[pvrusb2] mythtv and wintv-hvr-1950 - analog/digital scanning

[fivenote]

Thanks. I did repower the HVR-1950. See later emails in the thread...
Mike spotted the problem and thinks it's a code issue between the
pvrusb2 driver and other v4l drivers. He's looking into it.

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 12:45 PM,  <rja at firkraag.rogera.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Mike Isely wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, fivenote wrote:
>>
>>> OK... keeping things simple... :-)
>>>
>>> as root...
>>>
>>> * mythbackend off
>
> Just in case, have you cycled the power to the HVR-1950?
>
> Since it has it's own power supply, you need to unplug the power
> to the HVR-1950 and plug the power back in (after invoking
> whatever Deity/Deities you choose) for the HVR-1950 to completely
> reset itself.
>
> If the HVR-1950 got into an unusual state, it may take a cold boot
> for it to get out of it.
>
> You are probably doing this already, but since I haven't seen
> any emails stating it explicitly, I am bringing this up.
>
>>>
>>> * plug in HVR-1950, creates /dev/video0
>>>
>>> * enum_val shows all inputs - no narrowing
>>>
>>> * set cur_val to composite and attache video player to hvr-1950
>>>
>>> * cat /dev/video0 > /tmp/foo
>>>        stderr...
>>>            cat: /dev/video0: Input/output error
>>>        /tmp/foo...
>>>            empty
>>>        /var/log/syslog...
>>>            Jan  6 21:00:39 vao1420 kernel: [ 3031.735288] pvrusb2:
>>> WARNING: No decoder present
>>
>> Bingo.  Why I didn't ask you to look at the log before is beyond me :-(
>
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> Roger J. Allen                                     rja {at] rogera.net
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