[ivtv-users] cx18: Testers needed for patch to solve non-working CX23418 cards under linux (Re: cx18: Possible causal realtionship for HVR-1600 I2C errors)

[Andy Walls]

On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 18:09 -0700, Matt Loomis wrote:
> Success!  at mmio_ndelay=91.  I was able to do a cat /dev/video > foo.mpg, and view it as actual video!

Cool.  Be warned that just because it works once or twice at 91, it may
not be the "right" value.  If you notice weird, intermittent problems,
you may need to use a higher value to make them go away altogether.

> However I'm not sure which linux at to try to run to actually watch
> that video live?  I seem to get mixed results with
> "mplayer /dev/video", and I can't seem to select which channel to
> display?  I'm sure there's lots of different tv apps to choose from,
> but that battle will be another day!

Try:

$ mplayer /dev/video0 -cache 16384

To change analog channels you can use "v4l2-ctl -f nnn.nnn" if you know
the freq, but something like "ivtv-tune -d /dev/video0 -t us-bcast -c 7"
is easier for most people.



> here's my dmesg output...  thanks again for all your work!!!

You're welcome.  You can probably turn off your tuner debug statements,
one you think things are consistently OK for you.

Regards,
Andy

> Sep  9 20:24:39 localhost kernel: cx18:  Start initialization, version 1.0.0
> Sep  9 20:24:39 localhost kernel: cx18-0: Initializing card #0
> Sep  9 20:24:39 localhost kernel: cx18-0: Autodetected Hauppauge card
> Sep  9 20:24:39 localhost kernel: cx18-0: cx23418 revision 01010000 (B)
> Sep  9 20:24:40 localhost kernel: tveeprom 1-0050: Hauppauge model 74541, rev C6B6, serial# 3326448
> Sep  9 20:24:40 localhost kernel: tveeprom 1-0050: MAC address is 00-0D-FE-32-C1-F0
> Sep  9 20:24:40 localhost kernel: tveeprom 1-0050: tuner model is Philips FM1236 MK5 (idx 116, type 43)
> Sep  9 20:24:40 localhost kernel: tveeprom 1-0050: TV standards NTSC(M) (eeprom 0x08)
> Sep  9 20:24:40 localhost kernel: tveeprom 1-0050: audio processor is CX23418 (idx 38)
> Sep  9 20:24:40 localhost kernel: tveeprom 1-0050: decoder processor is CX23418 (idx 31)
> Sep  9 20:24:40 localhost kernel: tveeprom 1-0050: has radio
> Sep  9 20:24:40 localhost kernel: cx18-0: Autodetected Hauppauge HVR-1600
> Sep  9 20:24:40 localhost kernel: cx18-0: VBI is not yet supported
> Sep  9 20:24:40 localhost kernel: tuner 2-0043: I2C RECV = 8f 8e 8e 8e 8e 8e 8e 8e 8e 8e 8e 8e 8e 8e 8e 8e
> Sep  9 20:24:40 localhost kernel: tuner 2-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (cx18 i2c driver #0-1)
> Sep  9 20:24:40 localhost kernel: tda9887 2-0043: creating new instance
> Sep  9 20:24:40 localhost kernel: tda9887 2-0043: tda988[5/6/7] found
> Sep  9 20:24:40 localhost kernel: tuner 2-0061: I2C RECV = b9 b9 b9 b9 b9 b9 b9 b9 b9 b9 b9 b9 b9 b9 b9 b9
> Sep  9 20:24:40 localhost kernel: tuner 2-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (cx18 i2c driver #0-1)
> Sep  9 20:24:40 localhost kernel: cs5345 1-004c: chip found @ 0x98 (cx18 i2c driver #0-0)
> Sep  9 20:24:40 localhost kernel: tuner-simple 2-0061: creating new instance
> Sep  9 20:24:40 localhost kernel: tuner-simple 2-0061: type set to 43 (Philips NTSC MK3 (FM1236MK3 or FM1236/F))
> Sep  9 20:24:40 localhost kernel: tuner-simple 2-0061: tuner 0 atv rf input will be autoselected
> Sep  9 20:24:40 localhost kernel: tuner-simple 2-0061: tuner 0 dtv rf input will be autoselected
> Sep  9 20:24:40 localhost kernel: cx18-0: Disabled encoder IDX device
> Sep  9 20:24:40 localhost kernel: cx18-0: Registered device video0 for encoder MPEG (2 MB)
> Sep  9 20:24:40 localhost kernel: DVB: registering new adapter (cx18)
> Sep  9 20:24:41 localhost kernel: MXL5005S: Attached at address 0x63
> Sep  9 20:24:41 localhost kernel: DVB: registering frontend 0 (Samsung S5H1409 QAM/8VSB Frontend)...
> Sep  9 20:24:41 localhost kernel: cx18-0: DVB Frontend registered
> Sep  9 20:24:41 localhost kernel: cx18-0: Registered device video32 for encoder YUV (2 MB)
> Sep  9 20:24:41 localhost kernel: cx18-0: Registered device video24 for encoder PCM audio (1 MB)
> Sep  9 20:24:41 localhost kernel: cx18-0: Registered device radio0 for encoder radio
> Sep  9 20:24:41 localhost kernel: cx18-0: Initialized card #0: Hauppauge HVR-1600
> Sep  9 20:24:41 localhost kernel: cx18:  End initialization