Re: [linux-dvb] Hauppauge HVR-1800 not working at all

[Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>]

George Czerw wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 June 2009 15:56:08 Devin Heitmueller wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 3:48 PM, George Czerw<gczerw@comcast.net> wrote:
>>     
>>> Devin, thanks for the reply.
>>>
>>> Lsmod showed that "tuner" was NOT loaded (wonder why?), a "modprobe
>>> tuner" took care of that and now the HVR-1800 is displaying video
>>> perfectly and the tuning function works.  I guess that I'll have to add
>>> "tuner" into modprobe.preload.d????  Now if only I can get the sound
>>> functioning along with the video!
>>>
>>> George
>>>       
>> Admittedly, I don't know why you would have to load the tuner module
>> manually on the HVR-1800.  I haven't had to do this on other products?
>>
>> If you are doing raw video capture, then you need to manually tell
>> applications where to find the ALSA device that provides the audio.
>> If you're capturing via the MPEG encoder, then the audio will be
>> embedded in the stream.
>>
>> Devin
>>     
>
> I don't understand why the audio/mpeg ports of the HVR-1800 don't show up in 
> output of lspci:
>
> 03:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Conexant Systems, Inc. Device 8880 (rev 
> 0f)
>         Subsystem: Hauppauge computer works Inc. Device 7801                    
>         Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17                       
>         Memory at f9c00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2M]                 
>         Capabilities: [40] Express Endpoint, MSI 00                             
>         Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2                           
>         Capabilities: [90] Vital Product Data                                   
>         Capabilities: [a0] MSI: Mask- 64bit+ Count=1/1 Enable-                  
>         Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting                            
>         Capabilities: [200] Virtual Channel <?>                                 
>         Kernel driver in use: cx23885                                           
>         Kernel modules: cx23885
>
>
> even though the dmesg output clearly shows this:
>
> tveeprom 0-0050: decoder processor is CX23887 (idx 37) 
> tveeprom 0-0050: audio processor is CX23887 (idx 42)
>
>
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Please try this:

When you have tvtime open and running with video working already, do:

mplayer /dev/video1

(assuming that tvtime is open on video0)

Then, you'll get mplayer complete with both audio and video.

-Mike