[mythtv-users] How to set channel PIDs
Hi sorry if this has been asked before but Im at the end of my whits now. Ive been fiddling around for about 3 weeks trying to get myth working. Firstly I got a semi supported card (dvico fusion plus) one week later got that working. sorta. using tzap and xine (No sound) Anyway figured id go on with myth and cover the sound problem later. Ive now spent 2 weeks on trying to configure tv. Got just about everything else working (dvd's ripping weather rss and browsing) still no tv. Ive read about a thousand howto's and they mostly talk about entering the video and audio pids. Unless Im completely stupid (quite likely these days) I just cant find anywhere to add them now getting desperate as the wife wants to know where the money and time as gone. Ive been using this guide to configure as this seems to be a little more accurate for Australia http://www.users.on.net/~jani/dvico-mythtv-11.html thanks In advance Brett Stevens OS: Suse 9.3 kernel: patched 2.6.11.2 sound alsa video: adequate (this will be a master backend) myth version: mythtv-0.18.1-12 via apt-get lsmod ... snd_pcm_oss54176 0 snd_mixer_oss 19584 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_via82xx29888 0 snd_ac97_codec 73720 1 snd_via82xx snd_pcm 106760 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec snd_timer 34564 1 snd_pcm snd_mpu401_uart10368 1 snd_via82xx snd_rawmidi30240 1 snd_mpu401_uart snd_seq_device 9484 1 snd_rawmidi snd60772 9 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_m pu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device usbserial 30568 0 button 6928 0 battery 9732 0 ac 5124 0 floppy 65584 0 nvram 13192 0 md5 4608 1 ipv6 271424 12 joydev 10304 0 st 39580 0 sr_mod 19876 0 sg 39200 0 cx88_dvb6660 0 cx8802 12164 1 cx88_dvb mt352 6404 1 cx88_dvb cx88xx 49044 2 cx88_dvb,cx8802 i2c_algo_bit9352 1 cx88xx snd_page_alloc 10500 2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm btcx_risc 5256 2 cx8802,cx88xx gameport5504 1 snd_via82xx videodev 10240 1 cx88xx video_buf_dvb 7300 1 cx88_dvb tg3 100868 0 i2c_viapro 8336 0 soundcore 11232 1 snd ehci_hcd 40328 0 uhci_hcd 34576 0 video_buf 24068 4 cx88_dvb,cx8802,cx88xx,video_buf_dvb video1394 20812 0 parport_pc 29764 1 ohci1394 39300 1 video1394 lp 13064 0 parport42184 2 parport_pc,lp raw139442604 0 ieee1394 315476 3 video1394,ohci1394,raw1394 dm_mod 64148 0 reiserfs 271988 1 aic7xxx 184152 0 sata_promise 10884 0 libata 50052 1 sata_promise sd_mod 19712 0 scsi_mod 144840 7 st,sr_mod,sg,aic7xxx,sata_promise,libata,sd_mod dmesg BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: - 0009cc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0009cc00 - 000a (reserved) BIOS-e820: 000f - 0010 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0010 - 7fffc000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 7fffc000 - 7000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 7000 - 8000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: fec0 - fec01000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: fee0 - fee01000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: - 0001 (reserved) 1151MB HIGHMEM available. 896MB LOWMEM available. On node 0 totalpages: 524284 DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1 Normal zone: 225280 pages, LIFO batch:16 HighMem zone: 294908 pages, LIFO batch:16 DMI 2.3 present. ACPI: RSDP (v000 ASUS ) @ 0x000f6060 ACPI: RSDT (v001 ASUS A7V8X0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x7fffc000 ACPI: FADT (v001 ASUS A7V8X0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x7fffc0b2 ACPI: BOOT (v001 ASUS A7V8X0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x7fffc030 ACPI: MADT (v001 ASUS A7V8X0x42302e31 MSFT 0x31313031) @ 0x7fffc058 ACPI: DSDT (v001 ASUS A7V8X0x1000 MSFT 0x010b) @ 0x ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0xe408 Allocating PCI resources starting at 8000 (gap: 8000:7ec0) Built 1 zonelists Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda3 vga=0x317 selinux=0 splash=silent resume=/dev/hda1 Initializing CPU#0 PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 65536 bytes) Detected 2083.203 MHz processor. Using pmtmr for high-res timesource Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Memory:
Re: [mythtv-users] How to set channel PIDs
