Fwd: MythTV port - status report

[usleepless at gmail.com]

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From: usleepless at gmail.com
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 23:31:33 +0100
Subject: Re: MythTV port - status report
To: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen at broadpark.no>

Torfinn, List,

On 12/24/06, Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen at broadpark.no> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just a short status report on the MythTV port.
> System:
> an amd64 machine running
> root at kg-quiet# uname -a
> FreeBSD kg-quiet.kg4.no 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #10: Wed Oct 11
> 19:49:47 CEST 2006     root at kg-quiet.kg4.no:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/QUIET
> amd64
>
> with a Hauppauge PVR-350 card in it, using the pvr250 driver
> (multimedia/pvr250).
>
> mythtv-setup runs, but immediately display the warning about the backend
> running. In this case, the backend is NOT running, but I don't know if this
> affects anything.
> I get one error message in the shell (from where I start mythtv-setup) which
> might be related:
> ps: Process environment requires procfs(5)
>
> When I get to the second screen in mythtv-setup ("2. Capture Cards"), I set
> up my card as a "MPEG-2 encoder card (PVR-x50, PVR-500)", and use /dev/cxm0
> as video device. It says "Probed info: failed to probe", but I carry on and
> select "Television" as default input.
> On screen 3 ("3. Video Sources") I st up one source, called TV, which uses
> tv_grab_no. So far, no problems.
> Screen 4 ("4. Input Connections") is blank (as in "no lines of information")
> and I get these error messages in the shell:
> Could not query inputs.
> eno: Inappropriate ioctl for device (25)
>
> Perhaps the driver I'm using isn't up to the task?
> I tried setting the card  up as an analog card also, but that didn't work
> either.
>
> Also, when I start mythbackend I get this in the logfile:
> root at kg-quiet# less /var/log/mythbackend.log
> 2006-12-24 22:57:58.577 Using runtime prefix = /usr/local
> 2006-12-24 22:57:58.601 New DB connection, total: 1
> 2006-12-24 22:57:58.613 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
> localhost
> 2006-12-24 22:57:58.619 Current Schema Version: 1158
> Starting up as the master server.
> 2006-12-24 22:57:58.633 New DB connection, total: 2
> 2006-12-24 22:57:58.634 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
> localhost
> 2006-12-24 22:57:58.638 EITHelper: localtime offset 1:00:00
> 2006-12-24 22:57:58.659 TVRec(2) Error: Problem finding starting channel,
> setting to default of '3'.
> 2006-12-24 22:57:58.661 ChannelBase(2) Error: InitializeInputs():
>                         Could not get inputs for the capturecard.
>                         Perhaps you have forgotten to bind video
>                         sources to your card's inputs?

this can have at least 2 reasons:
1. you haven't completed the setup properly.
2. the device you are using doesn't support the enumerate-inputs-v4l2-ioctl.

are you planning on running a backend on fbsd? or just a frontend?

please keep posting your progress and problems. i am reading along.

regards,

usleep

PS: forgot to include the list