I've just received my new PVR-500 card and have it happily installed and working with ivtv 0.9 (svn)
I figure since the FM radio is only available on the 1st encoder, I'll have to dedicate VDR recording tasks to the 2nd encoder and leave the first for general purpose TV watching and radio listening. Unless I can cut off the FM radio if the recorder needs that adapter?
Will I need to maintain duplicate channel entries in channels.conf for each device - so I can select one or the other for recording or watching? I guess the best way to do this is prefix the ones I want to record on, and avoid using them when general channel surfing.
I'm also not sure how to handle epg. At the moment I use xmltv and xmltv2vdr.pl to import epg. I'm guessing I'll also need to have duplicate epg for each tuner? Is there a way I can use VDR with a single epg, but just select an adapter based on availability?
This machine will sit in my basement with the PVR-500, DVB-T card and a DVB-S card
Can anyone offer any advice?
An update...
I'm trying to get my PAL PVR-500 working in a non-PAL country. May sound weird, but I'm preparing to move back to New Zealand.
Although I won't be able to watch anything now, I should be able to do some basic tests shouldn't I?
I've set up VDR with the pvrinput plugin, and think I've worked out the answer to my question below regarding how to support multiple devices. Is this achieved by having channels.conf entries with duplicate transport stream IDs?
Channels.conf: KOMO:67250:I999C0:C:0:301:300:0:A1:12003:1:1089:0 KOMO:67250:I999C12:C:0:301:300:0:A1:12003:1:1089:0 KING:77250:I999C0:C:0:301:300:0:A1:12003:1:1090:0 KING:77250:I999C12:C:0:301:300:0:A1:12003:1:1090:0
correct?
Also. I'm able to watch the static (hmm, exciting!) but am unable to record. I get the following:
Record: pvrinput: 11:39:58 cPvrDevice::ProvidesChannel 1 4 KOMO 67250 50 BFF119BB pvrinput: 11:39:58 cPvrDevice::ProvidesSource C pvrinput: 11:39:58 cPvrDevice::ProvidesCa 1 4 KOMO 161 pvrinput: 11:39:58 cPvrDevice::ProvidesCa 1 4 KOMO 161 pvrinput: 11:39:58 cPvrDevice::ProvidesChannel 1 4 KOMO 67250 50 BFF119BB pvrinput: 11:39:58 cPvrDevice::ProvidesSource C pvrinput: 11:39:58 cPvrDevice::ProvidesCa 1 4 KOMO 161 pvrinput: 11:39:58 cPvrDevice::ProvidesCa 1 4 KOMO 161 pvrinput: 11:39:58 cPvrDevice::SetChannelDevice 1 4 KOMO 67250 0 pvrinput: 11:39:58 VIDIOC_S_STD failed, 16:Device or resource busy pvrinput: 11:39:58 cPvrDevice::SetChannelDevice 1 4 KOMO 67250 0 pvrinput: 11:39:58 VIDIOC_S_STD failed, 16:Device or resource busy pvrinput: 11:39:58 cPvrDevice::SetChannelDevice 1 4 KOMO 67250 0 pvrinput: 11:39:58 VIDIOC_S_STD failed, 16:Device or resource busy pvrinput: 11:39:58 cPvrDevice::SetPid 301 5 0 pvrinput: 11:39:58 cPvrDevice::SetPid 300 6 0 pvrinput: 11:39:58 cPvrDevice::CloseDvr Wed Nov 15 11:39:58 PST 2006 restarting VDR
This is what the logging says when VDR starts: Startup: pvrinput: 11:39:05 Detected input 0: Tuner 1 pvrinput: 11:39:05 Error setting vbi embedded mode, 22:Invalid argument pvrinput: 11:39:05 Error setting vbi mode, 22:Invalid argument pvrinput: 11:39:05 IVTV_IOC_G_CODEC failed, 22:Invalid argument pvrinput: 11:39:06 Detected input 0: Tuner 1 pvrinput: 11:39:06 IVTV_IOC_G_CODEC failed, 22:Invalid argument pvrinput: 11:39:06 found 2 PVR devices pvrinput: 11:39:06 cPvrDevice::ProvidesChannel 1 4 KOMO 67250 0 BFF1080B pvrinput: 11:39:06 cPvrDevice::ProvidesSource C pvrinput: 11:39:06 cPvrDevice::ProvidesCa 1 4 KOMO 161 pvrinput: 11:39:06 cPvrDevice::ProvidesCa 1 4 KOMO 161 