HD-PVR Linux Support

[bcjenkins]

I am not seeing that using the Windows network encoder mode. In fact I did that very thing last night. This would likely be an issue with the stop/start commands to the driver in linux?

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[trueno]

I don't think so, as the recording file continues to grow (and after checking is still being recorded to just fine), looks like just the extender freezes. Maybe its an issue with having things locked to 1080i?

[bcjenkins]

The file should be stopped and started anew on channel change. My cable box is locked to 1080i output. On second thought I didn't upgrade the firmware until this morning.

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[trueno]

Right, a new recording file is started on channel change and everything correctly on the server.. the extender even gets a few seconds of the new channel/file, but then it freezes. Not sure if it happens consistently, but I noticed it several times last night.. Will test more today

[bcjenkins]

I'll check it out tonight from a Windows network encoder and let you know.

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[bcjenkins]

Sat through 10 channel changes, no issues here. Aside from this is the PVR working for you? I wonder if DirecTV is harder on channel changes..

B

[trueno]

Actually I was unable to reproduce the problem tonight, so maybe it was one of those midnight after 4 hours of coding/debuging problems ;-)

[bcjenkins]

Find your serial number with:

udevinfo -a -p $(udevinfo -q path -n /dev/video#

I have the following rule in my custom rules file:

KERNEL=="video*" , ATTRS{product}=="Hauppauge HD PVR" , ATTRS{serial}=="########" , NAME="video#"

It works, but it doesn't report the node name correctly in dmesg.

Is there a way to influence the kernel node number by writing a udev rule for the parent device? Not a huge issue for me, as I can always pass a module option.

B

Note: replace #'s with actual information.

[Ikarius]

Soooo,
How "ready" do y'all think this is? I just finally got my Linux server built properly (shoebox case w/ 2 terabyte software RAID5 running Ubuntu 8.10 x64 server edition), and I'm about ready to jump on turning it into a media server. I took a look at the bits floating about this thread for instructions, nothing was terribly scary as I'm an old-hand linux admin.

My HD source is Comcast digital cable... they provide tuner boxes. Is the recording off the Hauppage HD-PVR looking solid? My main concerns are...

1. Is the recording off the Hauppauge under linux acting reliable?
2. What format sound recording do we get out of the Hauppauge PVR box
3. What could/would I do about IR blasting/TV guide functionality?


Please excuse me- I'm a complete newb at the PVR stuff, I've been waiting a long time to see a solid linux solution for HD PVR, I'm hoping it's finally ready w/ SageTV My desired setup will include Comcast set-top -> Hauppauge PVR -> SageTV Linux server, and HD Media Extender downstairs for viewing.

--Ikarius

[bcjenkins]

Welll...

I am running my server in a house which is running 6 TVs. I have not been running the unit under Linux for more than 24 hours though. However, I am very pleased with how things are going thus far.

How's your tolerance for hiccups?

B

PS - I don't think IR blasting is worked out just yet from the HDPVR, but I would highly recommend a CommandIR II device. Gives you room to grow to 4 set top boxes.

[Ikarius]

Tolerance for hiccups in setup is large. I'm more than willing to put in my effort to tweak things out, work through problems, and get things working. I'm not faint-hearted, and in fact, I ended up filing 3 bugs against Ubuntu after going through some gyrations dealing with reshaping software RAID & doing a filesystem grow on Ubuntu.

On the other hand, I'm not a big fan of things which stop working mysteriously, and require a service restart or a reboot to get back up.

I don't have any expectation to need to go beyond one tuner source though, so while I did already look at the CommandIR product, I'd be happier to find something less expensive that handled only one product, and happiest to find myself ditching it in favour of using the bundled IR-blasting in the HD-PVR down the road sometime.

--Ikarius

[stuckless]

I finally got around to installing my HD-PVR under Linux. I upgraded to the latest sage, installed the HDPVR drivers for linux, and I was very impressed that Sage picked it up and used it. (Thanks Sage!!!)

I have a Bell 6141 HD receiver connected using Component video. The video quality seems to be as good as my Bell 9242 receiver.

I'm using the External Command Tuner for changing channels. I've recorded a couple of shows and everything seems to workings ok with a couple of glitches.

First, there was a minor hiccup during video playback on the media extender. I was recording another show at the time that I was watching, so I haven't determined if that was the cause, or if it's HD extender, Sage, etc.

Second, my 6141 unit goes into screen saver mode and can only be brought out using the "SELECT" button. I think that I can have sage send the "SELECT" before channel changes, but the External Command Tuner doesn't know about remote Keys, so either I have to modify the code to have it know about remote keys, or I'll have to use the LIRCTuner.

