Hauppauge 1800, Gentoo, Troublehooting...

[yakshaver]

The point of this post is twofold. First I would like to here from anyone using the 1800 with Analog cable on a GNU/Linux system. Second, I'm trying to troubleshoot a problem with playing the output from /dev/video0. Although, cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg clearly writes data to a file. I cannot play that file in mplayer which is probably why SageTV is not currently working. Any suggestions? By the way, I can play valid MPEG2 files with mplayer.

Here's some background information:

I have installed SageTV Server on a Gentoo box(2.6.25-gentoo-r8) with Hauppauge 1800 tuners and I have successfully installed the most recent version of V4L from the source repository, IVTV(1.2.0-r1), configured and built the server following the instructions here: http://linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.php...vices_(cx2388x). The tuner cards are successfully and correctly recognized and the all the devices show up under /dev.

Here is the relevant dmesg output:

dvb_core: module is already loaded
Linux video capture interface: v2.00
cx23885 driver version 0.0.1 loaded
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
CORE cx23885[0]: subsystem: 0070:7801, board: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR1800 [card=2,au
todetected]
cx23885[0]: i2c bus 0 registered
cx23885[0]: i2c bus 1 registered
cx23885[0]: i2c bus 2 registered
tveeprom 0-0050: Hauppauge model 78521, rev C1E9, serial# 2968591
tveeprom 0-0050: MAC address is 00-0D-FE-2D-4C-0F
tveeprom 0-0050: tuner model is Philips 18271_8295 (idx 149, type 54)
tveeprom 0-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) ATSC/DVB Digital (eeprom 0x88)
tveeprom 0-0050: audio processor is CX23887 (idx 42)
tveeprom 0-0050: decoder processor is CX23887 (idx 37)
tveeprom 0-0050: has radio
cx23885[0]: hauppauge eeprom: model=78521
cx25840' 2-0044: cx25 0-21 found @ 0x88 (cx23885[0])
cx23885[0]/0: registered device video0 [v4l2]
cx25840' 2-0044: unable to open firmware v4l-cx23885-avcore-01.fw
cx23885[0]: registered device video1 [mpeg]
cx23885[0]: cx23885 based dvb card
MT2131: successfully identified at address 0x61
DVB: registering new adapter (cx23885[0])
DVB: registering frontend 0 (Samsung S5H1409 QAM/8VSB Frontend)...
cx23885_dev_checkrevision() Hardware revision = 0xb1
cx23885[0]/0: found at 0000:03:00.0, rev: 15, irq: 16, latency: 0, mmio: 0xfc000
000
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:03:00.0 to 64
EXT3 FS on md4, internal journal
nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:01:00.0 to 64
NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 173.14.09 Wed Jun 4 23:43:17 PDT
2008
ivtv: Start initialization, version 1.4.0
ivtv: End initialization
i2c /dev entries driver
lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, major 61

Here the mplayer output from playing a captured file from /dev/video0:

MPlayer dev-SVN-r26753-4.1.2 (C) 2000-2008 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6550 @ 2.33GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 11)
MMX2 supported but disabled
SSE supported but disabled
SSE2 supported but disabled
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled for x86 CPU with extensions: MMX

Playing test2.mpg.


Exiting... (End of file)

Thanks,
yakshaver

[bcjenkins]

I don't think you're problem is two-fold video0 is the analog port and the 1800 has had issues with it. I sold mine because I couldn't get it to work. I think I say your post on ivtv, it should get picked up by stoth. He's the creator of the driver.

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[yakshaver]

What did you replace the 1800 with?

[bcjenkins]

Originally Posted by yakshaver

What did you replace the 1800 with?

1600, I am mostly pleased with it. I have one remaining issue which I am hoping the devs look at soon. When watching anything on the analog tuner, it will pixelate for a second and clear up. This started happening when they moved the drivers to v4l2 code base.

Fortunately, it doesn't drive me too batty because I primarily watch HD and HDPVR.

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