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| 1 | Some notes regarding the cx18 driver for the Conexant CX23418 MPEG | 1 | Some notes regarding the cx18 driver for the Conexant CX23418 MPEG |
| 2 | encoder chip: | 2 | encoder chip: |
| 3 | 3 | ||
| 4 | 1) The only hardware currently supported is the Hauppauge HVR-1600 | 4 | 1) Currently supported are: |
| 5 | card and the Compro VideoMate H900 (note that this card only | ||
| 6 | supports analog input, it has no digital tuner!). | ||
| 7 | 5 | ||
| 8 | 2) Some people have problems getting the i2c bus to work. Cause unknown. | 6 | - Hauppauge HVR-1600 |
| 9 | The symptom is that the eeprom cannot be read and the card is | 7 | - Compro VideoMate H900 |
| 10 | unusable. | 8 | - Yuan MPC718 |
| 9 | - Conexant Raptor PAL/SECAM devkit | ||
| 11 | 10 | ||
| 12 | 3) The audio from the analog tuner is mono only. Probably caused by | 11 | 2) Some people have problems getting the i2c bus to work. |
| 13 | incorrect audio register information in the datasheet. We are | 12 | The symptom is that the eeprom cannot be read and the card is |
| 14 | waiting for updated information from Conexant. | 13 | unusable. This is probably fixed, but if you have problems |
| 14 | then post to the video4linux or ivtv-users mailinglist. | ||
| 15 | 15 | ||
| 16 | 4) VBI (raw or sliced) has not yet been implemented. | 16 | 3) VBI (raw or sliced) has not yet been implemented. |
| 17 | 17 | ||
| 18 | 5) MPEG indexing is not yet implemented. | 18 | 4) MPEG indexing is not yet implemented. |
| 19 | 19 | ||
| 20 | 6) The driver is still a bit rough around the edges, this should | 20 | 5) The driver is still a bit rough around the edges, this should |
| 21 | improve over time. | 21 | improve over time. |
| 22 | 22 | ||
| 23 | 23 | ||
| 24 | Firmware: | 24 | Firmware: |
| 25 | 25 | ||
| 26 | The firmware needs to be extracted from the Windows Hauppauge HVR-1600 | 26 | You can obtain the firmware files here: |
| 27 | driver, available here: | ||
| 28 | |||
| 29 | http://hauppauge.lightpath.net/software/install_cd/hauppauge_cd_3.4d1.zip | ||
| 30 | 27 | ||
| 31 | Unzip, then copy the following files to the firmware directory | 28 | http://dl.ivtvdriver.org/ivtv/firmware/cx18-firmware.tar.gz |
| 32 | and rename them as follows: | ||
| 33 | 29 | ||
| 34 | Drivers/Driver18/hcw18apu.rom -> v4l-cx23418-apu.fw | 30 | Untar and copy the .fw files to your firmware directory. |
| 35 | Drivers/Driver18/hcw18enc.rom -> v4l-cx23418-cpu.fw | ||
| 36 | Drivers/Driver18/hcw18mlC.rom -> v4l-cx23418-dig.fw | ||