MythTV 0.23.1 and PVR-500

[Bernhard Froehlich]

On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 14:00:56 +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen
<torfinn.ingolfsen at broadpark.no> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am testing MythTV 0.23.1 from ports on my main MythTV machine[1],
> running FreeBSD 8.1 (slightly old):
> root at kg-fil# uname -a
> FreeBSD kg-fil.kg4.no 8.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE #4: Fri
> May 21 00:20:01 CEST 2010    
> root at kg-fil.kg4.no:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
> root at kg-fil# portversion -v | grep mythtv
> mythtv-0.23.1               =  up-to-date with port 
> 
> 
> The machine has a PVR-500 card, and I am using this driver (patched
> to work with 8.x):
> root at kg-fil# portversion -v | grep pvr
> pvrxxx-09042008             <  needs updating (port has 20060822_1) 
> The driver works with mplayer, tested like this:
> pvr250-setchannel -d 0 -t 147.25
> mplayer /dev/cxm0
> 
> (and the same for /dev/cxm1).
> 
> Note: I tried the updated pvr250 driver as well, but it doesn't want
> to detect / use the tuners of my card.
> 
> 
> The port installed fine, but LiveTV (or anything lese to do with the
> PVR-500 card) isn't working.
> Output from /var/log/mythbackend.log:
> 2010-12-09 13:31:25.223 MainServer::ANN Playback
> 2010-12-09 13:31:25.223 adding: kg-fil.kg4.no as a client (events: 0)
> 2010-12-09 13:31:25.240 TVRec(1): Changing from None to WatchingLiveTV
> 2010-12-09 13:31:25.246 TVRec(1): HW Tuner: 1->1
> 2010-12-09 13:31:25.928 ProgramInfo(): Updated pathname '':'' ->
> '1000_20101209133125.mpg'
> 2010-12-09 13:31:25.937 
> 
> Not ivtv or pvrusb2 or hdpvr driver

I'm aware of this problem but you're obviously the only mythtv user on
FreeBSD that uses that driver because it's happening since the 0.23
update. Could you please try it with the 0.24 port that is already
mostly finished? I want to commit the update around christmas.

http://svn.bluelife.at/nightlies/blueports.tar.gz

-- 
Bernhard Fröhlich
http://www.bluelife.at/