[pvrusb2] Hauppauge WinTV PVR USB2

[Asif Iqbal]

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Mike Isely <isely at isely.net> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 14 May 2010, Asif Iqbal wrote:
>
>> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:26 AM, Asif Iqbal <vadud3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I just bought a hauppauge wintv pvr usb2. When I plugged it into my
>> > ubuntu 10.04 I got all the indication that
>> > the device is recognized
>> >
>> > http://pastie.org/private/aatmacucv2qenp2qk95pfq
>> >
>> > I have the camcorder running into the composite input.
>> >
>> > I were able to only once get video with vlc
>> >
>> >   vlc stream:///dev/video0
>> >
>> > found the trick on http://www.isely.net/pvrusb2/usage.html. Thanks Mike Isely!
>> >
>> > After that the same vlc stream only giving a green screen.
>> >
>> > Am I experiencing any bug?
>> >
>> > And I definitely not getting any audio. I have both RCA input (L/R) going into
>> > the PVR but only one coming RCA output (L) coming out from camcorder.
>>
>> I am running
>>
>> iqbala at ghar-iqbala:~$ uname -a
>> Linux ghar-iqbala 2.6.32-22-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 28 13:27:30
>> UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
>>
>
> Asif:
>
> You didn't say which kind of device you purchased however I see from the

http://www.amazon.com/Hauppauge-WinTV-PVR-USB-Tuner-Personal-Video-Recorder/dp/B0000AL8XX/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1274056344&sr=8-1

> link you provided with the kernel log output that it's one of the
> original 29032 devices.  That's fine; it should work.  I have in fact
> recently tested and verified that it *still* works, provided you don't
> get burned by the first problem in this list:
>
> http://www.isely.net/pvrusb2/pvrusb2.html#Bugs
>
> However what you describe definitely does not sound like that
> initialization issue so I can't suggest what is going wrong there.  If
> you got it to work once, it should work every single time.  In addition,
> if you are getting video then the sound should be good as well.  Way

/dev/video0 gave the audio that one time it worked. what would be the
sound device?
should it be /dev/dsp. I will try to see if that has any audio.

> back when xawtv was routinely used, it would mute the audio output on
> exit - which could cause confusion later.  You might want to check that
> the audio isn't muted (look at the sysfs control for that).
>
> The only other thing I can think of is that the hardware defective, but
> having that happen is pretty rare - the only hardware issues I've
> really heard of over the years involve overheating the device and
> in that case it will usually completely crash.
>
>  -Mike
>
>
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