[linux-dvb] Re: grr.. Any DVB-T adaptors which work reliably?

2003-06-30 Thread Gregor Lawatscheck
The problem I am facing (and many others it seems) is that the TT DVB-T card falls over constantly and the frontend locks up when you change channel more than a few times. It's not clear if this is a problem with motherboard/powersupply/heat, etc, or whether this card is simply fundamentally flaw

[linux-dvb] Re: grr.. Any DVB-T adaptors which work reliably?

2003-06-30 Thread Robert Schlabbach
From: "Ragnar Sundblad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I have also been thinking of bying a Nova-T to see if I at least > can get better reception with that. There is a possibly new one > called 1.3, which could be studied here: >

[linux-dvb] Re: grr.. Any DVB-T adaptors which work reliably?

2003-06-30 Thread Ragnar Sundblad
--On den 30 juni 2003 22:44 +0100 Edward Wildgoose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just can't get this wretched TT DVB-T 1.2 card to work reliably at all!! Has ANYONE managed to get a DVB-T card working with VDR in a completely reliable way? I have had a bunch of problems with my TT DVB-T 1.2 too. I

[linux-dvb] Re: skystar2

2003-06-30 Thread gigyz
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 17:17:48 +0200 Jan Hendrik Berlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have always troble with this card! I don't know why! > > I want to use linuxtv-dvb-1.0.0-pre3 and skystar2-0.2.tar.gz ! > > vp310.c:23:36: linux/dvb/dvb_frontend.h: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden > (fil

[linux-dvb] Re: grr.. Any DVB-T adaptors which work reliably?

2003-06-30 Thread Edward Wildgoose
> Are you sure your signal is good enough? I find that my set-top-box is > pretty care-free, but my DVB-T cards are *exceptionally* picky about > the signal - they'll click and break-up much more easily. Hmm, that's not a bad idea to check. Is this a reported thing which could cause the arm to c

[linux-dvb] Re: grr.. Any DVB-T adaptors which work reliably?

2003-06-30 Thread Richard Walker
On Monday, June 30, 2003, at 10:44 pm, Edward Wildgoose wrote: Has ANYONE managed to get a DVB-T card working with VDR in a completely reliable way? What did you need to do? The problem I am facing (and many others it seems) is that the TT DVB-T card falls over constantly and the frontend loc

[linux-dvb] grr.. Any DVB-T adaptors which work reliably?

2003-06-30 Thread Edward Wildgoose
OK, so I have bought into the whole idea that digital tv is a great thing. I have a cheepo Freeview box (DVB-T in the UK) which for me at least gives me normal terrestrial TV but at much higher quality. So I would now like to go the next step and build a Tivo type thing and drive the TV using a PC

[linux-dvb] Re: dvb-bt8xx and net device

2003-06-30 Thread André Stein
Hi, /proc/ksyms contains the symbols of all loaded modules I checked again.. yes it contains symbols of all loaded modules but after a reboot the call addresses from the last trace don't match those found in ksyms. They have to be converted in some way using the data from the oops trace.. hmm

[linux-dvb] Re: Trouble with tuning to lo-band

2003-06-30 Thread Gregor Lawatscheck
At 16:08 29/06/2003, you wrote: It sort of appears that I can get anything below 11700 Ghz. Any ideas where to hunt, have allready removed all signal-combiners and diseq-stuff from the cable. I've had a similar problem which went away when I got the skew exactly right, which increased the signal s

[linux-dvb] Re: channels.conf for dvb-t in berlin

2003-06-30 Thread Robert Schlabbach
From: "Holger Waechtler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Robert Schlabbach wrote: > > There is a mistake in your file: > > > > c56:77800:INVERSION_OFF:BANDWIDTH_8_MHZ:FEC_2_3:FEC_NONE:QAM_16:TRANSMI > > SSION_MODE_8K:GUARD_INTERVAL_1_8:HIERARCHY_NONE:161:82 > > > > 778 MHz is channel 59, not 56. Channel

[linux-dvb] skystar2

2003-06-30 Thread Jan Hendrik Berlin
I have always troble with this card! I don't know why! I want to use linuxtv-dvb-1.0.0-pre3 and skystar2-0.2.tar.gz ! vp310.c:23:36: linux/dvb/dvb_frontend.h: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden (file or dictionary not found!) After this message there are many errors and warnings in vp310.c

[linux-dvb] problem: Hauppauge DVB-c 727 and sound

2003-06-30 Thread Gerhard Steiner
Hello, since I am using the driver I am facing the same problem. When I use the downloaded driver there is no sound. If I change the the following line within the function SetVolume in av7110.c from switch (av7110->adac_type) { to switch (0) { it works fine. I am using a Hauppauge

[linux-dvb] Spectral Inversion (was Re: Re: patch for scan (-t bitfield select))

2003-06-30 Thread Robert Schlabbach
From: "Johannes Stezenbach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > But AFAIK there are no DVB-T FE around which have inversion ON, > so I changed it there from AUTO to OFF. Don't cable and terrestrial tuners _always_ spectrally invert the signal, so that the demodulator must have spectral inversion enabled by defa

[linux-dvb] Re: patch for scan (-t bitfield select)

2003-06-30 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Lauri Tischler wrote: > Select output by service, 1=tv, 2=radio, 4=other. > Effective only for -o vdr now. Comitted with changes so that it works for all output formats. > There is some odd effect, I have selected INVERSION_OFF for > 562000 terrestial transmitter, output still gives > INVERSION_A

[linux-dvb] Re: Data returned by read() when doing PES filtering

2003-06-30 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Holger Waechtler wrote: > James Green wrote: > > > >I think all I need to do is read blocks of data from demux0, prepend each > >block with a PES header, and write it to my output file. I tried doing > >this by hand, and also using the mpegtools library. See apps/test/test_tt.c for a useful exampl

[linux-dvb] Best quality output on TV from Linux?

2003-06-30 Thread William R Sowerbutts
Hi all, I've been using a pair of WinTV Nova cards plus my own homebrew software to record MPEG2 video for some time now with truly excellent results. I've been watching on my computer screen using MPlayer and my Matrox G550, but now I'd like to be able to watch the recorded MPEG2 streams on a nor