[Pvrusb-user] Getting pvrusb2 to work...

[Mike I. <is...@is...>]

This morning I came across Bruno Grieder's post about pvrusb2.  One
paragraph in particular is:

> The pvrusb2 drive I use is that of Aur=E9lien Allleaume
> pvrusb2-dev-07112004.tar.bz2
> <http://justiceforall.free.fr/pvrusb2-dev-07112004.tar.bz2>
> Mike Isely (http://www.isely.net/pvrusb2.html) picked up hiw work and
> made a more recent version but it never worked for me.

I am in the middle of a large restructuring of the pvrusb2 driver, but I=
'd
certainly hope that it continues to work as well as it has in earlier
versions.  I'd therefore like very much to know the nature of the proble=
m
here so that I can correct it in newer snapshots of the driver.  Bruno:
I can't contact you directly since the mailing list archive does not sho=
w
full e-mail addresses.  So please contact me.  Use the e-mail address
showing at http://www.isely.net/pvrusb2.html (top of the page).  Or send
to my sourceforge username "mcisely" and I should see the message.

For others here - The Hauppauge "PVR USB2" device is a different animal
than the device that this sourceforge project is aimed at.  So I imagine
this isn't the appropriate place to eat bandwidth discussing it.  If the=
re
is enough demand, I can set up an alternate list elsewhere.  In any case=
,
if anyone has questions - don't hesitate to contact me via the address o=
n
my web page.  The more feedback I get, the better I can make this driver
and its associated documentation.

  -Mike

p.s.

There was also an earlier post here about lack of audio with this driver
(subject =3D "msp34x5g.c: pvr_audio_setvolume: mute=3Don v=3D0x00 b=3D0x=
00").
Cat'ing /dev/video0 to a file normally will work perfectly well.  The
problem is that the driver might have the audio muted.  My snapshot of t=
he
driver starts off with the audio UNmuted so that normally isn't an issue=
.
HOWEVER, xawtv will mute the audio upon exit, so if you run xawtv first
then you won't have any audio when you then try to capture the stream.  =
I
imagine there's probably a way with v4lctl to correct it manually.
Alternatively, my more recent driver snapshots also include a sysfs
interface, which you can manipulate at the shell to query / set any
control in the driver (including of course mute).


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