New port: pvrxxx for Hauppauge PVR150/500

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:32:28 +0200
usleepless at gmail.com wrote:

> i just want to make people aware that now there is a driver for the
> Hauppauge PVR150 and PVR500 cards ( multimedia/pvrxxx ).

Ok, I've tried to test this, with a PVR-350 card on a 6.1-stable /
amd64 box:

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

I tried 'pvr250-setchannel -t -d 0 -g 720x576 -m 4 5', followed by

'mplayer /dev/cxm0'

but alas, no picture. Shouldn't this work?

I notice that pvr250-setchannel (and probably cxm itself, haven't
checked yet) only accept numerical channels (we here in Europe are used
to channel names like 'E8', 'S37', 'SE13' and so on) so I chose a
channel (5) that I know is in use here, and is supported by the cxm
driver / pvr250-setchannel. I've tried other channels as well, without
success.

If I do 'pvr250-setchannel -d 0 262.250' I get the following
in /var/log/messages:
Oct 11 21:20:39 kg-quiet kernel: device cxm0 opened
Oct 11 21:20:39 kg-quiet kernel: <2>cxm 0-0000: Video signal:              not present
Oct 11 21:20:39 kg-quiet kernel: <2>cxm 0-0000: Detected format:           0x0
Oct 11 21:20:39 kg-quiet kernel: <2>cxm 0-0000: Detected audio mode:       mono
Oct 11 21:20:39 kg-quiet kernel: <2>cxm 0-0000: Detected audio standard:   not defined
Oct 11 21:20:39 kg-quiet kernel: <2>cxm 0-0000: Audio muted:               no
Oct 11 21:20:39 kg-quiet kernel: <2>cxm 0-0000: Audio microcontroller:     stopped
Oct 11 21:20:39 kg-quiet kernel: <2>cxm 0-0000: Configured audio standard: undefined
Oct 11 21:20:39 kg-quiet kernel: <2>cxm 0-0000: Configured audio mode:     MONO1 (LANGUAGE A/Mono L+R channel for BTSC, EIAJ, A2)
Oct 11 21:20:39 kg-quiet kernel: <2>cxm 0-0000: Specified standard:        automatic detection
Oct 11 21:20:39 kg-quiet kernel: <2>cxm 0-0000: Specified input:           Tuner
Oct 11 21:20:39 kg-quiet kernel: <2>cxm 0-0000: Specified audio input:     Tuner
Oct 11 21:20:39 kg-quiet kernel: <2>cxm 0-0000: Specified audioclock freq: 48 kHz
Oct 11 21:20:39 kg-quiet kernel: <2>cxm 0-0000: Preferred audio mode:      mono/language A

and I have checked that the sgnal is available, and that the cable is plugged into the tuner input.

Anything else I can do?
-- 
Regards,
Torfinn Ingolfsen,
Norway