Dear Mailing List linux-media: I am attempting to use a Hauppage HVR-1600 purchased new in 2010 as an analog tv tuner in my HP Pavillion Elite M9040n PC running Centos 6.2 x86_64. The problem I am experiencing is that with every kernel update and/or mythtv and/or vlc or other media update it seems I loose sound on my captured avi/mpeg files. After as bit of tweaking it seems to come back and I've never been able to pin down exactly what is hosing the sound. I should mention the unit has an HVR 1850 at slot 2 which works for DVB tuning jsut fine. The HVR 1600 is in pci slot 1 and from what I can see in dmesg it also loaded fine. Maybe someone who is more intimate with linux-media can review the data I've included and suggest a troubleshooting approach. I am beginning to suspect I need to specify a conf file for module cx18 but not sure where to begin that. I am trying to maintain the package management on this system so I have not isntalled sources or compiled anything, everything has been managed by yum and pulled from the centos-base, centos-updates or atrpms repos for 99% of things. There may be an elrepo or rpmfusion rpm or two, but they would be an exception. Below I am providing what I think is the relevant starter information. uname -a ==> Linux mythbox.ladodomain 2.6.32-220.13.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Apr 17 23:56:34 BST 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux lspci output follows: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM Controller (rev 02) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 02) 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82566DC-2 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 02) 00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02) 00:1a.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02) 00:1a.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) 00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02) 00:1d.3 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 02) 00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 92) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801IR (ICH9R) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801IR/IO/IH (ICH9R/DO/DH) 4 port SATA Controller [IDE mode] (rev 02) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) 2 port SATA Controller [IDE mode] (rev 02) 01:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. CX23418 Single-Chip MPEG-2 Encoder with Integrated Analog Video/Broadcast Audio Decoder 01:05.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere Systems FW322/323 (rev 70) 02:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. CX23887/8 PCIe Broadcast Audio and Video Decoder with 3D Comb (rev 0f) 04:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G98 [GeForce 8400 GS] (rev a1) Output from dmesg | grep -A 3 -B 3 cx18 --> follows below: SELinux: initialized (dev mqueue, type mqueue), uses transition SIDs lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions SELinux: initialized (dev proc, type proc), uses genfs_contexts cx18: Start initialization, version 1.5.1 cx18-0: Initializing card 0 cx18-0: Autodetected Hauppauge card cx18 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 cx18-0: cx23418 revision 01010000 (B) tveeprom 4-0050: Hauppauge model 74041, rev C6B2, serial# 5267091 tveeprom 4-0050: MAC address is 00:0d:fe:50:5e:93 tveeprom 4-0050: tuner model is TCL M2523_5N_E (idx 112, type 50) -- tveeprom 4-0050: audio processor is CX23418 (idx 38) tveeprom 4-0050: decoder processor is CX23418 (idx 31) tveeprom 4-0050: has no radio, has IR receiver, has IR transmitter cx18-0: Autodetected Hauppauge HVR-1600 cx18-0: Simultaneous Digital and Analog TV capture supported IRQ 17/cx18-0: IRQF_DISABLED is not guaranteed on shared IRQs tuner 5-0061: Tuner -1 found with type(s) Radio TV. cs5345 4-004c: chip found @ 0x98 (cx18 i2c driver #0-0) tuner-simple 5-0061: creating new instance tuner-simple 5-0061: type set to 50 (TCL 2002N) cx18-0: Registered device video2 for encoder MPEG (64 x 32.00 kB) DVB: registering new adapter (cx18) cx18 0000:01:00.0: firmware: requesting v4l-cx23418-cpu.fw MXL5005S: Attached at address 0x63 DVB: registering adapter 1 frontend 0 (Samsung S5H1409 QAM/8VSB Frontend)... cx18-0: DVB Frontend registered cx18-0: Registered DVB adapter1 for TS (32 x 32.00 kB) cx18-0: Registered device video34 for encoder YUV (20 x 101.25 kB) cx18-0: Registered