So far I'm fairly impressed with the unit.

[bcjenkins]

It has been running great for me for over a week now in Linux.

Looks like the drivers have been recently updated as well for AC3 support. Time to recompile!

http://hg.jannau.net/hdpvr/

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[trueno]

Been running great for me as well for 2 weeks at this point. Only issue is still driver related, sometimes changing channels rapidly causes the hd-pvr to fail to start recording again (you have to stop and start again to get it going). Mostly known issue with the driver folks and is being worked on.

[bcjenkins]

Ok, I know I am an early adopter of technology, and it has its own set of issues.. But the latest merge of the HDPVR driver and the latest merge of the CX18 driver breaks the HDPVR driver.

If anyone has any insight on getting this fixed I would appreciate it. If I load cx18 first, HDPVR hangs. If HDPVR goes in first there is a segfault as soon as cx18 loads. For now, I have removed the hdpvr driver.

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[zoop]

Originally Posted by bcjenkins

Ok, I know I am an early adopter of technology, and it has its own set of issues.. But the latest merge of the HDPVR driver and the latest merge of the CX18 driver breaks the HDPVR driver.

If anyone has any insight on getting this fixed I would appreciate it. If I load cx18 first, HDPVR hangs. If HDPVR goes in first there is a segfault as soon as cx18 loads. For now, I have removed the hdpvr driver.

B

sigh... i am literally just about to move my HD-PVR from my windows network encoder to the linux box. will advise if i see the same issue...

EDIT: not the same issue, but it isn't working anyway... the driver created the proper /dev entry but caused my 150s to stop working. not sure why as of now, but seems strange.

/jer

[bcjenkins]

I worked with one of the devs for cx18 drivers and hdpvr drivers. The hdpvr driver dev has disabled i2c in his latest pull until he is able to resolve the issue.

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[harrijay]

So I finally made the switch to setup my 2 HD-PVR's on linux and besides my udev rules biting me the setup was easy and I had no problems. Does anyone have an idea how to get udev rules setup for these? the only attribute that looks like I could query is the attrs serial, but when I tried this out it did not work for me. this was the rules I was trying

KERNEL=="video[0-9]", ATTRS{serial}=="00A1D61E" , NAME="video0", GROUP="video"
KERNEL=="video[0-9]", ATTRS{serial}=="00A1DB2B", NAME="video1", GROUP="video"


any ideas?

[bcjenkins]

Please post a dmesg log from the

Linux video capture interface: v2.00

and after. What other capture devices do you have in there, and what module options are you passing?

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[harrijay]

I have a PVR-150 and an Avermedia A180. I am not really specifying any different module options either.

