[Freevo-users] freevo pvr questions...

[Pascal S. <sch...@sc...>]

Hi,

I'm changing parts of my configuration (it seems that I'm not able to 
have a stable HTPC !), and I have an information and a question :

The information (maybe a "well known secret" :-) )

I never was able to use the ivtv_xine plugin if my PVR card was not 
linked to /dev/video0.

Finally having a look in the source code of xine-lib, is it true that 
/dev/video0 is an hardcoded default value, but a solution exists. If the 
config file (I did the test with ~/.xine/config, but I believe that a 
general file also exists) contains the next line, then the pvr:// mode 
use the selected /dev/video device, instead of /dev/video0 :

# device used for WinTV-PVR 250/350 (pvr plugin)
# string, default: /dev/video0
media.wintv_pvr.device:/dev/video2

The question :

(I didn't dig very far, for now, so the answer could be obvious)

I'm trying to use an external tuner. I created my own, derived from 
irsend_generic (because at the moment, I use my TV as tuner, and to 
select a two numbers channel, my TV need some magic tips). This is 
working great ... when watching video. If I try to record a show, the 
channel simply doesn't change, without any error messages.
In the recordserver-{UID}.log, I can see that the plugins was selected. 
But no channels change. The record is OK.

Here are the (hopefully) relevant informations from local_conf.py :

plugin.remove('tv.generic_record')
plugin_record = plugin.activate('tv.ivtv_record')

plugin.remove('tv.mplayer')
plugin.activate('tv.ivtv_xine_tv')

TV_VIDEO_GROUPS = [
    VideoGroup(vdev='/dev/video2',
               adev=None,
               input_type='composite',
               input_num=1,
               tuner_norm='SECAM_L',
               tuner_type='external',
               desc='Hauppauge PVR USB 2',
               group_type='ivtv')
]
# plugin for ir blasting for channel change
plugin_external_tuner = plugin.activate('tv.irsend_generic2',
                        args=('/usr/bin/irsend --count=5 SEND_ONCE RM-883'))

Thanks,
Pascal