device vbi2 for encoder VBI (20 x 51984 bytes) cx18-0: Registered device video26 for encoder PCM audio (256 x 4.00 kB) cx18-0: Initialized card: Hauppauge HVR-1600 cx18: End initialization cx18-alsa: module loading... cx18-0: loaded v4l-cx23418-cpu.fw firmware (158332 bytes) cx18 0000:01:00.0: firmware: requesting v4l-cx23418-apu.fw cx18-0: loaded v4l-cx23418-apu.fw firmware V00120000 (141200 bytes) cx18-0: FW version: 0.0.74.0 (Release 2007/03/12) cx18 0000:01:00.0: firmware: requesting v4l-cx23418-cpu.fw cx18 0000:01:00.0: firmware: requesting v4l-cx23418-apu.fw cx18 0000:01:00.0: firmware: requesting v4l-cx23418-dig.fw cx18-0 843: loaded v4l-cx23418-dig.fw firmware (16382 bytes) cx18-0 843: verified load of v4l-cx23418-dig.fw firmware (16382 bytes) readahead-collector: starting delayed service auditd readahead-collector: sorting readahead-collector: finished -- hda-intel: Invalid position buffer, using LPIB read method instead. hda-intel: IRQ timing workaround is activated for card #0. Suggest a bigger bdl_pos_adj. fuse init (API version 7.13) cx18-0: ignoring gop_end: not (yet?) supported by the firmware cx18-0: ignoring gop_end: not (yet?) supported by the firmware cx18-0: Could not find MDL 1 for stream encoder MPEG cx18-0: Skipped encoder MPEG, MDL 0, 32 times - it must have dropped out of rotation cx18-0: Skipped encoder VBI, MDL 130, 9 times - it must have dropped out of rotation cx18-0: Could not find MDL 130 for stream encoder VBI usb 2-4.2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6 cx18-0: Could not find MDL 75 for stream TS cx18-0: Skipped encoder VBI, MDL 120, 19 times - it must have dropped out of rotation cx18-0: ignoring gop_end: not (yet?) supported by the firmware cx18-0: Skipped encoder MPEG, MDL 44, 5 times - it must have dropped out of rotation cx18-0: Skipped TS, MDL 75, 31 times - it must have dropped out of rotation usb 2-4.2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6 usb 2-4.2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6 usb 2-4.2: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6 At present I do not have an /etc/modprobe.conf file or and /etc/modprobe.d/cx18.conf or any /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf which mentions cx18. I also checked the /etc/sysconfig/modules folder and found nothing relevent to the cx18 modules. Checking the current NOT WORKING config with v4l2-ctl I get the following: [bob@mythbox ~]$ v4l2-ctl -d 2 --all Driver Info (not using libv4l2): Driver name : cx18 Card type : Hauppauge HVR-1600 Bus info : PCI:0000:01:00.0 Driver version: 3.2.0 Capabilities : 0x01030051 Video Capture VBI Capture Sliced VBI Capture Tuner Audio Read/Write Format Video Capture: Width/Height : 720/480 Pixel Format : 'MPEG' Field : Interlaced Bytes per Line: 0 Size Image : 131072 Colorspace : Broadcast NTSC/PAL (SMPTE170M/ITU601) Format Sliced VBI Capture: Service Set : cc Service Line 0: / Service Line 1: / Service Line 2: / Service Line 3: / Service Line 4: / Service Line 5: / Service Line 6: / Service Line 7: / Service Line 8: / Service Line 9: / Service Line 10: cc / cc Service Line 11: cc / cc Service Line 12: cc / cc Service Line 13: cc / cc Service Line 14: cc / cc Service Line 15: cc / cc Service Line 16: cc / cc Service Line 17: cc / cc Service Line 18: cc / cc Service Line 19: cc / cc Service Line 20: cc / cc Service Line 21: cc / cc Service Line 22: / Service Line 23: / I/O Size : 2304 Format VBI Capture: Sampling Rate : 27000000 Hz Offset : 248 samples (9.18519e-06 secs after leading edge) Samples per Line: 1440 Sample Format : GREY Start 1st Field : 10 Count 1st Field : 12 Start 2nd Field : 273 Count 2nd Field : 12 Crop Capability Video Capture: Bounds : Left 0, Top 0, Width 720, Height 480 Default : Left 0, Top 0, Width 720, Height 480 Pixel Aspect: 10/11 Video input : 0 (Tuner 1: ok) Audio input : 0 (Tuner 1) Frequency: 1076 (67.250000 MHz) Video Standard = 0x0000b000 NTSC-M/M-JP/M-KR Streaming Parameters Video Capture: Frames per second: 29.970 (30000/1001) Read buffers : 0 Tuner: Name : cx18 TV Tuner Capabilities : 62.5 kHz multi-standard stereo lang1 lang2 Frequency range : 44.0 MHz - 958.0 MHz Signal strength/AFC : 100%/0 Current audio mode : lang1 Available subchannels: mono Priority: 2 I'll end here and hope for someone to have an idea as I've about exhausted my brain on this. Sincerely, Bob Lightfoot -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
