[pvrusb2] Can't get Hauppauge HVR-1950 to work

[Lars Maersk]

As it turns out, my problems had simple solutions:

1. Updating the kernel solved the problem on the digital side
2. Switching to a different media player solved the problem with the broken
frames. After trying different players, I found that xine can handle broken
frames without difficulty, it just pauses for a while. I've been playing TV
with xine for 10 hr non stop, and sound and image are still fine. dmesg
shows that the firmware for the encoder has been loaded 4 times so far, but
the interface never got messed up.

Thanks for all the help. I learned a lot from the suggestions and documents
I found here. My next challenges will be lirc and radio, but I'm postponing
those for now.

--
Lars

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Mike Isely <isely at isely.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 15 Nov 2008, Lars Maersk wrote:
>
> > Please excuse my overenthusiasm here, I might be jumping to the wrong
> > conclusions. After playing for a long time, I got again the broken frames
> > error. I checked dmesg and I'm seeing this:
> >
> > cx25840' 1-0044: 0x0000 is not a valid video input!
>
> In digital mode that message is harmless.  It's also harmless if the
> device isn't streaming (once it starts streaming the video input will be
> set).
>
> > firmware: requesting v4l-cx25840.fw
>
> > cx25840' 1-0044: loaded v4l-cx25840.fw firmware (12559 bytes)
> > pvrusb2: ***WARNING*** device's encoder appears to be stuck
> > (status=0x00000003)
> > pvrusb2: Encoder command: 0x82
> > pvrusb2: Giving up on command.  This is normally recovered by the driver.
> > firmware: requesting v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw
> > pvrusb2: ***WARNING*** device's encoder appears to be stuck
> > (status=0x00000003)
> > pvrusb2: Encoder command: 0x81
> > pvrusb2: Giving up on command.  This is normally recovered by the driver.
> > firmware: requesting v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw
> > pvrusb2: ***WARNING*** device's encoder appears to be stuck
> > (status=0x00000003)
> > pvrusb2: Encoder command: 0x81
> > pvrusb2: Giving up on command.  This is normally recovered by the driver.
> > firmware: requesting v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw
> > pvrusb2: ***WARNING*** device's encoder appears to be stuck
> > (status=0x00000003)
> > pvrusb2: Encoder command: 0x81
> > pvrusb2: Giving up on command.  This is normally recovered by the driver.
> > firmware: requesting v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw
>
> Over what interval of time does the above happen?  Seconds?  Minutes?
> Hours?  See my other reply about those messages.
>
> >
> > After resetting the media player and a couple of minutes later:
> >
> > cx25840' 1-0044: 0x0000 is not a valid video input!
> > firmware: requesting v4l-cx25840.fw
> > cx25840' 1-0044: loaded v4l-cx25840.fw firmware (12559 bytes)
>
> > s5h1411_writereg: writereg error 0x19 0xf5 0x0000, ret == -5)
> > s5h1411_writereg: writereg error 0x19 0xf4 0x0001, ret == -5)
>
> I've never seen these messages before (s5h1411 errors).  Those do not
> come from the pvrusb2 driver (likely instead the tuner module).  This
> might be suggestive of a real hardware problem :-(
>
>
> > cx25840' 1-0044: 0x0000 is not a valid video input!
> > firmware: requesting v4l-cx25840.fw
> > cx25840' 1-0044: loaded v4l-cx25840.fw firmware (12559 bytes)
> > cx25840' 1-0044: 0x0000 is not a valid video input!
> >
>
> Have you tried exercising the device under Windows?  (Are you able to
> try it under Windows?)
>
>  -Mike
>
> --
>
> Mike Isely
> isely @ pobox (dot) com
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