bram@lambiek:/lib/modules$ md5sum ivtv-fw-* 305dba74bbe5905447add8883f3ecb68 ivtv-fw-dec.bin ab75947ef1b086e26f9b08e628baa02e ivtv-fw-enc.bin
The PVR350 I have, came with a Philips FM1216 ME Mk3 tuner. I could not get the tuner to find any stations, unless I added an option to the module loading:
modprobe ivtv tda9887=0
To test the card, you should use the utility that comes with ivty, called ivtvctl. First check if the settings are OK with
$ ./ivtvctl -FUP
ioctl: VIDIOC_G_FMT
Type : Video Capture
Width : 720
Height : 576
ioctl: VIDIOC_G_INPUT
Input = 4
ioctl: VIDIOC_G_STD
Standard = 0x000000ff
0xff means PAL, and Input 4 is the tuner input.
If correct, grab some video with
cat /dev/video0 > /tmp/foo.mpeg Ctrl-C ls -al /tmp/foo.mpeg mplayer /tmp/foo.mpeg
To scan for stations on your network, you can use the scantv utility. To select channels, you can use the perl scripts in the util dir of ivtv. You can play back the video using the onboard MPEG decoder, by copying it to the /dev/video16 device.
You can use PVR software called MythTV. MythTV is available in the 'multiverse' section of Ubuntu. You need to add this to your /etc/apt/sources.list file, as Ubuntu does not use multiverse by default.
For using the remote control, you need to build the lirc package from source, and use the lirc-i2c kernel module. The ir-kbd-i2c did not work properly for me. Although I saw key presses in my x terminal, the mapping was all mixed up, and most keys were designated as 'unknown'.
I could not find a complete .lircrc for this remote, to work with mplayer, so I wrote my own.
First, I established which keys are available on the pvr 350 remote.
These are the keys:
#
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Asterix
Back/Exit
Blue
Ch-
Ch+
Down
Forward
Go
Green
Guide
Left
Menu/i
Music
Mute
OK
Pause
Pictures
Play
Power
Prev.Ch
Radio
Record
Red
Replay/SkipBackward
Rewind
Right
SkipForward
Stop
TV
Up
Videos
Vol-
Vol+
Yellow
These keys can be mapped to the folowing commands, known to my mplayer:
seek Float [Integer]
edl_mark
audio_delay Float
speed_incr Float
speed_mult Float
speed_set Float
quit [Integer]
pause
frame_step
grab_frames
pt_step Integer [Integer]
pt_up_step Integer [Integer]
alt_src_step Integer
sub_delay Float [Integer]
sub_step Integer [Integer]
osd [Integer]
osd_show_text String
volume Integer [Integer]
use_master
mute
contrast Integer [Integer]
gamma Integer [Integer]
brightness Integer [Integer]
hue Integer [Integer]
saturation Integer [Integer]
frame_drop [Integer]
sub_pos Integer [Integer]
sub_alignment [Integer]
sub_visibility
vobsub_lang [Integer]
sub_select [Integer]
sub_log
get_percent_pos
get_time_length
switch_audio
tv_step_channel Integer
tv_step_norm
tv_step_chanlist
tv_set_channel String
tv_last_channel
tv_set_freq Float
tv_set_norm String
tv_set_brightness Integer
tv_set_contrast Integer
tv_set_hue Integer
tv_set_saturation Integer
forced_subs_only
dvb_set_channel Integer Integer
switch_ratio [Float]
vo_fullscreen
vo_ontop
vo_rootwin
screenshot
panscan Float [Integer]
switch_vsync [Integer]
loadfile String
loadlist String
run String
change_rectangle Integer Integer
gui_loadfile
gui_loadsubtitle
gui_about
gui_play
gui_stop
gui_playlist
gui_preferences
gui_skinbrowser
menu String
set_menu String [String]
help
exit
hide [Integer]
get_vo_fullscreen
get_sub_visibility
To get TV-Out working, you need to follow an approach, different from that outlined in the README.ivtvfb documentation. Instead of using the fbdev driver, you need the special purpose ivtvdev driver. The driver is distributed with ivtv source, as a binary X server module. You need to copy this driver to the /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/ivtvdev_drv.o file. The X driver works with both X flavours: XFree and Xorg. Unfortunately, using a dual screen (radeon + pvr tvout) gives me a hard crash with a frozen kernel.
Pitfalls:
Things to do: