[mpeg2] Re: mpex experience

["greg" <greg.wickham@grangenet.net>]

Hi Andrew,

Yer, Mine has a tuner. Thanks for the info.

Gotta eat first but will have a responses for you in the next hour or
two.

Cheers,

   -Greg

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] -----Original Message-----
] From: Andrew de Quincey [mailto:adq_dvb@lidskialf.net]
] Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 9:12 AM
] To: greg; 'Thomas Sparr'; 'Werner John'
] Cc: mpeg2@convergence.de
] Subject: Re: [mpeg2] Re: mpex experience
]
]
] On Saturday 23 August 2003 01:07, greg wrote:
] > Hi Andrew,
] >
] > If you need a test bunny then I'm your guy.
] >
] > I've also hacked together procfs support for getting at some of the
] > status registers of the 7134 (if anyone is interested).
]
] Hiya, here is my latest patch for the MPEX encoder. This is
] against the
] snapshot 20030822 on http://bytesex.org/. Sound is working
] fine now, as is
] video.
]
] There may be a remaining issue: sound can be out of sync when
] you first read
] from the encoder, but gets back in sync within about 20
] seconds. I'm gonna
] try and fix this soon, but I thought you might like to test a
] nearly working
] version ASAP.
]
]
] If you have a card *without* a tuner (as I do):
]
] Unfortunately, BMK have used the same subsystem ID as the
] Philips reference
] board, so theres no good way to tell the BMK board versions apart.
]
] When you load the module, you have to supply "chip=18" as a
] parameter.
]
] If you have more than one board (e.g. 3), you have as many
] 18's as boards
] (i.e. "chip=18,18,18" for 3 boards)
]
] I've numbered the inputs starting from the one nearest the
] screw on the PCI
] connector as there is nothing actually stamped on the card.
]
]
] For the version with the tuner:
]
] Omit the "card=18", and it will be detected as a philips
] encoder reference
] board. I don't know if this will work correctly however, as I
] don't know how
] the inputs are wired up: I had to beep the inputs on my card
] out with a
] voltmeter to work out what was connected to what.
]
] I'm not sure if sound is working for the tuner version. It is
] currently setup
] to read from LINE1. You may need to switch inputs using v4l
] to get sound from
] the tuner.
]