[ivtv-users] Upgrade Ubuntu Hardy kernel ruined ivtv, upgrading to Ubuntu Intrepid doesn't help.

[stinky wizzleteet]

Sander Sweers wrote:
> Please do not top post.
>
>   
ok, thanks for replying though.
> On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 15:34, stinky wizzleteet <wizzleteet at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> First, my Ubuntu Intrepid vanilla install (with my old mythconverg database)
>> gives me choppy sound and an offset image:
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> Mythtv is not very good for testing. Install the ivtv utilities which
> should be in the oficial ubuntu packages. make sure mythtv is not
> started and then:
>
> use ivtv-tune to tune to a channel/freqyency which has a signal.
> do cat /dev/video0 > test.mpg
>
> Does this create a correct file?
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>   
No,
I repaired all of my wrong-doing of yesterday, apt-get update revealed a 
new ubuntu kernel release, which I installed, also upgraded everything 
else (not much).

So, I installed 2.6.27-9-generic kernel and ivtv-utils.
Did a Cold Boot into 2.6.27-9
Tuned ivtv and grabbed an mpeg, which you can see at (11mb):
http://www.box.net/shared/30autf07yb
Basically, it is not good, shifted image, sound and video playing 
catchup with eachother....


>> please check it out at:
>> http://www.box.net/shared/bt9kteod7l
>>
>> Tested Intrepid kernels are:
>> 2.6.27-7-generic
>> 2.6.28 built from git repository dec. 30 2008
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> I would stick with the oficial released versio from ubuntu.
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>   
Ok, done
>> Booted with kernel 2.6.28 dmesg gives me:
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[snip]

>> I see nothing out of the ordinary with this, in the past (v 0.4 I believe) I
>> had to specify a different tuner, tried that, but no effect whatsoever.
>>     
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> You should not need to specify a different tuner with this kenel version.
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I tried it, but you're right, no need for it.
>> Secondly, I tried to fix this by building ivtv-utils myself, but the build
>> breaks because of a conflicting ivtv.h in both /usr/include/linux and
>> /usr/src/linux/include/linux
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> Why do you need to build them? They should be available from ubuntu.
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It was a long shot, I figured the ubuntu utils *could* have something to 
do with it.
>> Also, v4l-dvb-9d9288bed20b breaks on building bttv, but for a different
>> reason I suspect.
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> That is the risk of using the bleeding edge repo from v4l-dvb.
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true that.