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[Steven Ourada <790099@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I just tried the PPA version (2:0.24.1+fixes.20110609.4dec7cf-
0ubuntu0mythbuntu3) and it seems to work. I see that you removed the
V4L2 patch from before, which seemed to be the cause of my problem.

Thanks, I'll run off the PPA version for now, then.

(I'm not very familiar with the Launchpad workflow. How do I indicate
that I am happy now? Or do I leave it up to you all to change the
status?)

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Title:
  Can't record analog TV with WinTV HVR-950Q

Status in “mythtv” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I was not able to record analog TV with the WinTV HVR-950Q with MythTV
  in Natty. The logs were not very helpful even with --setverbose all;
  the actual failure point is not logged.

  In gdb, I narrowed the problem down to this: in
  NuppelVideoRecorder.cpp ( http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-
  branches/ubuntu/natty/mythtv/natty/view/head:/mythtv/libs/libmythtv/NuppelVideoRecorder.cpp
  ), StartVideoRecording was always failing at line 1076, because
  usingv4l2 is set and SetFormatV4L2 is a dummy function that always
  returns false. This is apparently because of the ifdefs related to
  V4L/V4L2.

  I reworked the ifdefs a bit, mimicking what I saw for other V4L stuff,
  so that the SetFormatV4L2 and DoV4L2 functions were defined correctly.
  I left DoV4L and DoMJPEG hollowed out since they don't compile and I
  don't care about 'em.

  After that, I was able to record analog through V4L in MythTV. Here are the main parameters I set in MythTV, just in case they aren't all obvious:
  In mythtv-setup:
    Video device: /dev/video0
    Audio device: ALSA:hw:CARD=HVR950Q,DEV=0
    Force audio sampling rate: 48000
  In mythfrontend, software encoders:
    Width: 720
    Height: 480
    Video codec: MPEG4
    Audio codec: MP3
    Sampling rate: 48000

  Here's the patch from the original source to my modified version:
  1141c1141
  < #if defined(USING_V4L) || defined(USING_V4L2)
  ---
  > #ifdef USING_V4L
  1144d1143
  < #ifdef USING_V4L
  1327d1325
  < #endif
  1731d1728
  < #ifdef USING_V4L
  1864d1860
  < #endif
  1867c1863
  < #else  // USING_V4L || USING_V4L2
  ---
  > #else  // USING_V4L
  1872c1868
  < #endif // USING_V4L || USING_V4L2
  ---
  > #endif // USING_V4L

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