

Over what interval of time does the above happen?  Seconds?  Minutes?  
Hours?  See my other reply about those messages.

> 
> After resetting the media player and a couple of minutes later:
> 
> cx25840' 1-0044: 0x0000 is not a valid video input!
> firmware: requesting v4l-cx25840.fw
> cx25840' 1-0044: loaded v4l-cx25840.fw firmware (12559 bytes)

> s5h1411_writereg: writereg error 0x19 0xf5 0x0000, ret == -5)
> s5h1411_writereg: writereg error 0x19 0xf4 0x0001, ret == -5)

I've never seen these messages before (s5h1411 errors).  Those do not 
come from the pvrusb2 driver (likely instead the tuner module).  This 
might be suggestive of a real hardware problem :-(


> cx25840' 1-0044: 0x0000 is not a valid video input!
> firmware: requesting v4l-cx25840.fw
> cx25840' 1-0044: loaded v4l-cx25840.fw firmware (12559 bytes)
> cx25840' 1-0044: 0x0000 is not a valid video input!
> 

Have you tried exercising the device under Windows?  (Are you able to 
try it under Windows?)

  -Mike

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