umm, kinda.
Since I was talking to you a few weeks ago I bought a PVR-150 pci card.
This isn't working with my Wintv-USB...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mlists" <mlists@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "VDR Mailing List" <vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 12:32 PM
Subject: Re: Re: pvrinput - NTSC doesn't work - SUCCESS!
Wow, so you got this working now? I might just have to try it again! :)
On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 12:16 -0700, Simon Baxter wrote:
> Thanks - it works a treat now.
>
> diff -Naur device.c.org device.c.patched
> --- device.c.org 2006-06-21 12:08:56.000000000 -0700
> +++ device.c.patched 2006-06-21 12:00:13.000000000 -0700
> @@ -502,9 +502,9 @@
> tsBuffer = new cRingBufferLinear(MEGABYTE(3), TS_SIZE, false,
> "PVRTS");
> tsBuffer->SetTimeouts(100, 100);
> readThread = new cPvrReadThread(video_fd, vbi_fd, tsBuffer,
> &mutex);
> - SetVideoNorm(videoNormPAL);
> + SetVideoNorm(videoNormNTSC);
> SetCodec();
> - SetVideoSize(720, 576);
> + SetVideoSize(720, 480);
> SetInput(tunerInput);
> SetPicture(PvrSetup.Brightness, PvrSetup.Contrast,
> PvrSetup.Saturation, PvrSetup.Hue);
> SetVolume(PvrSetup.AudioVolume);
> @@ -653,7 +653,7 @@
> {
> SetVideoNorm(lastNorm);
> SetCodec();
> - SetVideoSize(720, 576);
> + SetVideoSize(720, 480);
> SetInput(lastInput);
> SetPicture(PvrSetup.Brightness, PvrSetup.Contrast,
> PvrSetup.Saturation, PvrSetup.Hue);
> SetVolume(PvrSetup.AudioVolume);
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jose Alberto Reguero" <jareguero@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "VDR Mailing List" <vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 11:53 AM
> Subject: Re: Re: pvrinput - NTSC doesn't work - some progress
>
>
> El Miércoles, 21 de Junio de 2006 19:50, Simon Baxter escribió:
> > Thankyou for everyone's suggestion - but I'm not trying to play NTSC
> > content, I'm trying to watch/record it via the pvrinput plugin
> >
> > >>> I also guess you patched your VDR for NTSC, so maybe it just can't
> > >>> playback your pvrinput stream if it's looking like you described, be
> > >>> it
> > >>> live or recorded, as it seems to be PAL...
> > >>
> > >> Patched VDR for NTSC? Nope - I must have missed something??
> > >
> > > Well, I remember there was a thread even this year in which Klaus was
> > > admitting he should make this configurable after version 1.4 is
> > > polished
> > > http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/2006-April/008726.html
> > > The attached patch was sent by C.Y.M. by that time, and looking to it,
> > > it seems it could make a difference, as it hard-codes the frame rate
> > > in
> > > recording.h among other things. I just tried if it cleanly applies to
> > > vdr-1.4.1 and it does, so give it a try.
> >
> > No, it's not VDR that seems to be causing the problem. To clarify, this
> > is
> > my setup:
> > -vdr 1.4.0
> > -Shuttle SK43G PC with s-video output
> > -Unichrome drivers for NTSC tv-out
> > -USA NTSC Television
> > -PVR-150 (NTSC only)
> > -xine plugin
> >
> > VDR works fine. I can use it to watch old (PAL) recordings made in the
> > UK,
> > watch .avi files, play mp3s, play DVDs etc
> >
> > > Yes, and don't forget that "Frames per GOP" setting, maybe that one is
> > > important, too. In the end maybe it starts working with both of these
> > > patches.
> >
> > I set this too, with no affect.
> >
> > I have made one change which seems to have changed the output slightly.
> > I
> > applied the following changes to pvrinput:
> > diff -Naur device.c device.c.SBB
> > --- device.c 2006-06-21 09:46:01.000000000 -0700
> > +++ device.c.SBB 2006-06-21 08:11:14.000000000 -0700
> > @@ -504,7 +504,7 @@
> > readThread = new cPvrReadThread(video_fd, vbi_fd, tsBuffer,
> > &mutex); SetVideoNorm(videoNormPAL);
>
> The norm (PAL,NTSC,..) is setting in:
>
> SetVideoNorm()
>
> You can try changing:
>
> SetVideoNorm(videoNormPAL);
> to
> SetVideoNorm(videoNormNTSC)
>
> Jose Alberto
>
> > SetCodec();
> > - SetVideoSize(720, 576);
> > + SetVideoSize(720, 480);
> > SetInput(tunerInput);
> > SetPicture(PvrSetup.Brightness, PvrSetup.Contrast,
> > PvrSetup.Saturation, PvrSetup.Hue);
> > SetVolume(PvrSetup.AudioVolume);
> > @@ -653,7 +653,7 @@
> > {
> > SetVideoNorm(lastNorm);
> > SetCodec();
> > - SetVideoSize(720, 576);
> > + SetVideoSize(720, 480);
> > SetInput(lastInput);
> > SetPicture(PvrSetup.Brightness, PvrSetup.Contrast,
> > PvrSetup.Saturation, PvrSetup.Hue);
> > SetVolume(PvrSetup.AudioVolume);
> >
> > Now the file that's being recorded is:
> > MPEG-PS file format detected.
> > VIDEO: MPEG2 720x480 (aspect 2) 25.000 fps 6000.0 kbps (750.0
> > kbyte/s)
> >
> > The picture now looks like all the information is there, but the
> > frame-rate
> > is still wrong, and I can't see anywhere in the pvrinput sourcecode to
> > change this.
> >
> > I tried taking the recorded 001.vdr, vdrsync.pl-ing it, and then ffmpeg
> > recoding the mpegv2 file to 30fps, but this just made a mess too.
> >
> > As mentioned before, Freevo records and plays the channels fine - but I
> > don't want to use Freevo, the OSD sucks. I can also stream the video
> > device directly to mplayer 'mplayer /dev/video', which plays fine too.
> >
> > any other ideas??
> >
> >
>
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