Where are audio devices listed in Maverick?(SOLVED)

[Detonate]

Trying to get my PVR-150 tuner card working in Maverick.
I can't find what to put where it wants the audio device in VLC.
In previous releases the devices were listed in /dev as audio, audio1, audio2, etc.
There are no listings in /dev for any audio devices in Maverick.
Any ideas?

[GreyGeek]

Re: Where are audio devices listed in Maverick?

http://marksnotebook.com/PVR-150_capture

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Installin...river_packages

[Detonate]

Re: Where are audio devices listed in Maverick?

Well, I had mine working perfectly for several years using VLC.
Watched TV everyday on it.
And I figured out you don't have to specify an audio device unless you wish to play alternate audio
with the video feed. I got it working, but the picture is all jumbled. Still playing with it.

[GreyGeek]

Re: Where are audio devices listed in Maverick?

Are you in the USA? All TV has gone HDTV. Does the 150 support that?

[Detonate]

Re: Where are audio devices listed in Maverick?

I'm on Dish Network, and that is not a problem. The device worked perfectly up until about a
three months ago when I totally lost everything. Could not get a picture or sound. That was in
Karmic. Upgraded to Lucid, no help. Installed Maverick, I get a picture and sound (the sound
works perfectly) but the picture is garbled. this is the command I use to launch it. Maybe some
one with a lot of knowledge of VLC can tell me something. And it could be that the card is bad. It
is about three years old and I have used it a lot. I had a VHS player hooked to it to convert my
old VHS tapes and it worked great for that. I have an HVR-1250 but that will only work with
HDTV which I don't have yet, won't work with the analog feed.

vlc pvr:// :pvr-device="/dev/video1" :pvr-norm=0 :pvr-frequency=-1 
:pvr-bitrate=-1

[verndog]

Re: Where are audio devices listed in Maverick?

Are you in the USA? All TV has gone HDTV. Does the 150 support that?

Not HDTV, but all digital.

[Detonate]

Re: Where are audio devices listed in Maverick?(SOLVED)

I GOT IT WORKING

The problem was it was trying to run in some other format than NTSC. I don't know what the default is but it is not NTSC.

For anyone else searching the forum for getting their Hauppauge PVR-150 working with VLC, here is the command line code to launch it.

vlc pvr:// :pvr-device=/dev/video1 :pvr-radio-device=/dev/radio0 :pvr-norm=45056
 :pvr-width=-1 :pvr-height=-1 :pvr-frequency=-1 :pvr-framerate=-1 :pvr-keyint=-1 
:pvr-bframes=-1 :pvr-bitrate=-1 :pvr-bitrate-peak=-1 :pvr-bitrate-mode=0 :pvr-audio-
bitmask=-1 :pvr-audio-volume=-1 :pvr-channel=2 :file-caching=300

Note that I am using channel 2 which is for composite. Use 3 for S-video and 1 for tuner. If using the tuner you will also have to specify the frequency.

[Detonate]

Re: Where are audio devices listed in Maverick?(SOLVED)

Some more experimentation shows that many of the values in the code above are
default settings and don't need to be included. Here is a trimmed down version that works.

vlc pvr:// :pvr-device=/dev/video1 :pvr-norm=45056 :pvr-channel=2 :file-caching=300 --sout-transcode-fps 100

If you want to use this code you will have to modify it for your installation.
The device may have a different listing in /dev, the norm is for US, if you
are located somewhere else you need to change that, the channel is for
composite, the last entry for output fps can be increased to take out some
of the blur when watching fast moving things like sports. I think the default is 50 fps.

See

vlc --longhelp[/for more info. Later today I will post the 
code to open vlc in capture mode. If you can watch it, you can record it.

[Detonate]

Re: Where are audio devices listed in Maverick?(SOLVED)

OK, here is the code to start VLC to play and capture your PVR card.

vlc pvr:// :pvr-device="/dev/video1" :pvr-radio-device="/dev/radio0" :pvr-norm=45056 :pvr-frequency=-1 :pvr-bitrate=-1
 --sout '#duplicate{dst=display,dst=std{access=file,mux=ts ,dst="/home/floyd/Videos/output.mpg"}'