
mercury.morris at gmail
Nov 16, 2004, 2:53 PM
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OK, so now we know - PCI-card order makes a DIFFERENCE. About /dev/video16, have a look in /usr/share/doc/ivtv-0.1.10/modules.txt -AND- /usr/share/doc/ivtv-0.1.10/README.devices In these two files, you will find out how to use a device OTHER THAN /dev/video0 for output. Specifically, how to use a PVR-350, that is NOT /dev/video0, for output. After I read these two files, I issued this command modprobe ivtv-fb ivtv_fb_card_id=1 and created /dev/video17 using Jarod's guide's example. Then, in MythTV, under the frontend's settings -> TV Settings -> Playback, I set the Video Device for PVR-350 to /dev/video17. And this worked! But, in the other parts of MythTV, mythtvsetup to be specific, I was not successful in getting MythTV to switch or swap /dev/video0 and /dev/video1. I wanted to this SO badly, since only the PVR-350 has TV comming in thru Composite0 - my satellite dish. But MythTV now sees the PVR-350 as /dev/video1 so when I tune the satellite dish - I get a black screen. Looks like I'll have to re-run mythtvsetup and answer [yes][yes] to the two questions and start from scratch, again, for the third or fourth time. How about those ivtv guys! Their code lets you designate which device has the output capability! But I can see how once MythTV has set all the connections between Devices, Input Signals, etc., etc., it would be hard to rearrange everything. -- MM
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