Hauppauge WinTV PVR 250 for FreeBSD 5.2

[Andreas Dahlén]

Sorry to reply to my own mail, but I've done some furter investigations

I got sound on some channels but not all, the one that I don't get sound
from are using Nicam stereo.  Do I need to do any special configuration
to get Nicam to work?

At least in Germany I read thatas an example video is sent on 112.25
Mhz, mono sound on 117.750 and stereo on 117.992.  I don't know if it's
the same inSweden, but could that have something to do with the problem
with no-sound?

/Andreas

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-multimedia at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-multimedia at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Andreas
Dahlén
Sent: den 23 mars 2004 13:07
To: freebsd-multimedia at freebsd.org
Subject: RE: Hauppauge WinTV PVR 250 for FreeBSD 5.2

Hi!

Now I got setchannel to work, the problem I had was that I tried to
change to a channel that didn't broadcast. Now I can record i.e. (cat
/dev/cxm0 > file.mpeg), but I still have two problems;

1. When recording no sound is recorded. 
I don't have a soundcard in my machine, is that required?  I recorded
the mpeg-file and played it on another machine. Do I need to do any
ioctl calls to configure the sound?

2. Cablechannels
I was looking at
http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn1012.html#RTFToC4 (mentioned
in cxm_tuner.c). The driver implements "B/G Off air channels" for my
tuner (LG). However I'm connected to a cablenetwork and need to
S-channels in "B/G Cable Channels". I tried to use channel from the "B/G
Off air mapping" that matched the Mhz for the S-shannel, but it didn't
work. What I'm I doing wrong? Does the bablemapping needs to be
implemented in the driver somehowe?

And one question;
If I use setchannel to change to a channel that aren't bradcasting. Is
the channel set to this new channel or is the old one used?


BTW. Thanks John for your great work!!! 

/Andreas

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-multimedia at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-multimedia at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of John Wehle
Sent: den 23 mars 2004 07:17
To: u431839553 at navab.net
Cc: freebsd-multimedia at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Hauppauge WinTV PVR 250 for FreeBSD 5.2

> No broadcast there. Only one I got is my satellite on 647 MHz (ch 43),

> but I use the composite input in Linux.
> 
> # setchannel -c
> ioctl( tfd, METEORSINPUT ) failed.: Invalid argument
> 
> # dmesg
> cxm0: video decoder failed to lock

The error message means the video decoder failed to identify a valid
video signal within the allowed time.

1) Are you sure it's the composite input?  So the video output from
   the satellite box is a RCA phono connector connected to a little
   adapter which plugs into the composite / svideo connector on the
   Hauppauge card?  You might try using "setchannel -s" just to see
   what happens.

2) You might try changing the loop in cxm_saa7115_wait_for_lock from
   10 to 20.

> When using the -t option:
> ioctl( tfd, METEORSINPUT ) failed.: Invalid argument
> ioctl( tfd, TVTUNER_SETCHNL ) failed.: Invalid argument
> 
> # dmesg
> cxm0: video decoder failed to lock
> cxm0: audio decoder failed to lock

As a dumb question ... I take it the coax connector on the
Hauppauge is connected to the output of the cable box?

Using -t to switch to the tuner will "fail" if the tuner
isn't set to a valid channel.  The input actually does
switch ... the METEORSINPUT ioctl merely seems to fail
because no valid video signal was detected.

The TVTUNER_SETCHNL should not fail if a valid video signal
is present at the chosen channel.  The BG channel mapping
used by the cxm driver maps channel 43 to 647.25 MHz.  You
mentioned 647 MHz ... did you mean 647.25 MHz?

-- John
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