[vdr] Re: Only black screen with VDR, Hauppauge PVR-250 and analogTV-plugin0.9.14 (0.9.21,CVS-snapshot) ?

[Karsten Müller <kmu@ratio.de>]

Once again, hi folks...

I finally managed to get the VDR to work with the analog-TV plugin
(CVS 2003-11-16)... for a few minutes. After some time (varies from
a few seconds and up to an hour)  the picture freezes and the plugin
seems to be gone :-(  Even switching to another (digital) channel
and back leaves the screen black. Only restarting the VDR brings
everything to life again. Since I don't have to reload neither the DVB
nor the ivtv modules so I suspect the communication between the plugin
and the driver(s) is broken which the plugin doesn't seem to notice...

I also tried to record an analog channel but that reliably "kills"
communication after a few seconds all the time which results in a
complete VDR restart :-(

Is there anybody else who experienced this odd behaviour of the analogTV
plugin ? Even better is there anybody who has found a solution for
this problem or who could give me a hint where to dig ?

BTW: Using the very latest CVS ivtv driver reproducably crashes my whole
    machine everytime...

Anyone ?

PS: If anybody is interested in the channels.conf.analogue for Hamburg
   (maybe Andreas Kool?), I attached it below... (I left out channels
   which are also available digitally)

:Analog
RTL:175250:B6C0D45:C:0:160:80:0:32001:46:0:0:rtl.de
RTL 2:154250:B6C0D45:C:0:160:80:0:32001:46:0:0:rtl2.de
Super RTL:335250:B6C0D45:C:0:160:80:0:32001:46:0:0:rtlsuper.de
Sat.1:182250:B6C0D45:C:0:160:80:0:32001:46:0:0:sat1.de
PRO 7:294250:B6C0D45:C:0:160:80:0:32001:46:0:0:pro7.de
Kabel 1:259250:B6C0D45:C:0:160:80:0:32001:46:0:0:kabel1.de
VOX:168250:B6C0D45:C:0:160:80:0:32001:46:0:0:vox.de
Hamburg 1:224250:B6C0D45:C:0:160:80:0:32001:46:0:0:0
VIVA:280250:B6C0D45:C:0:160:80:0:32001:46:0:0:viva.de
VIVA plus:126250:B6C0D45:C:0:160:80:0:32001:46:0:0:vivaplus.de
MTV Europe:147250:B6C0D45:C:0:160:80:0:32001:46:0:0:mtv.de
MTV 2:203250:B6C0D45:C:0:160:80:0:32001:46:0:0:mtv2pop.de
Onyx:303250:B6C0D45:C:0:160:80:0:32001:46:0:0:Onyx
n-tv:133250:B6C0D45:C:0:160:80:0:32001:46:0:0:n-tv.de
N24:311250:B6C0D45:C:0:160:80:0:32001:46:0:0:n24.de
DSF:287250:B6C0D45:C:0:160:80:0:32001:46:0:0:DSF
CNN:231250:B6C0D45:C:0:160:80:0:32001:46:0:0:cnn.de
QVC:252250:B6C0D45:C:0:160:80:0:32001:46:0:0:qvc.de
HSE24:422000:B6C0D45:C:0:160:80:0:32001:46:0:0:hse.de
Tele5:48250:B6C0D45:C:0:160:80:0:32001:46:0:0:tele5.de
9live:55250:B6C0D45:C:0:160:80:0:32001:46:0:0:9live.de
GigaTV:319250:B6C0D45:C:0:160:80:0:32001:46:0:0:CNBC

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with best regards
---
Karsten Mueller
Softwaredevelopment / Keyaccount Manager
RATIO Entwicklungen GmbH
Admiralitaetstr. 59
20459 Hamburg
Email: mailto:kmu@ratio.de


Karsten Müller wrote:

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> Hi again,
>
> On Thursday 13 November 2003 13:42, Jan Wagner wrote:
>
> > Am Don, 2003-11-13 um 10.42 schrieb Karsten Müller:
> >
> > > yesterday I got my Hauppauge PVR 250 and plugged it into my VDR. After
> > > some struggles with kernelversions, module dependencies and stuff I
> > > finally managed to load the module(s) without (visible) hiccups:
> > Hi
> >
> > the README says that PVR cards are supported since version 0.9.15. After
> > some struggles (thanks to Andreas again), I have a working PVR-250 with
> > 0.9.21.
> Oops, my README (0.9.14) told me, the card would be supported either... ?
> Anyway...
>
>
> > > What does that "Device or minor 0 not accepted" mean ?
> > I guess it means, that ivtv tries to register as this video device and
> > fails, because your 2 DVB-C have already registered as those devices.
> >
> >
> > > I load the DVB modules prior to the ivtv stuff so the PVR device should
> > > be /dev/video2 (I have 2 DVB-C cards)
> > > The Syslog output looks quite ok to me... But when I zap to any
> > > analogue channel, VDR "hangs" for a few seconds, stating:
> > The README to 0.9.21 says to load ivtv FIRST.
> I did, but then my machine crashed, so I didn't want to do that again ;-)
>
>
> > > Although I don't understand the "switching to channel 0 on device 0"
> > > and then "switching to channel 0 on device 4" the finally selected
> > > channel seems to be the one I zapped to (channel 159, SAT.1). As one
> > > can see I even get the EPG for that channel (looks like magic to me...?
> > > )
> > >
> > > If I do a "cat /dev/video2 > /tmp/blafasel.mpg", then "file" tells me:
> > >
> > > 	/tmp/blafasel.mpg: MPEG system stream data
> > >
> > > so I suspect the device itself is working. If I look at that file using
> > > mplayer I can see at least some "snow" like one gets on TV when no
> > > channel is tuned in.
> > That's further than I got for the first time ;-)
> >
> >
> > > Some additional background information:
> > > 	VDR		1.2.1
> > > 	analogTV	0.9.14
> > > 	PVR driver	CVS-LATEST as of November, 12th
> > > 	DVB cards	2x Siemens DVB-C
> > > 	PVR card	Hauppauge PVR-250
> > >
> > > Now my question is: What am I doing wrong, what did I miss ? How do I
> > > have to configure the analogTV plugin ? Do I have to pass additional
> > > commandline parameters to VDR ?
> > >
> > > Any help would be highly appreciated.
> > Well, upgrade to the latest ivtv (some patchwork needed), latest
> > analogtv and give it another try.
> >
> > Jan
> Thanks for the hints, I thought I already had the latest versions but I
> had not. 
> With the new version I managed to get a picture on my vdr screen but another
> problem showed up. The channels.conf from Hessen (of course) does not apply
> to the channels in Hamburg (where I live). Is there a method to kinda do a 
> channel scan (I don't have X on my VDR so unfortunately xawtv is not an
> option :-( ) Maybe anyone already has a channels.conf for Hamburg and 
> would be willing to post it to the list ?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
>
> - -- 
> with best regards
> - ---
> Karsten Mueller
> Softwaredevelopment / Keyaccount Manager
> RATIO Entwicklungen GmbH
> Admiralitaetstr. 59
> 20459 Hamburg
> Email: mailto:kmu@ratio.de
>
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