PVR-350 and MythTV

The card must be set as a IVTV MPEG encoder in mythtv-setup and not a V4L analog device, which is detected by default...

udev and mythtv

To make sure the V4L devices are assigned a constant symlink in /dev, I added the file 99-PVR350.rules in /etc/udev/rules.d with this content:

KERNEL=="video[0-9]*", ATTR{name}=="ivtv0 encoder MPG", SYMLINK+="PVR350"

after I identified the ATTR{name} string with
udevadm info -a -p $(udevadm info -q path -n /dev/video0)

Otherwise, the webcam was assign to /dev/video0 some times with bad consequences..

Will be useful for two TV tuners.

ivtv, mythtv, pvr-350

iIt is not possible to fast-forward at more than 3x or rewind without a picture freeze with the ivtv driver + tv-out checked in mythtv (this option allows to decode with the pvr-350, so that the CPU runs near 0%). Uncheck this option to fast-forward and rewind normally at all speed (sticky keys needs to be checked in mythtv).

kdmrc multiseat mythtv

[General]
# This option exists solely for the purpose of a clean automatic upgrade.
# Do not even think about changing it!
ConfigVersion=2.3
# List of permanent displays. Displays with a hostname are foreign. A display
# class may be specified separated by an underscore.
# Default is ":0"
StaticServers=:0,:1
# List of on-demand displays. See StaticServers for syntax.
# Default is ""
ReserveServers=:2,:3,:4,:5
# VTs to allocate to X-servers. A negative number means that the VT will be
# used only if it is free. If all VTs in this list are used up, the next free
# one greater than the last one in this list will be allocated.
# Default is ""
ServerVTs=-7


[X-:0-Core]
ClientLogFile=.xsession-errors
ServerArgsLocal=-nolisten tcp -layout layout1

# Greeter config for 1st local display
AutoLoginEnable=false
AutoLoginUser=


[X-:1-Core]
ServerArgsLocal=-nolisten tcp -layout Myth -novtswitch -sharevts
AutoLoginEnable=true
AutoLoginUser=mythtv
ClientLogFile=.xsession-errors

Mandriva 2008.1 and mythtv

Strange problem (hardware ?) with ivtv where
tveeprom 1-0050: Encountered bad packet header [ff]. Corrupt or not a Hauppauge eeprom.
appears in dmesg.

Tuner is then set to wrong type.
I added
options ivtv tuner=47 in /etc/modprobe.conf to solve
tuner=39 also works...

ref

MythTV upgrade from 0.19 to 0.20

Scheduled recordings failed after upgrade to 0.20, had to run mythtv-setup, delete all the sources and rebuild them:
see this post.

Also, links to mpegs in mythweb resulted in errors because the .htaccess file was not copied with the rest. Copying the .htaccess from version 0.20 corrected the problem.

I was unable to compile the ivtvdev driver for TV out on the PVR-350 for Mandriva 2007. A binary from here, copied to /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers did the job. Here is another post describing the problem.