Re: [BLUG] Hauppauge PVR-150 s-video capture problems

Chris - that looks very promising. I hope to test it tonight.

Thank you to all,
Peter

On Thursday 02 August 2007 12:46, Chris Shelton wrote:
> Michael,
>
> On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 at 11:55am, Michael Schultheiss wrote:
> > Peter G. Brown wrote:
> > > I tried switching channels with no success. I checked this website in
> > > the hope (and others) that might see a use with s-video. I did not
> > > find any.
> >
> > You don't want to switch channels, you want to switch inputs. You're
> > still dealing with the F connector from what I can tell. If you get the
> > card to switch to the S-video you should be golden.
>
> I have a PVR-150 in my home mythtv box, and with a bit of digging, I
> think I've found the way to switch inputs -- v4l2-ctl. Under gentoo,
> this a part of the media-tv/ivtv package.
>
>
> mythtv mythtv # v4l2-ctl --list-inputs
> ioctl: VIDIOC_ENUMINPUT
> Input : 0
> Name : Tuner 1
> Type : 0x00000001
> Audioset: 0x00000007
> Tuner : 0x00000000
> Standard: 0x0000000000001000 ( NTSC )
> Status : 0
>
> Input : 1
> Name : S-Video 1
> Type : 0x00000002
> Audioset: 0x00000007
> Tuner : 0x00000000
> Standard: 0x0000000000FFFFFF ( PAL NTSC SECAM )
> Status : 0
>
> Input : 2
> Name : Composite 1
> Type : 0x00000002
> Audioset: 0x00000007
> Tuner : 0x00000000
> Standard: 0x0000000000FFFFFF ( PAL NTSC SECAM )
> Status : 0
>
> Input : 3
> Name : S-Video 2
> Type : 0x00000002
> Audioset: 0x00000007
> Tuner : 0x00000000
> Standard: 0x0000000000FFFFFF ( PAL NTSC SECAM )
> Status : 0
>
> Input : 4
> Name : Composite 2
> Type : 0x00000002
> Audioset: 0x00000007
> Tuner : 0x00000000
> Standard: 0x0000000000FFFFFF ( PAL NTSC SECAM )
> Status : 0
>
> mythtv mythtv # v4l2-ctl --get-input
> Video input : 0 (Tuner 1)
> mythtv mythtv # v4l2-ctl --set-input=1
> Video input set to 1 (S-Video 1)
>
>
> I haven't verified this, but it certainly looks like this is what you
> need to switch the currently active input on the PVR-150.
>
> chris
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