[pvrusb2] My First Post

[Mike Isely]

On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Martin Galese wrote:

> Hi Santiago,
>
> The WinTV-PVR-USB2 is definitely compatible with MythTV. That's how I
> watch all of my TV. With older versions of the driver the resolution
> and video bitrate settings inside MythTV have no effect. Apparently,
> newer versions support this, at least on some hardware. I just
> manually set the resolution and bitrate from a sys interface.
>
> Everything else is pretty seamless.
>

Unless MythTV has already implemented use of the new MPEG APIs, _and_ you 
are running a 2.6.18-preX kernel or are using the pvrusb2 driver inside of 
the V4L repository, then you still need to use the sysfs interface to set 
pretty much all of the unusual properties except for resolution.

I did commit a change to the driver that implements VIDIOC_S_FMT correctly 
now so MythTV is able to control the capture resolution.  (Unfortunately 
this also uncovered the unsolved "horizontal resolution must be 720" 
problem if you are using a 24xxx series device - and that's an issue 
because the default capture horizontal resolution in MythTV is 480 so you 
have to change it.)

   -Mike

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