Thank You in advance for reading my post!
I have been for over a year now, on and off trying to get my hvr-1600 to work under Linux. In the past i have tried MythTV, YaVDR, tvheadend, VDR, all installed on different versions and distributions of Linux. Some i get no video at all some i get fuz i have read almost every webpage that has cx18 or hvr-1600 on it but can not figure it out. Recently i have made the attempt again. Here is were i am now:
- Fresh install of Arch with base and base-devel and only a couple additional packages.
- tvheadend-git v3.5_225 from Arch AUR
- v4l-utils 0.9.5-2
- ivtv-utils 1.4.1-5
I would like to build a headless recording box. I currently just have a DVD player connected to the svideo port on the hvr-1600 playing the menu of 24 tv show. Through many tutorials i have been able to force the card to use the svideo port via the command "v4l2-ctl --set-input=1 --set-standard=1" which has got me to see the attached screen capture. I have used ivtv-tune to swich frequency's manually with no change to the picture. I use the command lines only because i can't figure out how to set these within the tvheadend website. I see no option to pick the input nor do i understand how the minimum frequency is 10000 but when i set it using ivtv-tune it shows 625.200 or something like that. Anyway i have attached some additional command exports so you can see logs and initialization logs that might give you more insight into what might be going on.
Any help is appreciated my only option for this card to work right now is Windows 7 and it works perfectly and that just makes me sick... LOL