[pvrusb2] driver status / update

[Mike Isely]

On Thu, 15 Jan 2009, fivenote wrote:

> I pulled from Hans' tree, compiled and installed the drivers.
> 
> Using sysfs I could set cur_val to television and successfully 'cat
> /dev/video0'. mplayer also opened the card and was picking up a stream
> but all I got was a blank mplayer window. When I tried to setup the
> analog card in myth setup, it couldn't open the card and this showed
> in syslog when it tried...

If you can cat /dev/video0 and get a valid stream then the driver is 
working.  If mplayer still displays blank video on /dev/video0 then 
you've got mplayer set up wrong (or there's some kind of problem with 
mplayer).  What happens if you do this:

  cat /dev/video0 >/tmp/foo.mpg
  # Wait a little while then hit ^C
  mplayer /tmp/foo.mpg

Do you get useable video in that case?


> 
> Jan 15 22:27:05 vaohybrid kernel: [10783.878071] firmware: requesting
> v4l-cx25840.fw
> Jan 15 22:27:07 vaohybrid kernel: [10785.566434] cx25840' 0-0044:
> loaded v4l-cx25840.fw firmware (12559 bytes)

> Jan 15 22:27:18 vaohybrid kernel: [10796.169487] cx25840' 0-0044:
> 0x0000 is not a valid video input!

When the HVR-1950 is in digital mode, the cx25840 is not used.  At those 
times it could potentially be fed an invalid input routing.  I've known 
about this for a while, but it's completely benign (and not trivial to 
fix) so I haven't done anything about it.

  -Mike

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