pvr250 and MythTV

[usleepless at gmail.com]

Joe,

On 2/27/07, Joe Auty <joe at netmusician.org> wrote:
>
>
> I do have these cables, I could give this a try if this would be
> useful....
>
> Is this driver designed to work via a simple cat redirection like the
> pvr250 port does? I'm wondering why you are focussed on the Myth port
> as opposed to capturing video this way?
>
>
> For starters, here is the mythbackend output to stdout when I start
> it up:
>
> 2007-02-27 17:55:26.774 Using runtime prefix = /usr/local
> 2007-02-27 17:55:26.862 New DB connection, total: 1
> 2007-02-27 17:55:26.876 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
> localhost
> 2007-02-27 17:55:26.891 Current Schema Version: 1158
> Starting up as the master server.
> 2007-02-27 17:55:26.924 New DB connection, total: 2
> 2007-02-27 17:55:26.926 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
> localhost
> 2007-02-27 17:55:26.936 EITHelper: localtime offset -5:00:00
> 2007-02-27 17:55:26.956 TVRec(1) Error: Start channel invalid,
> setting to '100' on input Tuner 0 instead.
> 2007-02-27 17:55:26.963 New DB connection, total: 3
> 2007-02-27 17:55:26.965 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
> localhost
> 2007-02-27 17:55:30.812 ChannelBase: Could not find input: Television
> on card when setting channel 100
>
> 2007-02-27 17:55:30.844 ChannelBase: Could not find input: Television
> on card when setting channel 49
>
> 2007-02-27 17:55:30.852 TVRec(1) Error: Setting start channel '100'
> failed,
>                          and backup '49' failed as well.
> 2007-02-27 17:55:30.980 New DB scheduler connection
> 2007-02-27 17:55:30.992 Connected to database 'mythconverg' at host:
> localhost
> 2007-02-27 17:55:31.023 Main::Starting HttpServer
> 2007-02-27 17:55:31.037 Main::Registering HttpStatus Extension
> 2007-02-27 17:55:31.059 mythbackend version: 0.20.20060828-3
> www.mythtv.org
> 2007-02-27 17:55:31.060 Enabled verbose msgs:  important general
> 2007-02-27 17:55:31.061 AutoExpire: Found 1 recorders w/max rate of
> 72 MiB/min
> 2007-02-27 17:55:31.065 AutoExpire: Required Free Space: 2.1 GB w/
> freq: 10 min
> 2007-02-27 17:55:33.022 Reschedule requested for id -1.
> 2007-02-27 17:55:33.962 Scheduled 0 items in 0.9 = 0.90 match + 0.04
> place
> 2007-02-27 17:55:33.972 Seem to be woken up by USER
>
>
> Like I said before, the error message I get from trying to watch TV:
>
> > 2007-02-27 16:56:48.636 MPEGRec(/dev/cxm0) Error: error reading
> > from: /dev/cxm0
> >                          eno: Device not configured (6)
>
>
> Which is the same as:
>
> > # cat /dev/cxm0 > test.mpg
> > cat: /dev/cxm0: Device not configured

do you know the pvr250-setchannel command?

can you tune by freq instead of channel?

#pvr250-setchannel -a on -t -m 2 205.250

or something like that. and then "cat" the way you are used to. this
driver should behave just like the pvr250 driver.

regards,

usleep