On 15/07/05, Brett Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi sorry if this has been asked before but Im at the end of my whits now. Ive been fiddling around for about 3 weeks trying to get myth working. Firstly I got a semi supported card (dvico fusion plus) one week later got that working. sorta. using tzap and xine (No sound) Anyway figured id go on with myth and cover the sound problem later. Ive now spent 2 weeks on trying to configure tv. Got just about everything else working (dvd's ripping weather rss and browsing) still no tv. Ive read about a thousand howto's and they mostly talk about entering the video and audio pids. Unless Im completely stupid (quite likely these days) I just cant find anywhere to add them now getting desperate as the wife wants to know where the money and time as gone. Ive been using this guide to configure as this seems to be a little more accurate for Australia http://www.users.on.net/~jani/dvico-mythtv-11.html snip Things change, post 0.16, we stopped doing that, now you scan for the channels. options : 0.18.1 Add five/six transports and do a scan of transports. svn: either do a full scan or import a channels.conf file generated via dvbscan -- John ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] How to set channel PIDs
Brett Stevens wrote: Hi sorry if this has been asked before but Im at the end of my whits now. Ive been fiddling around for about 3 weeks trying to get myth working. Firstly I got a semi supported card (dvico fusion plus) one week later got that working. sorta. using tzap and xine (No sound) Anyway figured id go on with myth and cover the sound problem later. Ive now spent 2 weeks on trying to configure tv. Got just about everything else working (dvd's ripping weather rss and browsing) still no tv. Ive read about a thousand howto's and they mostly talk about entering the video and audio pids. Unless Im completely stupid (quite likely these days) I just cant find anywhere to add them now getting desperate as the wife wants to know where the money and time as gone. Ive been using this guide to configure as this seems to be a little more accurate for Australia http://www.users.on.net/~jani/dvico-mythtv-11.html thanks In advance Brett Stevens http://www.users.on.net/~jani/dvico-mythtv-11.html is a good resource, and it got me working. I just got a Twinhan DVB-T card working (in Australia). What I did first was get it working outside of myth. If you have had success with tzap, now use scan to generate a channels.conf file, example... ./scan dvb-t/canberra-au | tee mychannels.conf Scan is one of the standard DVB utilities (see http://www.linuxtv.org/ - maybe download the linuxtv-dvb-apps just to get the readme on scan) The canberra-au example frequency list should be close (for me - just the SBS freq was wrong, but once I corrected that, all went well) The channels.conf file goes in various directories, depending on what app you are using, for example, put a copy in ~/.mplayer and also one in ~/.xine. Another good test for the basic DVB functionality is to fire up kaffeine. If DVB is awake and available, there will be a DVB tab in kaffeine, and it can scan for, and play TV for you (as well as record and timeshift). If it is all working, then when you run mythtv-setup, you can import the channels.conf into the channel setup section. This is where http://www.users.on.net/~jani/dvico-mythtv-11.html#ss11.5 didn't work for me. In the channel setup section where he manually configures the channels, I imported the channels.conf (I think the option to do that was under an advanced button) Must be a feature in later versions of myth - mine is .18.1 The only left to do then is get the tv grabber working. When you have it working and retrieving XML, go into mythtv-setup, set it up as a source, then go back to channel setup, and enter the XML ID for the channels with guide data. I grab data from d1.com.au, and I get program info for all the basic channels. That's a brief rundown, and even recalling that tested my memory. I am gald though, because will need to be able to do it again for myself. If you need further explanation, ask away, I'll try to help. The frustration from my experience, is still fresh in my mind, and I would have been glad of any help myself :-) ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] How to set channel PIDs
John Pullan wrote: snip Things change, post 0.16, we stopped doing that, now you scan for the channels. options : 0.18.1 Add five/six transports and do a scan of transports. svn: either do a full scan or import a channels.conf file generated via dvbscan I just finished a reply myself describing how I did it - and I imported the channels.conf. But yes, I tried the scan, and that worked too. As I already had done the scan using the scan dvb app, it was just easier to import that, as I knew it was working. The transports required are in the example files that come with scan (like the canberra-au in my example) basically # Australia / Canberra / Woden # T freq bw fec_hi fec_lo mod transmission-mode guard-interval hierarchy # ABC T 205625000 7MHz 3/4 3/4 QAM64 8k 1/16 NONE # Seven T 17750 7MHz 2/3 NONE QAM64 8k 1/8 NONE # Nine T 191625000 7MHz 3/4 NONE QAM64 8k 1/16 NONE # Ten T 21950 7MHz 3/4 1/2 QAM64 8k 1/16 NONE # SBS T 54350 7MHz 2/3 NONE QAM64 8k 1/8 NONE As I said, for me, SBS was a different frequency. I guess it varies around Australia. ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
