Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 21:20:24 -0700 From: Stacy Million <stacy@Millions.Ca> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Hauppauge PVR-[23]50 driver Message-ID: <400F4F88.8040603@millions.ca>
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Gave this driver a spin back in Dec (with my shiny new pvr-350), it didn't work due to an unkown tuner type. So I thought to my self, "Self, lets give linux and mythtv a go... is supposed to work relatively easily"... ya right! It got to the point where I was wondering around the house muttering "Nasty, nasty linuxes. Hates them we do, hmmm, precious?" :-) So, I'm back to the freebsd driver. A quick hack job to make it recognise the tuner (wild ass guess as to the type) and it bombs on unknown audio decoder (BTW, both of these errors cause a panic... not nice). So I fix that, well, actually I removed the check "honest, you know what it is". And, low and behold, I'm capturing video... and sound.... and it plays in mplayer.... looking good... but (you knew there had to be one) the driver hangs after a while, a while being => 30 minutes. Which, by the way, is better then linux ever did. The best I got out of linux was 15 minutes. If I noticed the hang and interupted the capture, I would get cxm0: missing encoder EOS encoder dma already in progress if I left it running I would get cxm0: timeout The linux ivtv driver has problems with some Hauppauge cards and dma and it looks like the FreeBSD driver has inherited them. At this point, I'm open to suggestions. I'm debating between starting to debug the driver or porting it to CURRENT. I would rather have this driver working on CURRENT, since I have made my desktop (where I have the card) boot CURRENT by default but I'm not sure how much interest other FreeBSDers have in this... I personally would love to see something like MythTV running on FreeBSD, but I'm not able to carry it on my own. I guess I'm asking the same thing John did when he posted his driver... are there others who want to help out or am I on my own? -stacy
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