PVR-350 Video output fails

[Mario Limonciello]

Binary package hint: mythtv

Currently, PVR 350 video output fails miserably. Even if the user is to go around and setup X to output via ivtv-fb, it still fails "With failed to display video" in mythtv.

This has been reported here: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/ivtv/users/36980

And can be solved by a very small patch that only affects IVTV video output portions of mythtv:
http://www.iarmst.demon.co.uk/test/mythfix-ivtv-v3.patch

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

Attaching a debdiff to resolve this in Gutsy.

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

Build log is available on this PPA (Only difference is the version number):
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10214718/buildlog_ubuntu-gutsy-i386.mythtv_0.20.2-0ubuntu10.1%7Eppa1_FULLYBUILT.txt.gz

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

This has been uploaded to gutsy proposed and needs an archive admin to ack it.

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

Fix commited to mythtv-fixes bzr branch.

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

mythtv (0.20.2+fixes14789-0ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * New upstream checkout (svn changeset 14789)
    - Drop 23_schedulesdirect.dpatch (included upstream).
    - Drop 24_mythstream_typo.dpatch (included upstream).
    - Drop 25_firewire.dpatch (included upstream).
    - Drop 28_profilebuild.dpatch (included upstream).
    - Drop 30_xinerama_fix.dpatch (included upstream).
  * Create a symbolic link to /etc/mythtv/mysql.txt in ~/.mythtv/
    if you don't already have a mysql.txt.
  * debian/control: depend on gnome-screensaver | xscreensaver rather
    than just gnome-screensaver.
  * Update 06_gnomescreensaver.dpatch with changeset 10090, 14023,
    and 14755 from trunk. (LP: #147905)
  * debian/control:
    - Move all references of mythtv-doc to suggests
    - Remove mysql-server from recommends
    - Move reference of xmltv-util to suggests
  * Add 31_pvr350_ivtv.dpatch to fix pvr-350 ivtv output. (LP: #158562)

 -- Mario Limonciello <email address hidden> Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:56:16 -0400

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

This is anything but "a very small patch", it's a rewrite of half of the ivtv driver. I won't let this into SRU until there are some acks from motu-sru and some test results on other hardware.

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

MOTU-SRU doesn't exist any more. All SRU's go directly from MOTU's
themselves. I have this on the PPA already and at least two people using it
without trouble, but I've told them to hold off on commenting it until it
was released to gutsy-proposed. Isn't the point of gutsy-proposed though so
that people can more availably test it?

On Nov 5, 2007 3:09 PM, Martin Pitt <email address hidden> wrote:

> This is anything but "a very small patch", it's a rewrite of half of the
> ivtv driver. I won't let this into SRU until there are some acks from
> motu-sru and some test results on other hardware.
>
> --
> PVR-350 Video output fails
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/158562
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

--
Mario Limonciello
<email address hidden>

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

Reference of a post that worked for someone with the PPA package:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=3535813&postcount=32

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

Reference of posts of people who are encountering this and waiting for the SRU:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=615070
http://www.backports.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3798415

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

Also,

I've got this patch running on two of my own systems (without this hardware). The IVTV output is only activated when explicitly enabled in the frontend setup (and requires you to have that particular hardware)

[solarbaby (solarbaby)]

I used the package for the PPA and my Hauppauge 350 Tv out works now.

[w.jason.srutz (w-jason-strutz)]

I had mythtv with the PVR-350 tv-out working on Fedora core, but "accidentally" upgraded the kernel and broke it. I decided to try Ubuntu Feisty with a fresh install for unimportant reasons. I was thereafter able to get mythtv working, but the tv-out wouldn't display. At one point, I installed Mythbuntu, which again got most of what I wanted working rather quickly, but no tv-out. About two weeks ago, I reinstalled again with Gutsy, and was able to get mythtv running, but again without tv-out. Finally, this evening, I ran a google search on "saa7127 test_image=1" to see what kind of other cool test patterns I could find, and accidentally found this bug fix. I thought WTF, and installed it. And it worked.

After nearly ten months (and two major kernel releases) of trial and error, this patch solved my myth problems (the big one anyway). I understand that the update needs to be tested, but I specifically bought the pvr-350 (and started toying with Linux in the first place) in order to use my old computer as a DVR with output to the full size TV. Please get this built into the next Ubuntu release!

[Jonathan Riddell (jr)]

Accepted into gutsy-proposed

[E (ekw1)]

After upgrading from Feisty (ivtv 0.10.6) to Gutsy (ivtv 1.0.0), the TV-out on my Hauppauge PVR-350 stopped working. This fix got it working again in Gutsy.

[Thomas Mashos (tgm4883)]

Tested on my Gutsy machine with pcHDTV 5500 and PVR-150. Did not adversely affect anything.

[huval (huval1)]

Tested on my Gutsy machine with two pvr-150 cards. Everything still working fine.

[Mario Limonciello (superm1)]

This has been verified by several members both using and not using hardware. Members with the hardware have verified that it fixes the problem, and without hardware that it doesn't break theirs. (I personally don't have the hardware and made sure it didn't break anything additionally)

Can an archive admin please release it to -updates?
Thanks.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Copied to gutsy-updates.