MythTV backend - any hope to get my PVR-250 working?

[Saul A Peebsen]

On Sat, 16 Apr 2011 07:59:22 -0500
Saul A Peebsen <jaglover at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:38:50 +0200
> Bernhard Froehlich <decke at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 06:55:22 -0500, Saul A Peebsen wrote:
> > > I have an always on FreeBSD box which I thought would also serve
> > > as MythTV backend. After looking at
> > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/MythTV I figured it's a piece of cake and
> > > bought a PVR-250. Now I'm confused because MythTV does not find
> > > the card.
> > > 
> > > After installing multimedia/pvr250 device node cxm0 is created,
> > > but that's the only one. I can cat the stream out of it and watch
> > > the default channel but that's it.
> > > 
> > > The card is:
> > > Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16
> > > (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
> > > 
> > > Is there any hope it would work after some fiddling or I just
> > > better ditch the whole idea?
> > 
> > Don't know exactly about PVR-250 cards but pvrxxx is currently a
> > problem and known to fail since MythTV 0.22. I've tried to narrow
> > down the problem with Torfinn Ingolfsen for pvrxxx but could not
> > find a solution. Can you please also put the following patch into
> > /usr/ports/multimedia/mythtv/files/ and reinstall mythtv. After that
> > try to configure the card and send me the mythbackend.log file
> > please.
> > 
> > http://home.bluelife.at/patches/patch-libs__libmythtv__mpegrecorder.cpp
> > 
> 
> Well, did that. After trying configure and specifying
> manually /dev/cxm0 ...

Please disregard my previous mail, I screwed up my modules, will post
correct log when I get back from work.

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Cheers, Saul