[vlc] Re: PVR-350 card

Sigmund Augdal Helberg dnumgis at videolan.org
Wed Nov 2 12:26:27 CET 2005


On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 15:38 +0530, prasadbgr at multitech.co.in wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
>    I am using Hauppage PVR 350 card for live streaming.I came to know that
> the driver for happage pvr 350 card is ivtv driver.
> 
>   I installed this driver and /dev/video0 was created in the /dev
> directory and also showing the correct information about the card in the
> dmesg.
> 
> 
>   As I know vlc doesn't tune the frequency for tv out cards (pvr 350 cards).
This is not correct. Run vlc -p pvr to see options for the ivtv driver.
A usual run using the tuner would be something like this:
vlc pvr:/dev/video0 --pvr-channel 0 --pvr-frequency 123123 --pvr-bitrate
5000000

Which value to use for pvr-channel can be found using ivtvctl -P

Sigmund
> 
>   So I used tvtime player to tune to the particular frequency. But it was
> giving an error ivtv:Invalid argument and cannot capture /dev/vide0.
> 
>   Then I treid with Mythtv but I failed to setup properly.
> 
>   Please can anybody help about this problem. And also can it be possble
> to tune the card in tvtime application..
> 
>   Can I know the correct installation of Mythtv...
> 
> Thanks in Advance
> Prasad
> 
> 
> 

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