PVR-350 and the pvr250 port - report

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:24:10 -0500
"Rick C. Petty" <rick-freebsd at kiwi-computer.com> wrote:

> What do you mean by failure?  My suggestion was only to help with the

I mean that the command fails like this:
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tingo at kg-quiet$ cat /dev/cxm0 > test.mpg & mplayer test.mpg
cat: /dev/cxm0: Device busy
MPlayer 1.0pre8-3.4.4 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ (Family: 15, Model: 31, Stepping: 0)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX MMX2 3DNow 3DNowEx SSE SSE2


Playing test.mpg.
Seek failed


Exiting... (End of file)
[1]   Done (1)                cat /dev/cxm0 >test.mpg
tingo at kg-quiet$ 
<--- cut --->

> Which is exactly what I was implying.  I'm surprised if the
> cat-to-file has as many buffering problems as the direct-to-mplayer
> command.  I'd like to see the error messages corresponding to the cat
> version-- something like:
> 
> 	date; cat /dev/cxm > somefile &
> 
> and the dmesg corresponding to that date.

There are nothing (exactly no lines) in the dmesg other than the ones I have referred to here. I have run a tail -f /var/log/messages in another window to be sure. :)

However, I have tried 'mplayer -cache 8192 /dev/cxm0' and that cures the playback problem, AFAICT.
Doing that allowed me to better judge the video quality of the TV cannels - it seems that picture / video quality isn't worse than on my other equipment (this is analog cable after all). Oh - sound quality is good.

> Another question-- what's your processor type & speed and how much
> RAM does the machine have?

CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ (1790.84-MHz K8-class CPU)
real memory  = 1072627712 (1022 MB)
avail memory = 1022713856 (975 MB)

-- 
Regards,
Torfinn Ingolfsen,
Norway