Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 07:59:22 -0500 From: Saul A Peebsen <jaglover@gmail.com> Cc: <freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: MythTV backend - any hope to get my PVR-250 working? Message-ID: <20110416075922.7ec8dc35@zeus.saul.homeunix.org> In-Reply-To: <4c5558d4033458d88030ac02ab508bbd@bluelife.at> References: <20110415065522.30e8d9be@zeus.saul.homeunix.org> <4c5558d4033458d88030ac02ab508bbd@bluelife.at>
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On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:38:50 +0200 Bernhard Froehlich <decke@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 06:55:22 -0500, Saul A Peebsen wrote: > > I have an always on FreeBSD box which I thought would also serve as > > MythTV backend. After looking at http://wiki.freebsd.org/MythTV I > > figured it's a piece of cake and bought a PVR-250. > > Now I'm confused because MythTV does not find the card. > > > > After installing multimedia/pvr250 device node cxm0 is created, but > > that's the only one. I can cat the stream out of it and watch the > > default channel but that's it. > > > > The card is: > > Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 > > (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01) > > > > Is there any hope it would work after some fiddling or I just better > > ditch the whole idea? > > Don't know exactly about PVR-250 cards but pvrxxx is currently a > problem and known to fail since MythTV 0.22. I've tried to narrow down > the problem with Torfinn Ingolfsen for pvrxxx but could not find a > solution. Can you please also put the following patch into > /usr/ports/multimedia/mythtv/files/ and reinstall mythtv. After that > try to configure the card and send me the mythbackend.log file please. > > http://home.bluelife.at/patches/patch-libs__libmythtv__mpegrecorder.cpp > Well, did that. After trying configure and specifying manually /dev/cxm0 ... http://saul.homeunix.org:8000/tmp/mythbackend.log Does not look very promising, methinks? Let me ask, is multimedia/pvr250 supposed to create just one node [cxm] or there is supposed to be more? -- Cheers, Saul
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