Getting a WinTV PVR-350 working

[Aragon Gouveia]

| By Jeff <jeff at doeshosting.com>
|                                          [ 2008-05-16 08:08 +0200 ]
> Have you tried setting the frequency first?  pvr250-setchannel  
> <frequency>
> Here is an easier method, forwarding from an earlier thread:
> mplayer /dev/cxm0 is another way to open the stream.

Unfortunately that doesn't help:

$ pvr250-setchannel 225.0  
$ cat /dev/cxm0 >test.mpg
cat: /dev/cxm0: Device not configured
May 16 18:26:14 <kern.crit> igor kernel: before tuner_command!
May 16 18:26:14 <kern.info> igor kernel: tuner: tv freq set to 225.00
May 16 18:26:14 <kern.info> igor kernel: tuner: tv 0x10 0x7f 0x8e 0x02
May 16 18:26:26 <kern.crit> igor kernel: cxm0: video decoder isn't locked
May 16 18:26:26 <kern.debug> igor kernel: Could not detect FPS
May 16 18:26:26 <kern.debug> igor kernel: could not config dec
May 16 18:26:26 <kern.debug> igor kernel: could not start encoder

$ mplayer /dev/cxm0
MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.2.1 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     E8500  @ 3.16GHz (Family: 6, Model: 23,
Stepping: 6)
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.

Playing /dev/cxm0.
Seek failed


Exiting... (End of file)



Thanks,
Aragon