How do I tune and watch TV (IVTV) ?

cawill · 2007-12-20 18:21:57

I have a Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150 and have installed ivtv-utils.

I'm assuming the card gets detected correctly.

dmesg | grep ivtv
ivtv:  Start initialization, version 1.0.0
ivtv0: Initializing card #0
ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge card (cx23416 based)
ivtv0: Loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (376836 bytes)
ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02060039
ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150
tuner 1-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
tuner 1-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
cx25840 1-0044: cx25843-24 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
wm8775 1-001b: chip found @ 0x36 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
ivtv0: Registered device video0 for encoder MPEG (4 MB)
ivtv0: Registered device video32 for encoder YUV (2 MB)
ivtv0: Registered device vbi0 for encoder VBI (1 MB)
ivtv0: Registered device video24 for encoder PCM audio (1 MB)
ivtv0: Registered device radio0 for encoder radio
ivtv0: Initialized card #0: Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150
ivtv:  End initialization

Tv is at /dev/v4l/video0
and theres video24 and video 32

I can and have in the past set it up using mythtv but I want to use something more lightweight like mplayer or vlc if possible.
So how can I tune this card and watch tv using vlc or mplayer?

Thanks, Chris.

sebleblanc · 2007-12-21 02:24:59

Easy!

In VLC, try "File>Open Capture Device".

A dialog should pop up. If you have a tuner card, press "advance" and select the appropriate channel. I also think you should set "Tuner" to 1.

Oh and about video24 and video32, I suppose they stand for the bit depth of each corresponding video. (video32 being 32bpp and video24 24bpp...)

Last edited by sebleblanc (2007-12-21 02:31:30)

3nd3r · 2007-12-21 02:29:36

[0:4:0][end3r@K8N-Neo4:pts/1][~] $ dmesg |grep ivtv
ivtv: Start initialization, version 1.0.0
ivtv0: Initializing card #0
ivtv0: Unknown card: vendor/device: 4444/0016
ivtv0: subsystem vendor/device: 1461/c019
ivtv0: cx23416 based
ivtv0: Defaulting to Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150 card
ivtv0: Please mail the vendor/device and subsystem vendor/device IDs and what kind of
ivtv0: card you have to the ivtv-devel mailinglist (www.ivtvdriver.org)
ivtv0: Prefix your subject line with [UNKNOWN CARD].
ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)
ivtv0: Unable to open firmware v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw (must be 376836 bytes)
ivtv0: Did you put the firmware in the hotplug firmware directory?
ivtv0: Retry loading firmware
ivtv0: Unable to open firmware v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw (must be 376836 bytes)
ivtv0: Did you put the firmware in the hotplug firmware directory?
ivtv0: Error initializing firmware
ivtv0: Error -19 on initialization
ivtv: End initialization
[0:4:0][end3r@K8N-Neo4:pts/1][~] $

^^ damn that sux =\

sebleblanc · 2007-12-21 02:35:12

3nd3r wrote:

ivtv0: Did you put the firmware in the hotplug firmware directory?

I assume you did not. You suggest looking up the PCI Vendor code for your tuner card on Google or something.

$ lspci -nn

PCI vendor codes are under the form [0000:0000], and they are after the device name.

For example:

$lspci wrote:

00:0f.0 IDE interface [0101]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller [1106:3149] (rev 80)

The PCI vendor for my chipset/RAID controller is 1106:3149. (1106 is the PCI_vendor, 3149 is the PCI_device)

Last edited by sebleblanc (2007-12-21 02:38:39)

3nd3r · 2007-12-21 02:37:16

in /lib/modules ? if thats where it is then yes...

sebleblanc · 2007-12-21 02:42:15

Oh! I did not notice it was in the log. Well, you'll know this command the next time you'll install unknown hardware!

Tried looking up Vendor "4444". It does not exist. You probably have some cheap Taiwan import card or something like that, don't you?

3nd3r · 2007-12-21 02:49:10

[0:1:0][root@K8N-Neo4:pts/1][DriverA2] # lspci
00:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller (rev a3)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 ISA Bridge (rev a3)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation CK804 SMBus (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a2)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a2)
00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 IDE (rev f2)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
---> 01:07.0 Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01) <---
01:09.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce 7600 GT] (rev a1)
[0:1:0][root@K8N-Neo4:pts/1][DriverA2] #

sebleblanc · 2007-12-21 02:56:35

ivtvdriver.org wrote:

Sony VAIO® GRT260G Model PCG-GRT260G. A user has reported that lspci lists an Internext Compression device, so the suspicion is currently that ivtv could be made to work on it. Though it currently does not! The video decoder and Audio ADC chips apparently are at the very least on different I2C addresses and also likely different. Sony calls their offering Giga Pocket PVR.

I think it is unsupported.

3nd3r · 2007-12-21 02:59:00

yea, well damn

ima find me a better card anyway, this one freezes alot in windows and it has never worked in Linux.

cawill · 2007-12-21 10:11:47

I've used vlc with capture device, it seems to try to play something with no video,

I'm away from my computer for the next 2 days, but I'll try again when I can.

Once I'm in vlc, how do I change channels?

Thanks, Chris.

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How do I tune and watch TV (IVTV) ?

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