pvrinput: 11:39:06 cPvrDevice::ProvidesChannel 1 4 KOMO 67250 0 BFF1080B pvrinput: 11:39:06 cPvrDevice::ProvidesSource C pvrinput: 11:39:06 cPvrDevice::ProvidesCa 1 4 KOMO 161 pvrinput: 11:39:06 cPvrDevice::ProvidesCa 1 4 KOMO 161 pvrinput: 11:39:06 cPvrDevice::SetChannelDevice 1 4 KOMO 67250 0 pvrinput: 11:39:06 Error setting vbi embedded mode, 22:Invalid argument pvrinput: 11:39:06 Error setting vbi mode, 22:Invalid argument pvrinput: 11:39:06 cPvrDevice::SetPid 301 5 1 pvrinput: 11:39:06 cPvrDevice::SetPid 300 6 1 pvrinput: 11:39:06 cPvrDevice::OpenDvr
Why am I getting IVTV_IOC_G_CODEC failed ??
Simon
I've just received my new PVR-500 card and have it happily installed and working with ivtv 0.9 (svn)
I figure since the FM radio is only available on the 1st encoder, I'll have to dedicate VDR recording tasks to the 2nd encoder and leave the first for general purpose TV watching and radio listening. Unless I can cut off the FM radio if the recorder needs that adapter?
Will I need to maintain duplicate channel entries in channels.conf for each device - so I can select one or the other for recording or watching? I guess the best way to do this is prefix the ones I want to record on, and avoid using them when general channel surfing.
I'm also not sure how to handle epg. At the moment I use xmltv and xmltv2vdr.pl to import epg. I'm guessing I'll also need to have duplicate epg for each tuner? Is there a way I can use VDR with a single epg, but just select an adapter based on availability?
This machine will sit in my basement with the PVR-500, DVB-T card and a DVB-S card
Can anyone offer any advice?
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pvrinput: 11:39:05 IVTV_IOC_G_CODEC failed, 22:Invalid argument pvrinput: 11:39:06 Detected input 0: Tuner 1 pvrinput: 11:39:06 IVTV_IOC_G_CODEC failed, 22:Invalid argument pvrinput: 11:39:06 found 2 PVR devices
It appears this is a problem with pvrinput plugin using the old IVTV_IOC_G_CODEC which is no longer supported in ivtv >0.8.0
Has anyone done any work on migrating this to the new v4l2 API to set mpeg codec settings (as per the v4l2 spec)??
Simon Baxter wrote:
I'm trying to get my PAL PVR-500 working in a non-PAL country. May sound weird, but I'm preparing to move back to New Zealand.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't NZ a PAL country? At least from what I know the Australian area is mostly using PAL.
Cheers,
Udo
Simon Baxter wrote:
I'm trying to get my PAL PVR-500 working in a non-PAL country. May sound weird, but I'm preparing to move back to New Zealand.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't NZ a PAL country? At least from what I know the Australian area is mostly using PAL.
Cheers,
Udo
Yeah it is, which is why I've just bought a PAL PVR-500 - I'm living in the USA now, but am moving home to NZ in a month.
ok, so I'm an idiot.
I've set up VDR with the pvrinput plugin, and think I've worked out the answer to my question below regarding how to support multiple devices. Is this achieved by having channels.conf entries with duplicate transport stream IDs?
Channels.conf: KOMO:67250:I999C0:C:0:301:300:0:A1:12003:1:1089:0 KOMO:67250:I999C12:C:0:301:300:0:A1:12003:1:1089:0 KING:77250:I999C0:C:0:301:300:0:A1:12003:1:1090:0 KING:77250:I999C12:C:0:301:300:0:A1:12003:1:1090:0
correct?
This is exactly how it's supposed to work. The same stream ID is given, so the channel is only listed once, but is available from 2 different devices.
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