From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-ea0-f171.google.com ([209.85.215.171]:49205 "EHLO mail-ea0-f171.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751002AbaBTJbX (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Feb 2014 04:31:23 -0500 Received: by mail-ea0-f171.google.com with SMTP id f15so775006eak.30 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 01:31:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (93-45-234-219.ip104.fastwebnet.it. [93.45.234.219]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id j42sm11416265eep.21.2014.02.20.01.31.18 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 20 Feb 2014 01:31:20 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <5305CB65.5000706@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 10:31:17 +0100 From: Caterpillar MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-media@vger.kernel.org Subject: tvtime and Pinnacle PCTV 72e Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi. I am writing to you because I am helping a Fedora user that has problems using tvtime with its Pinnacle Systems, Inc. PCTV 72e [DiBcom DiB7000PC] Before he asked for my help, the user said he managed to work the card with its webcam, but not with the DBV-T Pinnacle card (USB). He says also to have a PCI DVB-S card installed in the system. by default settings, if he executes tvtime from bash, he will get |||=========================================|| $ tvtime Running tvtime 1.0.2. Reading configuration from /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml Reading configuration from /home/italman71/.tvtime/tvtime.xml videoinput: Cannot open capture device /dev/device0: File o directory non esistente mixer: find error: Successo mixer: Can't open mixer default, mixer volume and mute unavailable. mixer: Can't open device default/Line, mixer volume and mute unavailable. |||=========================================|| but as you can see from ls /dev/ ( http://pastebin.com/vGYaD1mY ) there is not a |/dev/device0 but other interesting devices like video0, video1, v4l, dvb He did some unsuccessfull tries, for example | |||=========================================|| $ tvtime --device /dev/video1 Running tvtime 1.0.2. Reading configuration from /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml Reading configuration from /home/italman71/.tvtime/tvtime.xml mixer: find error: Successo mixer: Can't open mixer default, mixer volume and mute unavailable. mixer: Can't open device default/Line, mixer volume and mute unavailable. Thank you for using tvtime. ||||=========================================|| it gave to the user a black screen, so I told him to try video0, but it seemed to be the output of computer webcam | ||=========================================|| ||tvtime --device /dev/video0 Running tvtime 1.0.2. Reading configuration from /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml Reading configuration from /home/italman71/.tvtime/tvtime.xml videoinput: Driver won't tell us its norm: ioctl non appropriata per il device videoinput: Can't get tuner info: ioctl non appropriata per il device Your capture card driver: uvcvideo [UVC Camera (046d:081d)/usb-0000:00:12.2-1/200192] does not support full size studio-quality images required by tvtime. This is true for many low-quality webcams. Please select a different video device for tvtime to use with the command line option --device. mixer: find error: Successo mixer: Can't open mixer default, mixer volume and mute unavailable. mixer: Can't open device default/Line, mixer volume and mute unavailable. Thank you for using tvtime ========================================= At this point I don't know what I can do to manage to work the device with tvtime. Do you have any suggestions? Downhere you can find a lot of useful infos collected from the system ||||lspci http://pastebin.com/Q2bdZiSq| |ls /dev/ http://pastebin.com/vGYaD1mY lsusb http://pastebin.com/gFSKZcME lsmod http://pastebin.com/QpYUai90tree /dev/dvb http://pastebin.com/Sf0vewWc dmesg|grep DiBhttp://pastebin.com/a7M0HwRA dmesg|grep Pinnacle http://pastebin.com/zzDcKfN4 dmesg|tail http://pastebin.com/gsimDTAd Thank you for your time