[   57.879609] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[   57.949466] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
[   57.974307] input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input5
[   58.109485] iTCO_wdt: Found a ICH9R TCO device (Version=2, TCOBASE=0x1060)
[   58.109527] iTCO_wdt: initialized. heartbeat=30 sec (nowayout=0)
[   58.221935] ivtv:  Start initialization, version 1.4.0
[   58.221992] ivtv0: Initializing card #0
[   58.221994] ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge card (cx23416 based)
[   58.222306] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:11:0b.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
[   58.222315] ivtv0: Unreasonably low latency timer, setting to 64 (was 32)
[   58.269563] tveeprom 0-0050: Hauppauge model 26582, rev C699, serial# 8783890
[   58.269566] tveeprom 0-0050: tuner model is TCL 2002N 5H (idx 99, type 50)
[   58.269568] tveeprom 0-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) (eeprom 0x08)
[   58.269569] tveeprom 0-0050: audio processor is CX25843 (idx 37)
[   58.269571] tveeprom 0-0050: decoder processor is CX25843 (idx 30)
[   58.269572] tveeprom 0-0050: has no radio
[   58.269573] ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150
[   58.502867] saa7130/34: v4l2 driver version 0.2.14 loaded
[   58.540605] hdpvr: USB HD PVR device now attached to /dev/video0
[   58.568543] cx25840 0-0044: cx25843-23 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
[   58.570696] tuner 0-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
[   58.570714] wm8775 0-001b: chip found @ 0x36 (ivtv i2c driver #0)
[   58.722176] tuner-simple 0-0061: creating new instance
[   58.722179] tuner-simple 0-0061: type set to 50 (TCL 2002N)
[   58.725558] ivtv0: Registered device video1 for encoder MPG (4096 kB)
[   58.725575] ivtv0: Registered device video32 for encoder YUV (2048 kB)
[   58.725590] ivtv0: Registered device vbi0 for encoder VBI (1024 kB)
[   58.725604] ivtv0: Registered device video24 for encoder PCM (320 kB)
[   58.725607] ivtv0: Initialized card #0: Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150
[   58.725617] ivtv:  End initialization
[   58.725662] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:11:0a.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
[   58.725670] saa7133[0]: found at 0000:11:0a.0, rev: 209, irq: 18, latency: 181, mmio: 0xd4304000
[   58.725675] saa7133[0]: subsystem: 1461:1044, board: AVerMedia AVerTVHD MCE A180 [card=75,autodetected]
[   58.725683] saa7133[0]: board init: gpio is 10400
[   58.725728] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1b.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[   58.725741] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1b.0 to 64
[   58.809338] hda_codec: Unknown model for ALC262, trying auto-probe from BIOS...
[   58.849304] tuner' 1-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (saa7133[0])
[   58.869278] tuner' 1-0063: chip found @ 0xc6 (saa7133[0])
[   58.948487] hdpvr: USB HD PVR device now attached to /dev/video2
[   58.948499] usbcore: registered new interface driver hdpvr
[   58.949200] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 00: 61 14 44 10 54 20 1c 00 43 43 a9 1c 55 d2 b2 92
[   58.949206] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 10: 00 ff 86 0f ff 20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[   58.949211] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 20: 01 40 01 02 02 ff 01 03 06 ff 01 11 00 00 00 00
[   58.949216] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 30: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[   58.949222] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 40: ff 64 00 c2 14 16 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[   58.949227] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 50: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   58.949232] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 60: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   58.949237] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 70: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   58.949242] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 80: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   58.949247] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom 90: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   58.949252] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom a0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   58.949257] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom b0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   58.949262] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom c0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   58.949267] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom d0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   58.949272] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom e0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   58.949277] saa7133[0]: i2c eeprom f0: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[   58.949732] saa7133[0]: registered device video3 [v4l2]
[   58.949746] saa7133[0]: registered device vbi1
[   59.267416] nxt200x: NXT2004 Detected
[   59.302102] DVB: registering new adapter (saa7133[0])
[   59.302105] DVB: registering frontend 0 (Nextwave NXT200X VSB/QAM frontend)...
[   59.317337] nxt2004: Waiting for firmware upload (dvb-fe-nxt2004.fw)...
[   59.433076] nxt2004: Waiting for firmware upload(2)...
[   59.647709] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[   59.647872] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
[   60.150516] loop: module loaded
[   60.207115] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[   61.401645] nxt2004: Firmware upload complete
[   65.615458] Adding 1975984k swap on /dev/sda2.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1975984k
[   65.922019] EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal
[   66.261143] SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, realtime, large block numbers, no debug enabled
[   66.261571] SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem
[   66.290284] XFS mounting filesystem sdc1
[   66.368942] Ending clean XFS mount for filesystem: sdc1
[   66.418599] XFS mounting filesystem sdb1
[   66.514680] Ending clean XFS mount for filesystem: sdb1
[   66.527300] XFS mounting filesystem sdd1
[   66.605034] Ending clean XFS mount for filesystem: sdd1
[   67.049228] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
[   68.314741] RPC: Registered udp transport module.
[   68.314743] RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
[   70.217887] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[   92.811193] Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
[   92.873333] NFSD: Using /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery as the NFSv4 state recovery directory
[   92.885104] NFSD: starting 90-second grace period
[   96.517946] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[   99.572975] /dev/vmmon[5830]: Module vmmon: registered with major=10 minor=165
[   99.572985] /dev/vmmon[5830]: Initial HV check: anyNotCapable=0 anyUnlocked=0 anyEnabled=1 anyDisabled=0
[   99.572989] /dev/vmmon[5830]: HV check: anyNotCapable=0 anyUnlocked=0 anyEnabled=1 anyDisabled=0
[   99.572991] /dev/vmmon[5830]: Module vmmon: initialized
[   99.596572] /dev/vmci[5844]: VMCI: Driver initialized.
[   99.596602] /dev/vmci[5844]: Module vmci: registered with major=10 minor=63
[   99.596608] /dev/vmci[5844]: Module vmci: initialized
[  101.287606] /dev/vmnet: open called by PID 5911 (vmnet-bridge)
[  101.287615] /dev/vmnet: hub 0 does not exist, allocating memory.
[  101.287622] /dev/vmnet: port on hub 0 successfully opened
[  101.287634] bridge-eth0: up
[  101.287637] bridge-eth0: attached
[  110.013485] ivtv0: Loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (376836 bytes)
[  110.205808] ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02060039
[  113.427568] cx25840 0-0044: loaded v4l-cx25840.fw firmware (16382 bytes)